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What does this expanse murmur to me? What does it say of God? What does it say of belonging in an wasteland? What does it say of formation in the face of the desert wind?
What does this expanse murmur to me? What does it say of God? What does it say of belonging in an wasteland? What does it say of formation in the face of the desert wind? ...
Former B.C. Conservative MP John Weston debunks the myth that Parliamentarians will be sitting on the dock at the lake now that Parliament has recessed for the summer. The hot weather workload makes it vital they, like all Canadians, tend to their physical and mental health, he warns.
This key thought motivated me to launch various initiatives designed to leverage the role of leaders in promoting physical and mental health and fitness Second was National Health and Fitness Day, an occasion when First Nation, provincial, and local governments are invited to proclaim the first Satu...
The moon rises over Your kingdom, well orbed and full, dusty and yet beaming bright.
The moon is painted a dusky purple and I wonder at the stillness and the sense of God-Withness that suddenly feels all around. ...
At a yearly gathering of big-thinking Canadians, Cardus’ Ray Pennings challenges attendees to examine their own ideas about the critical place of religious faith in our common life.
But Pennings identified two key outlooks of long-established Canadians that he contended do a disservice to the reality of religious life in the country, and imperil its foundation of tolerance We’re in the midst, he said, of an attitudinal shift that is flattening out the existing bell curve on whi...
The marsh and sky both look as though they are on fire. Is this what the first flame of the Holy Spirit looked like when it came to the disciples in a small dark room?
Is this what the first flame of the Holy Spirit looked like when it came to the disciples in a small dark room? Was the flame of Pentecost more like a fiery, enveloping mist than a roaring flame? Has it been coming to me again and again? Is it just that I haven’t had the eyes to see it? ...
Lawyer Barry Bussey, who argued as an intervenor in the Trinity Western University hearings last winter, says Canadians must demand their legislatures protect religious freedom from a Supreme Court that seems to have lost its way.
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed with the legal elites and said even though TWU is a private, religious university, and even though the Charter does not apply to it, it must follow “Charter values” – that “amorphous” concept described by Justices Côté and Brown as “the product of the idiosyncrasi...
Senior Researcher Peter Jon Mitchell talks with Convivium about a new report from Cardus Family on data showing a doubling of the number of middle-aged Canadians choosing to cohabitate rather than marry. There are risks, Mitchell says, for the couples and for society.
Convivium: What needs to be done then to help people understand that the choice between cohabitation and marriage can have a real effect on their lives in the years when they need to be preparing for old age? In other words, if you're still doing this when you're in your 50s, tick, tick, tick, right...
Some argue the Supreme Court left the Charter a wreck and a tangle with last week’s Trinity Western decision. But our Editor in Chief Father Raymond de Souza has a former Justice tell him it’s all part of making equality Canada’s concentric centre.
But there is the qualifying, limiting language of Section 1: “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society Yet LeBel, fresh off t...
Actress Mindy Kaling voiced a pro-life message at a recent college commencement when she described letting go of her rigid “life checklist” in order to give birth to a baby girl, writes Cardus Family Program Director Andrea Mrozek.
When I think pro-life talking points, I think freedom; the freedom to live a life that is not scripted or part of a checklist because even an unwanted pregnancy can become wanted I’m talking about a new norm of informal sexual encounters that men and women experience unevenly ...
Today, Convivium is sharing a video sampling of the speech delivered by the Hon. Jason Kenney on May 18, 2018 as well as the fascinating panel discussion that followed between Kenney, Pat Nixon, founder and CEO of Calgary’s Mustard Seed ministry for the socially disadvantaged, and journalist Jen Gerson.
Gerson expands the discussion to include the Church and the role of faith in the dichotomy between State and society ...
Two years ago, on June 1, 2016, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was escorted to her seat in front of Canada’s Senate to explain her government's rationale for Bill C-14, a legislative concoction with a name from a high school chemistry class and the full power to transform Canadian society forever.
Provincial foot-dragging on plans to expand palliative care services substantially is actually denying patients the very choice that was promised in the shift to MAiD, and making it increasingly problematic to discern which patients truly wanted to have a doctor deliberately end their life, Dr “The ...
Most teachers want their students to be excellent. But what does that mean? Convivium is proud to share videos created to learn more about the invaluable work of the winners and nominees of the 2018 John Rozema Teacher Excellence Awards.
In 2016, Cardus Education launched the John Rozema Teaching Excellence Award to discover and celebrate excellent educators within the Ontario Christian school system This Wednesday, over 120 honoured guests and nominees gathered at the Rock Garden of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario ...
Trinity Western University has lost its legal battle to have graduates of its proposed law school accredited by law societies in Ontario and B.C.
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As global soccer fans tune in to the sport’s World Cup in Moscow, Editor-in-Chief Father Raymond de Souza salutes the 40th anniversary of the great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s earth-shaking commencement speech at Harvard University.
Given the suffering he had endured in the Soviet Union, many in the audience expected that the writer’s address would be a stern rebuke to Communist totalitarianism, combined with a paean to Western liberty and democracy Solzhenitsyn made no apology at all for communism, but thought that while addre...
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland argues that freedom itself, not just the subset of religious freedom, is at stake in Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding Trinity Western University.
Of course, the specifics of the Trinity Western case centre on religious freedom Beyond even the religious freedom arguments it has made, that liberty of dissent is what Trinity Western is insisting it must be left free to have, to hold, and to live ...