2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
So, is it that the 1812 celebration has naught to do with the turning of the calendar page, and everything to do with the federal Conservatives' fetishistic ardor for the Union Jack, Westminster, and other such sepia-toned Britishisms? If true, why not say so forthrightly rather than futzing around ...
The problem, as our president noted, is that libertarians have absorbed the logic of subsidiarity and made a snappier brand out of it, poisoning the well for non-libertarian thinkers ...
I marvel that, even in the midst of the long loneliness that many of these street entrepreneurs are immersed in, they exhibit a dignity—no, a reflection of God—that comes from doing work, and doing it well ...
TV's darkest political drama is so ripe with corruption we're lucky it's not on smell-o-vision.
For all the fuss about Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom, this fall's runaway political favourite, a counterdrama is unfolding in the more obscure, certainly more explicit, Chicago-centred drama, Boss The familiar trope of a system that demands sacrifice for the greater good, of a system of human design that ...
The second part of a series on the future of religious communities in Canada looks at what is being done to help future generations remember the communities even as they fade from fallible memory.
Plantinga's point about narratives can help us understand what is going on as communities of religious plan for their memory to live on and become part of the narrative of a society that might have little or no direct memory of them I have had the pleasure of visiting Edmonton three times in the pas...
Mapping the multifaith community that grew when Vancouver Buddhists and Christians linked arms in peaceful protest.
Perforce, a dozen of us wrote letters to the gallery director arguing that in a heavily multicultural community such as Vancouver, unless the city's major publicly funded gallery was willing to offend all major faith groups equally and not simply Christians, then the expensive American photographs s...
Social conservatism finished? Only in the pipe dreams of those seeking progressive Heaven.
In this essay, I propose, first, to assess some of the assumptions underlying Tandt's position; second, to show how the progressive liberal view seeks to replace the Judeo-Christian tradition that underlies a good part of Canada's history and institutions; and third, to point to some of the problems...
An Aussie ex-hippie playwright finds spiritual welcome at a Montreal United Church.
Rodgers sees parallels between the marginalization of the anglophone community in a nationalist Quebec and the isolation that many Christians and other people of faith feel in the hypersecularist culture of a province where identity politics are the order of the day, leaving very little room for cul...
Why loneliness is always part of tyranny.
Friendship as the form of politics is predicated on three Aristotelian insights: 1) the highest kind of friendship, virtue friendship, is a practice whose moral goal transcends politics; 2) a citizenry unpractised in virtue friendship is incapable of habitually practising justice, and therefore, of ...
Bringing the glory of cathedral windows to light on Christmas envelopes.
The stamps would feature four stained glass windows from the St I also found that stained glass windows are a lot like stamp designs: God is in the details and it is in those details, sometimes very small, that we can make the most impact Mary's on a stamp and proud that people across Canada would b...
I was willing to wrestle an angel to keep my grandfather’s gift.
As a full-throated choir sang a traditional Hungarian Christmas carol, "Mennyböl az Angyal" ("Angel from Heaven"), a memorial banner hand embroidered by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Budapest, depicting the four saints Mary, Stephen, Emery and Ladislaus, was carried down the nave My grandfathe...
Explaining the constitutional perils of the Accepting Schools Act.
EM: For legal process, there are various options: A party could bring a court challenge on the basis that the legislation violates section 93 de-nominational school rights EM:The majority of the legislation is within the jurisdiction of the provincial government and does not infringe on the rights o...
Our approach to the end of life helps us see it as part of the same gift we received at birth.
He received pain medication and muscle relaxants for "terminal restlessness," and for the next few days, my sister and I watched as the palliative treatment he received eased him peacefully to his death But because there is a lack of information about these issues, and death is the subject everyone ...
A self-described 'dipstick' who still isn't sure why God chose him, Paul Henderson has spent the past four decades making the ministering of the Gospel his goal in life.
C: There is a very explicit Christian message and parallel in that, isn't there? God loves the world When He knew that I was ready to be teachable, then He got into my life and it was still two years before I said, 'Lord, I really understand this and I want to become a Christian But I have never onc...
Diane Weber Bederman urges us to think again about Yad Vashem.
In January 1943, Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, forwarded a request for the Vatican to inquire whether neutral countries could grant asylum to Jews, to inform the German government that the Palestine Jewish Agency had 5,000 immigration certificates available, and to ask Vatican Radio...