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  • The Job of Jones Avenue

    The Job of Jones Avenue

    Randy Boyagoda

    April 1, 2013

    Fiction from Randy Boyagoda

    "And you know what, sir," Lawrence said to my grandfather, "you see Adam over there, his wife is expecting their sixth child! You should see her, so big! And when my little brother goes home tonight and tells her he got lucky at work today, she'll be so happy for him Lawrence Litvack believed that a...

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  • Batmessiah and Spider-Mensch

    Batmessiah and Spider-Mensch

    Travis D. Smith

    April 1, 2013

    Before there was Wonder Woman (1941), there was Batman (1939). After both of them, there was Spider-Man (1962). But before all of them, Travis Smith informed Convivium Readers in 2013, the world marvelled at Batmessiah and Spider-Mensch.

    Whereas the order that the modern technological project seeks to impose would absolve individuals of the need to practise personal and interpersonal responsibility, responsibility is the central theme of Peter Parker's story When the widowed Aunt May's new fiancé, Nathan Lubensky, and Peter first sp...

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  • The Conversation

    The Conversation

    Don Hutchinson

    April 1, 2013

    The Evangelical Fellowship’s Don Hutchinson on speaking faith in the public square

    DH: The court has taken hate speech out of the jurisdiction of ‘you said something awful that hurt my feelings' and into the jurisdiction of ‘your statement would cause society generally to detest a group of people with which I as an individual am associated Instead of focusing on its weaknesses and...

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  • My Friends the Papal Contenders

    My Friends the Papal Contenders

    John Zucchi

    April 1, 2013

    John Zucchi reflects on his personal friendships with two of the cardinals who might have become pope

    It was seeing the Church come alive in the souls of Marc Ouellet and Angelo Scola that drew me to them and allowed me to enter these friendships, which have lasted as a great gift even though I rarely get the chance to see them now Frustrated, I once turned to Père Marc for an explanation of why peo...

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  • Bullying Religious Freedom

    Bullying Religious Freedom

    Albertos Polizogopoulos

    April 1, 2013

    Manitoba law professor Donn Short wants to “queer” Canadian schools to make them safe for gay pupils. Albertos Polizogopoulos considers the Charter implications for religious freedom

    Following a cursory consideration of the controversy over Ontario's Bill 13, the Accepting Schools Act, and its mandated implementation in Catholic separate schools as well as non-sectarian public schools, Short argues that the common understanding of denominational education rights set out in the C...

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  • On the Table

    On the Table

    Tim McCauley

    April 1, 2013

    Pushing and pulling to political extremes

    As the debate unfolds within these pages about conservative or liberal interpretations of our common life, we must be careful not to slide into extremes, in society and in the churches, of libertines and reactionaries But when liberals become libertines and conservatives, reactionaries, we are in da...

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  • The Chattering Class That is All of Us

    The Chattering Class That is All of Us

    James K.A. Smith

    March 28, 2013

    The "chatter" of this class, I take it, is the constant din of commentary on everything: the need to analyze, dissect, explain, and predict ad infinitum But the situation of incessant commentary and distraction begs for Pascalian analysis: we have Twitter feeds to hide from the disturbing questions ...

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  • Welcoming the End of "Government Compassion"

    Welcoming the End of "Government Compassion"

    Ray Pennings

    March 27, 2013

    But the idea of structuring government involvement in foreign aid so that it coheres with foreign policy and trade objectives, while increasingly relying on non-governmental relief organizations to provide relief to those in need, is one that compels me ...

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  • If I Speak, But Have Not Respect

    If I Speak, But Have Not Respect

    Peter Stockland

    March 26, 2013

    When Tiger bottomed out at 58th place in the world standings, and was stuck in the muck of his own making, John emphatically declared him "finished" as a force in golf In golf, there are hackers, there are inept fanatics (hi, mom!), there are very good amateur players (Peter Menzies, call the Cardus...

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  • Standing Horn to Horn

    Standing Horn to Horn

    Brian Dijkema

    March 25, 2013

    One of the points of collective bargaining—indeed the key point of collective bargaining—is that it is intended to replace the patchwork of individual employment contracts in a workplace with one contract, negotiated by the union, on behalf of all employees If the collective agreement focuses too mu...

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  • Less Power, More Flourishing

    Less Power, More Flourishing

    Brian Dijkema

    March 22, 2013

    Might a union movement which seeks social, political, and financial power, rather than seeking human flourishing and fulfilment in work, be dead before it even begins? Perhaps what is needed is less talk about how to expand or maintain power, but a re-evaluation of why we work and why it's good for ...

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  • Small Things Done With Great Love

    Small Things Done With Great Love

    John Seel

    March 21, 2013

    and Rethinking Faith, categorizes our children as falling into three distinct groups: prodigals or those who have lost their convictions, nomads or those who are disaffected from the church, and exiles or those who are increasingly living their callings with tension And perhaps, just perhaps, this k...

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  • Candid Discussions Worth Having

    Candid Discussions Worth Having

    Ray Pennings

    March 20, 2013

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  • The Connorian Oeuvre: A Tribute to Stompin' Tom

    The Connorian Oeuvre: A Tribute to Stompin' Tom

    Peter Stockland

    March 19, 2013

    Long before "The Hockey Song" propelled him to Canadian earworm status, I was an apostle of Stompin' Tom Connors and a fierce advocate of the late, great Prince Edward Islander's elevation to poet laureate Can you name one literary artist in Canadian history who would have the sheer guts—never mind ...

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  • Green Shoots of Humanity

    Green Shoots of Humanity

    Brian Dijkema

    March 18, 2013

    What more can be said when a state wishes to stomp on even the green shoots of humanity in the face of death? It would appear that suppression is not just saved for those wanting democracy; Iran's suppression of the grief that arises from a fate to which we are all bound is a suppression of somethin...

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Convivium was a project of Cardus 2011-2022

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