To Stop and Not Stay
Vashishtha Jogi
January 30, 2018
Encounter the sacred at mountain's tip. Bring a piece of God's Withness back down to the valley. We have come to seek His face.
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Through the Looking Glass
Josh Calabrese
January 30, 2018
That we would be granted the lens of faith with which to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Amen.
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Spice of Life
Andrea Mrozek
January 29, 2018
Even in the industrial décor aisles of Costco, Cardus Family director Andrea Mrozek discovers, lurk hopeful encounters able to produce a lifetime of meaning.
No, young man, I said while asking his embarrassed companion to help me in my cinnamon search, this idea was not going to earn him a million dollars The million dollar idea young man replied slowly ...
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Funny Like Judges
Erik deLange
January 26, 2018
Martin McDonagh’s latest film brilliantly blends the Bible and pitch black comedy, writes Convivium reviewer Erik DeLange.
If the book of Judges can find a comedy of errors amidst a brutal murder, surely there is room for the truth of McDonagh’s humour to illuminate the corruption of middle America There is a brutal and haunting scene in the middle of Martin McDonagh’s latest film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missou...
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A Novel View of the Gospel
Lloyd Mackey
January 26, 2018
Convivium reviewer Lloyd Mackey finds David Kitz brings a dramatist’s gifts to his novel which re-tells the Passion story in The Soldier Who Killed a King.
(For background purposes: the implicit meaning of the Christian denomination of which Kitz is a part and a minister – the eight million member International Church of the Foursquare Gospel is couched in the firm belief in Jesus as Savior, Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, Healer and Soon-coming King Ki...
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Breath Breaking Forth
Hannah Marazzi, with Neil Josephson, Sharol Josephson
January 25, 2018
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks with organizers of the annual three-day Break Forth One Gospel festival that will draw thousands of worshippers to Edmonton, Alberta this weekend
Neil Josephson: We're fairly new to Break Forth One, and certainly to our leadership position, so we spent the last couple of years really kind of honing and refining the vision, that Arlen and Elsa Salte, the original founders, undertook Break Forth One exists to unify, serve, equip, and empower th...
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Bidding Brown A Welcome Goodbye
Raymond J. de Souza
January 25, 2018
Convivium’s Father Raymond de Souza says Patrick Brown’s departure as Ontario Conservative leader is cause for huzzahs from all who care about political integrity in our common life.
The PC Party, having heard the sexual misconduct allegations against him last night, handed Brown more than his hat When I wrote about Brown in 2016, I had no knowledge about the alleged sexual misconduct that led to his resignation as PC leader last night ...
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Will the State Hug Me When I Die?
Andrew P.W. Bennett
January 24, 2018
Father Deacon Andrew Bennett, director of the Cardus law program, argues Canadians of religious faith must be left free to choose what procedures their healthcare institutions provide.
Then why does the power of choice not extend to Canadians who want to choose not to make such choices? Why can they not choose faith-consistent healthcare that rejects abortion, euthanasia, and the fluidity of gender, and instead offers care that recognizes what true dignity and true compassion is: ...
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It’s Wrong To Call Abortion A Right
Andrea Mrozek with Faye Sonier
January 23, 2018
Citing the Supreme Court’s historic Morgentaler decision, Andrea Mrozek and Faye Sonier show why Prime Minister Trudeau gets so-called abortion rights so wrong.
This is a far cry from the claim that the Morgentaler decision established a right to abortion or that advocating for legislators to develop laws to protect the pre-born child is somehow anti-Charter Gavigan of Osgoode Hall Law School echoes the idea that the Morgentaler decision did not create a ri...
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Son Set On The Charter?
Brian Bird
January 22, 2018
With the Canada Summer Jobs controversy as evidence, B.C. lawyer and PhD candidate in law, Brian Bird, sees Justin Trudeau distorting his father’s cherished Charter of Rights to justify State erosion of basic freedoms. After reading this article, check out Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett's take on these issues on CTV News Channel's Power Play with Don Martin.
The mission of a bill of rights such as the Charter is to shield citizens from actions of the State that violate human dignity It is troubling to see the Charter, which exists to shield Canadians from the power of the State, being deployed by a Prime Minister to declare State orthodoxy on a contesta...
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Trudeau Versus Trudeau
Peter Stockland
January 19, 2018
In an interview this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about his insistence on proper conduct between the sexes on Parliament Hill and, by extension, among Canadians generally. Peter Stockland examines what it means for a son to grapple with what his father catalyzed.
What limitations does he face as the son of the father who catalyzed the abolition of age-old understandings handed down from the God of Abraham? And what are we to do with the legacy of the former Prime Minister Trudeau who left us the ill fortune of having to just stand and watch this very difficu...
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Battlefield Of Our Hearts
Raymond J. de Souza
January 18, 2018
This December Convivium's editor in chief, Father Raymond J. de Souza delivered this inspiring address to over 900 faithful young people of faith gathered in Ottawa to ring in the new year together at CCO's Rise Up.
When that arm went to Goa, who could have imagined that almost 500 years later it would come to Canada to be welcomed by the descendants of those St Francis met, who are doing so much good for the spread of the Gospel in this new mission country So at my magazine, Convivium, which is Canada’s digita...
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What’s Not Canada?
Raymond J. de Souza
January 18, 2018
Convivium’s editor in chief asks why more care wasn’t put into investigating a young girl’s tale about her sliced hijab – for her sake and for Canada’s
Who knows why Kwahlah lied about what happened? Did an 11-year-old and her little brother concoct an ill-conceived prank on the way to school that got out of hand? Was the little brother rough housing, as little brothers do, and tear the hijab accidently, causing the kids to cobble together a cover ...
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Diving Into Divine Community
Beth Davis, with Nell O'Leary, Hannah Marazzi
January 17, 2018
Today Convivium sits down with Beth Davis and Nell O'Leary of Blessed Is She, a Catholic women’s community committed to deepening a life of prayer, daily Scripture devotionals, and creating a supportive sisterhood that stretches across North America.
C: Blessed Is She facilitates retreats, regional groups, and workshops, bringing women who have connected to this vibrant online community together in person BD & NOL: Because of the prevalence of that "highlights reel," young women of faith share about their struggle to be authentically themselves ...
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Fixing Canada’s Costco Colleges
Bethany Osborne and Perry Glanzer
January 16, 2018
Two compelling voices from academia respond to Cardus’s senior researcher Doug Sikkema’s critique of university administrations. What do you think? Is your experience that the god of market has turned our colleges into an educational version of Costco? Let us know.
I have been teaching in higher education for the past 11 years, in both the college and university sectors ...