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In May, Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland participated alongside Leahy in the Bridging the Secular Divide conference ...
Cardus Work and Economics Program Director Brian Dijkema reflects on the business of shalom.
In last week's Comment article, Cardus Senior Fellow Paul Williams noted that "the primary biblical motif for redemption in the economic realm is 'Jubilee'" and that "the social goal of this biblical vision is not economic growth or efficiency but relational peace or shalom ...
We accept this from our politicians and take it as a fact of life and yet if we acted this way at home or in our jobs or in other settings, our relationships and these institutions would rapidly deteriorate ...
According to the Wall Street Journal, the actual time in baseball when "everyone on the field is running around looking for something to do (balls in the air and runner advancement attempts)" takes five minutes and forty-seven seconds during a three-hour-plus game Still, much of what the WSJ discoun...
Like all nurses who surpass duty and service, we too can nurture and love others to better health. Yet my sister responded body and heart to the nurse who called her name softly, and asked before she commenced her care and the monitoring of her vital signs ...
Faith makes us appreciate the architecture of human relationships because it grasps their ultimate foundation and definitive destiny in God, in his love, and thus sheds light on the art of building; as such it becomes a service to the common good This Protestant is deeply grateful for the witness of...
Historically, Canadian politics has divided more along regional, linguistic, and ethnic lines with a much less pronounced economic class division in voting patterns than would be typical in Europe or even the United States Recognizing current trends, it is incumbent on all those who shape the public...
The idea that Vancouver is a great place to live is predicated on the misbegotten mythology that it is a place people can afford to live The first is that Vancouver is a great place to live ...
I appreciate Jacobs' insightful reflections on urban versus suburban churches, but I think he missed Renn's larger point, which is that suburbs just don't have much going on in the way of sacred civic space, where a person can contemplate his or her place in the created order as a citizen, not just ...
When the northern Ontario Aboriginal community of Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency in 2011 because its houses were falling apart, it was analogous to the social state of emergency that exists on many Aboriginal reserves However, a recent report by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Developmen...
In fact, I find myself celebrating American patriotism on this day, acknowledging the greatness of the country that is Canada's closest friend and neighbour, even as I share my colleague's concern about the current state of the union As with all of our loves, this needs to be a rightly ordered love ...
In a lovely, reflective article by Charles McGrath, who identifies himself as Munro's first editor at the New Yorker Magazine in the 1970s, Munro confirms that a lifetime of short story writing has come to an end In fact, between the publication of her first book and the sixth that she produced as s...
In other words, let's have less debate about whether Acts condones socialism or affirms free markets, and more about what the Holy Spirit tells us in Scripture about how we should act economically ...
Which is why, however sympathetic I might be to the cause of environmental protection, I can't help but feel that these protests are as much an exercise in catharsis as they are in effecting change ...
Some months later, Pardy filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, alleging that both Earle and the restaurant discriminated against her on the basis of her sexual orientation Earle appealed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia which upheld the Tribunal's decision and ...