2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
What Preston calls the cultural imperialism of missionaries he compares against the work of present day human rights NGOs, which certainly present certain perspectives—on the human person, and their dignities and rights—as universal, and push, sometimes force, changes in law and cultural practice in...
There is no simple solution, and all of the suggestions raised by the Globe last week have merit and deserve discussion, but at a most fundamental level, addressing our democratic deficit starts with the most elementary of principles which we all learned way back in Grade 9—the different roles and r...
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair suggests that CIDA's partnering with religious organizations, specifically Christian ones, contributes to a Canadian foreign policy marked by "more religion, less nutrition ...
Cardus: Do you think that he would have compared what his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, went through with his incredible Polish toughness and refusal to concede for one moment? Would he have seen that as much as we admired John Paul II for his toughness, he did become a visual symbol of a Church t...
Indeed, if it is to be the case that Canadians expect a diversity of intellectual and religious traditions, if we are to expect the Kantians, as well as the Muslims, the utilitarians and libertarians, as well as the Christians, to enfold the secular principles of Canadian society, then we must encou...
It would seem that Anaya chose the satisfaction of truth over the glory of victory Fernández Anaya quickly caught up with him, but instead of exploiting Mutai's mistake to speed past and claim an unlikely victory, he stayed behind and, using gestures, guided the Kenyan to the line and let him cross ...
When we do that, it seems clear that any Christian would of course side with Valjean, mourning the tragic fact that Javert has no room for grace or forgiveness in his worldview Let's first resist the temptation to read this as an allegory of salvation, with personifications of Grace and Law in Valje...
What struck me in contrasting that long ago episode with Eddie's response was not the juxtaposition of strength against weakness but the difference in the vocabulary available then to my mother, an ordinary citizen, and now even to an advice columnist in Canada's national newspaper Rather than upbra...
Regarding young master Campbell and the 2 x 4, Dad's instructions were: "Next time he tries that, punch him in the nose ...
Meral argues that Christian advocacy in particular has grown a great deal in the past decade for persecuted Christians, and while this is important and laudable, it weighs the risk of unintentionally ignoring the suffering of other religious groups ...
Prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, and the obvious manifestations of diseases like Parkinson's are hardly the things that come to mind when one thinks of beauty and Hawaii vacations ...
Now, of course, the private property fetishists and anti-union nasty boys will join in shrill chorus to counter that people are entitled to make whatever profit they can from land they legally own; that the economic sclerosis caused by Stanford's masters in Big Labour is properly to blame for the lo...
I recall wondering how the "system" could just plunk a woman who had drowned her children back into the neighbourhood and not offer some form of resource for the rest of us—at least those who didn't have a church to go to ...
Maybe the very poor are disabled and are unable to work, and therefore share in the benefit that comes as a result of overall increased profits from quinoa Wendell Berry, a true prophetic voice, writes that "the global economy does not exist to help communities and localities of the globe ...
How much have Canadians figured out about religious accommodation and healthy society? Is our own house in order? This week the right of Trinity Western University, an evangelical school in British Columbia, to maintain community standards that define marriage as being between a man and a woman came...