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All that is needed to join the College and to be eligible for the Senate is a library card, a willingness to build a reputation in the College for cogent argument, and the stamina to read legislation Moreover, constitutional reform would be required to limit the period of appointment to the Senate r...
It comes as no surprise that Beyoncé, among other celebrities and politicians, has partnered with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez on their new campaign to ban the word bossy Instead of worrying about semantics and being politically correct, I would applaud seei...
The argument for this deduction is that the charity is doing a public good and hence, deserves public support With a 30 percent credit in place, a taxpayer who decides to donate $100 to a charitable organization is concluding that a greater good will come from $170 given to the government and charit...
Revelation overturns tradition and whatever "plausibility structures" we have in place, piercing through them and bowling us over with an "experience" of God He over-estimates it because he seems to imagine a kind of revelation that overwhelms our social embeddedness, as if it had to overcome our im...
The question that Linker in particular is asking, with and of Taylor, is this: Is it still possible to experience conversion in our "secular" age? Is religious experience possible in a disenchanted world? According to Linker's reading, Taylor argues "that in some important sense late modernity is ...
Yet the fact that many in Russia would like to overthrow Putin, while many in North America are apathetic to the takeover of Crimea, suggest that understandings are in no way as clear cut between East and West as our Western media (or Russia’s for that matter) might like to project In fact, as Andre...
Iconic Canadian journalist Rex Murphy appeared at a Hill Family Lecture Series event with Convivium publisher Peter Stockland in Vancouver March 6, 2014.
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The question is whether social conservatives can resist their anger, "turn the other cheek" towards their cultural conquerors, and embody a culture of forgiveness and grace in a context where these are in such short supply ...
We quickly learned that our approach to creating social programs and charitable environments for people with disabilities isn't going to work in a developing community ...
Furthermore, Catholics engaged in ecumenical dialogue and seeking to affirm a common religious culture, as Douthat does, do have to contend with the notion that the Protestant Reformation is an unavoidable accommodation at best, and an essential member of the Bellocian Great Heresies De Souza and af...
But if all this exploratory research anesthetizes us to the fact that this world is more a playground than cubicle, maybe it’s time to wake up and see the world, again and again, with the insatiable eyes of a child. But why? If a child’s delight is really a product of ignorance, shouldn’t this be ea...
Hill Family Lecture Series hosted New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in conversation with Convivium editor-in-chief Fr. Raymond J. de Souza February 28, 2014, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, speaks about Popes St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis and what they teach us about engaging our culture, especially on the university campus.
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Why are we so fascinated by these stories? Why would someone take a picture of their broken hand and display it with as much pride as a gold medal? Why so much pride about pain? ...
Cardus: My impression from watching the convention is that the federal Liberals are a lot like the Latvians—not quite ready for the gold medal hockey game but surprisingly feisty and with a lot more game than most people thought JM: Cardus is a Christian-based think tank, and I don't know that we've...