2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Christian public theology rejects the hubris of worldly wisdom which implies that if God should only be listened to if his input fits into our existing frameworks of solutions There is much good work that is taking place today of first-rate Christian scholarship—and, I might add, also in public theo...
He also loves newspapers, which is why he returned to Postmedia to try to save it from the catastrophic incompetence of its previous owners It failed to include the truth that, at a time of intense content competition among all media forms, some Postmedia papers are being pressed to rake in almost 4...
Conscious of the fact Canada is a rather large country—the entire United Kingdom and its 60 million people fit into a land mass 36% the size of the province of Alberta and its 3.6 million people alone—they were curious to know precisely how far it is between Calgary and Ottawa ...
(Admittedly, since not so long ago Christians were considered a majority in this country, with our laws and public institutions grounded in Judeo-Christian thought, the tragic tale of the North American bison may be more a more apt animal analogy than a sorry salamander saga, but I digress If religi...
Persuasion is integral to a healthy democracy, and persuasion can only take place when you routinely interact with people different than yourself ...
Self-denial and self-sacrifice are not the message of romantic comedies, reality game shows, or Oxygen sitcoms Only those marriages with a firm foundation based on reality will survive ...
"The two (sides) of Quebec are corruption and revolution," he quotes Breton Citing former Laval University professor and labour relations specialist Rejean Breton, Martineau renders Quebecers as infantile, self-obsessed fantasists suckling upon the Nanny State ...
What right do they have to restrict someone else's right to learn? These students who still want to attend classes aren't scabs And now, with news that protesters are preventing other students from attending classes, my kinship has been eclipsed by dismay ...
Convivium contributor Milton Friesen reflects on the beauty, gift, and service that writers and their books bring to the world.
However, I had little doubt, as I walked away from a lively and engaging hour spent contemplating books, that there is a profound service offered to us by people like Miriam Toews who dare to tangle with the intimidating triumvirate of the good, the true, and the beautiful, armed only with words. Yo...
In the words of Father Julian Carron, who led our exercises: "There will be no faithfulness unless there is the question to which Christ is the answer At the end of the spiritual exercises for our fraternity, Father Carron had a concrete suggestion: Start over, every day, until it is not I who live,...
There is, however, a common thread which binds these events into a broader story about the changing face of Canadian politics ...
Meanwhile, two British women are currently involved in a fight with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over their right to wear crosses in their places of work ...
In a town in which National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon mused, "The only way to keep a secret is not to tell anybody," the American government and its executive accomplished the seemingly impossible: total secrecy, giving the president precious time to consider his options, to weigh and verify d...
Alas, even as perspicacious a Christian as my whipper-snapper colleague Brian Dijkema got drawn into the rush to defend William Swinimer, the Nova Scotia high school student who became last week's 15-minute martyr for refusing to remove a T-shirt that said "Life is wasted without Jesus That's been a...
And just like a zinger at the supper table that makes a point, I don't think the occasional article of this sort negates Cardus' credibility as an organization dedicated to convivial conversation in the public square The second issue of Cardus's newest publication enterprise, Convivium, is off the p...