Faith and Festivity

John von Heyking

October 1, 2014

John Von Heyking traces the classical roots of the Calgary Stampede and finds that even Muslims celebrating Ramadan are treated fairly at the fair

Moreover, the Calgary Stampede is, in important respects, something rarely found in modern civilization: a civic festival, or a festival of the civil religion of a specific area, namely Calgary and southern Alberta Cross and Archibald McLean (the so-called Big Four), inaugurated the first Calgary St...

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A Publisher Who Took a Stand

Peter Stockland

September 26, 2014

The subject of his praise was Link Byfield, former publisher of Alberta Report magazine, policy activist, and politician "You integrated faith with things the world tries to keep separate," the former Reform Party leader and now silver eminence of the conservative movement said this week ...

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The Art of Faithful Persuasion

Ray Pennings

September 23, 2014

this month, Ray Pennings asked Os Guinness about this topic ...

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Democracy's Finest Hour?

Peter Stockland

September 19, 2014

All, of course, were very much on the mind of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko when he addressed the Parliament of Canada this week They did so not as a result of any kind of noblesse oblige on the part of tenderhearted Canadians already here, but because they accepted, very early, the necessity...

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Democracy’s Finest Hour?

Peter Stockland

September 19, 2014

Peter Stockland on Scotish, Ukrainian, and Canadian democracies.

All that really needs to be said is being said about the necessity of democratic politics being the default politics for the human condition ...

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Why Aren't Conservatives Funny?

Doug Sikkema

September 18, 2014

This month, with the launch of The Flipside, a show trying to be a conservative version of the Colbert Report, perhaps we've come full-swing into a brave new world where conservatives are the new outsiders, toppling left-wing progressives as they increasingly move into central positions of power and...

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Why Cardus*U?

Matthew Bokma

September 17, 2014

I’m not often asked, “Why did you attend high school?” or “Why did you earn your degree?” But leading up to our launch this past Monday, many people have asked me, “Why Cardus*U?” The very question suggests that the questioner understands that Cardus*U is a learning program that differs fundamentall...

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Solutions to the education dispute in British Columbia

Ray Sawatsky

September 9, 2014

Maybe something like 7 percent over 5 years or 8 percent over 6 years would get it done? For the future, why not establish an independent salary arbitration body for teachers the way BC Premier Gordon Campbell did a few years ago for MLA salaries? An independent body can weigh all the factors involv...

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The Conversation Precedes Us

Doug Sikkema

September 5, 2014

Education exists to help make the best sense of the long, complex, and tangled skeins that are the conversations you are now listening in on, waiting for your chance to jump in ...

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New Cardus Education Survey to be released

Naomi Biesheuvel

September 4, 2014

The event will feature Cardus's Ray Pennings, along with Sean Corcoran of New York University; Kathy Jamil, founder of Islamic School's League of America; and Ashley Berner of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy ...

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The Haunting Presence of Time in Linklater’s Boyhood

Doug Sikkema

August 26, 2014

Given the temporal scope of the film, it’s no real surprise that time is one of the dominant themes of the movie and in one of the last scenes, just as Mason is about to go off to college, his mother makes the most significant (in my humble opinion) remark of the film This transcendent reality also ...

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Expand the Inner Circles

Brian Dijkema

August 21, 2014

Which causes me to ask: what type of advice would someone like Jacobs or George offer to those who doesn't share their faith commitments, and by extension, don't participate in a religious community like church? I realize that these are not their primary audience, but what "different body, with diff...

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Inside the Islamic State

Doug Sikkema

August 14, 2014

After watching these brief clips on the Islamic State, I reread Jonathan Chaplin's piece about his kind of Christian nation ...

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Archbishop Chaput on speaking the truth in love

Raymond J. de Souza

August 12, 2014

Fr. de Souza talked with the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, at the Faith in the Public Square Conference in Toronto. Archbishop Chaput shared his advice for believers who lack the confidence to share their faith with others.

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What Anonymity Does to Communities

Doug Sikkema

August 8, 2014

I'm not saying that Debra Harrel's decision was a good one, and that parents at the park shouldn't have been concerned, but what kind of world allows the first plan of action to be delivering a mother from your neighborhood to the anonymizing forces of the State? It seems to me that this would be a ...

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