Magi and Imagination

Austin Mardon with Brett Fawcett

December 1, 2015

In the towering scientific figures of Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, Austin Mardon and Brett Graham Fawcett find the complementary halves of the religious spirit.

Whereas Newton made the universe static and left a chink of incomprehensibility open for God to slip in, Einstein helped make the universe fluid – yet he still sensed an underlying order to it While the scientific consensus takes the side of Bohr, the Catholic philosopher and apologist Peter Kreeft ...

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Publisher's Letter: Abundant Gifts

Peter Stockland

December 1, 2015

Only a religious yearning pushes the Magi across the gulf between need and desire, past the voices singing folly, to the place where the very act of leaving their gifts opens them to a gift of infinitely greater richness: the newborn face of the Salvation of the world But the desire to live as fully...

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Global Warming and Group Think

Peter Stockland

November 30, 2015

On the eve of the Paris climate conference, a group of the world’s economic one per cent, taking the two per cent temperature increase as a given, announced they will apply some of their collective $350 billion in net worth to concrete research projects for clean energy development In place of polit...

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Community With Your Coffee

Stephanie Schoenhoff

November 25, 2015

541 Eatery and Exchange in Hamilton offers its neighbourhood delicious, affordable food along with a deeper sense of community. 

The message made Jenn think about how 541 is part of God’s story in this community, and how this is just one of so many people whose lives have changed because of this place,” It reminded Jenn of the way God has been moving in the community as staff and volunteers offer their hands to serve ...

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Paris: Avoiding the Knee-Jerk Reaction

Ray Pennings

November 23, 2015

Just as Christians of a previous era were challenged to, on the basis of their own Scriptures, explain what their faith meant regarding issues of slavery, today’s adherents of Islam can be challenged both internally and in the context of multi-faith dialogue, to explain their religion’s views regard...

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Faith Creates a Neighborhood

Peter Stockland

November 23, 2015

What most Ottawa residents don’t know about the city's first suburb The Glebe, is that it was first church land set aside for sustaining the minister and the congregation of St. Andrew’s, an old cathedral on the corner of Bank Street.

Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Ottawa underscores the indelible narrative link between faith and the founding of Canada ...

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What's next for Canada's Office of Religious Freedom?

Robert Joustra

November 19, 2015

The time is therefore ripe for the incoming government to expand the work of the Office of Religious Freedom, increase its funding and interrelationships with other like-minded allied organizations, and to unapologetically put human rights at the centre of Canadian foreign affairs Finally, and third...

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Propelling Social Change

Stephanie Schoenhoff

November 18, 2015

From the exterior, passersby might not see why Switchback Cyclery on Queen East in Toronto is one of the City’s most meaningful bike shops.

Alan Beattie, Executive Director of Sanctuary, says that Switchback responds to one of our primary God-given human desires, which is to do meaningful work— an opportunity that many street-involved people are never afforded ...

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Justin, Listen to Your Father

Ray Sawatsky

November 17, 2015

"There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns," Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said when Canada was terrorized by the FLQ crisis 45 years ago Did those behind this movement not know with whom they were dealing? Or, much worse, did they know...

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Bringing Fresh Faith North

Stephanie Schoenhoff

November 5, 2015

Carluci Dos Santos has been hugely encouraged by watching the Church of Latin America come North.

“I see immigrants coming [to Canada] bringing a very fresh faith, people who believe in the power of prayer, the power of God’s intervention in history—to change the course of history—personal history, and everything around us,” says Dos Santos ...

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Festival of Lights

Peter Stockland

November 5, 2015

More than a story of arrival and survival. It lights the way for the flourishing of enduring faith in Canada.

However, a precursor event this week is emblematic of the deep roots the Sikh faith has developed in Canada, and the changes Sikh people have brought to Canadian society ...

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Faith Across Faiths

Peter Stockland

November 5, 2015

Most appealing to me (is) the concept of mercy and love, not only for those inside the religions but for those outside.

"I'm not the typical face of Holocaust education or the Jewish community," Kim is quoted in the CJN ...

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A Man Loyal to Canada and to His Faith

Raymond J. de Souza

November 5, 2015

Kevin Vickers has demonstrated that serving Canada and serving God are not mutually exclusive.

Kevin Vickers, a servant of Canada and disciple of Christ, has lived a life made possible by the grandness of our history and the broad horizons of our faith Remarks to introduce Ambassador Kevin Vickers, on the occasion of the launch of Faith in Canada 150 ...

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How Trudeau’s Election Complicates the Narrative

Ray Pennings

October 20, 2015

But will the change be as dramatic as the numbers suggest? The Liberal slogan—“Real Change”—certainly has tangible policy and personnel implications for how the federal government will impact Canada but as a think-tank focused on the renewal of social architecture, it is valuable to ask what the imp...

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Time to End the Five-Minute Fundamentalism

Peter Stockland

October 7, 2015

For starters, if this is truly the first digital federal election, I truly hope it is also the last truly digital election in which candidates are forced out of local election races for words posted on Facebook or other social media five, six, two or seven years ago “For the first time, one in every...

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