Blurring
February 5, 2019
The sky doesn't seem as expansive in this moment, but a blanket with its edges tucked smoothly.
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In, Out, Out, In
February 5, 2019
In, out, just like the breath that fills our bodies. Out, in, the sacred returns again and again to touch that space deep within.
Surfers dot the shore interspersed between the constancy of the lapping waves ...
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End of Day
February 5, 2019
The hike was long, and had grown urgent. Would we reach the peak before we lost the sun?
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In the Wind, In the Waves
February 5, 2019
And as I hurtle towards the shore I feel Him here with me, His presence among the wind and the waves, that very particular curl of the tide.
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Dust of His Feet
February 5, 2019
Anger seems a faraway notion on this calm shore, but perhaps the clouds are gathering.
Anger seems a faraway notion on this calm shore, but perhaps the clouds are gathering ...
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Faith Among the Seconds
Joyce Deng
February 4, 2019
Through often painful moments listening to a broken man at an Ottawa drop-in centre, Joyce Deng began to hear God’s voice in the briefest of encounters.
Through my time spent with the community, God invited me to humbly walk alongside its members in some hard, deep pits of brokenness Through my interactions with Pat, God interceded, and through the opportunities of hearing his story, it became a vessel of seeing His presence amidst brokenness Throug...
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Faith Among the Seconds
Joyce Deng
February 4, 2019
Through often painful moments listening to a broken man at an Ottawa drop-in centre, Joyce Deng began to hear God’s voice in the briefest of encounters.
Through my time spent with the community, God invited me to humbly walk alongside its members in some hard, deep pits of brokenness Through my interactions with Pat, God interceded, and through the opportunities of hearing his story, it became a vessel of seeing His presence amidst brokenness Throug...
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Worshipping Ourselves
Travis D. Smith
February 4, 2019
In Daniel Mahoney’s The Idol of Our Age, reviewer Travis Smith finds a commendably tough-minded but charitable critique of the Christian Church’s slide into the worship of man rather than God.
At his harshest, Mahoney calls Francis “thoroughly blind to the multiple ways in which the humanitarian secular religion subverts authentic Christianity,” observing that “his unqualified appeals for us to ‘change the world’ have a tendency to ‘immanentize’ the Gospel, to emphasize this-worldly ameli...
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Let’s Really Talk
Raymond J. de Souza
January 31, 2019
Reviving his popular “Small Talk” feature from the print version of Convivium, Editor-in-Chief Father Raymond de Souza bemoans the death of local news, critiques the pornographication of the Super Bowl, and argues for setting down our iPhones to speak face-to-face again.
Now it is part of a chain with emaciated budgets and little capacity to cover Kingston, let alone the world abroad There are not a few voices – more anecdotal than backed by the comprehensive academic studies that take many years to produce – that think our screen time may be contributing to a deter...
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Sport’s Search for Meaning
Kyle Ferguson
January 30, 2019
As millions of NFL fans prepare to watch the New England Patriots take on the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday for their historic sixth Super Bowl win, Kyle Ferguson writes that sport is a spiritual matter far beyond the mere score sheet.
Instead, meaning and its relation to one’s sporting activity should be an essential grounding point for athletes, especially given the increasing challenges in sport of the “win at all cost” mentality, the corporatization of sport, and the pressures athletes face to break records and to entertain th...
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Who Dares Pan This Panther?
Hannah Marazzi
January 29, 2019
Last week, Editor-in-Chief Father Raymond de Souza dismissed Oscar-nominated Black Panther as a cinematic sop to Hollywood guilt and greed. Tut-tut, retorts reviewer Hannah Marazzi. It’s a marvel of movie-making beauty that leaves viewers vibrant with its message of mercy.
Set in the fictional land of Wakanda, Black Panther is the story of young would-be king T’Challa who must fight to ascend the throne of the most technologically advanced society in the world But at heart, Black Panther is a film that asks its viewers to reflect on the importance of mercy over might ...
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Unpacking Marie Kondo
Darcie Dow
January 29, 2019
Convivium contributor Darcie Dow notes that if we attend to the Netflix “Tidying Up” star’s message of respect for all creation, we can toss out the fear that too often clutters up our faith.
In my church, we talk about how God has left clues pointing to Jesus in other religions A recent article by Japanese-American Margaret Diloway in the Huffington Post shed some light on the strange-to-us practices of greeting a home, waking up books, and thanking clothing articles ...
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Observing the Everywhere
Ben Faber
January 28, 2019
The mid-January death of beloved American poet Mary Oliver prompted an outpouring of joy at her work and mourning her loss. But, says Redeemer University College’s Ben Faber, it should renew in readers the spirit in which she wrote: patient attention to creation’s mysteries.
No contemporary writer better exemplifies this dual outcome—learning to read and to regard words and world responsibly—than Mary Oliver It is equally true of each of the poems in the seven-part The Leaf and the Cloud as it is of the rest of Oliver’s work: she shows us what to see, how to see it, and...
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Hollywood’s Guilt of Many Colours
Raymond J. de Souza
January 25, 2019
Father Raymond de Souza notes Tinseltown has nominated the mediocre Black Panther for Best Picture because it’s green with racial guilt.
Now Black Panther has its turn, given what Hollywood could never quite give to Star Wars, an Oscar nomination Black Panther got the nomination because Hollywood wishes to congratulate itself for being clever enough to do a little progressive preening while executing the prime directive of making mon...
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Housing the Soul
Rebekah Ann Lamb
January 23, 2019
In the last article in Convivium’s series on the meaning of home, Rebekah Lamb surveys the rich array of literature and theological thinking that take a home as metaphor for the drama and implications of the soul’s choices.
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