Convivium Magazine

Every Moment Holy

Anthony Diehl

November 30, 2017

Do you have liturgy at the ready for ordinary life? Today, Convivium contributor Anthony Diehl reviews Doug Mckelvey's Every Moment Holy, a liturgical companion that baptizes the everyday in prayer.

But what about all the other “ordinary” moments of life? Isn’t the Spirit also at work in and through the everyday stuff? In families and marriages, in work and play, in aging bodies and childlike wonder? I may recognize the sanctifying effect these daily moments have had on me over time, but it’s r...

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Faith Under Fire

Peter Stockland

November 30, 2017

Trinity Western University has had the first of its two days in court over its multi-year struggle to open a law school. Convivium publisher Peter Stockland recounts how the lawyer for the private, Christian school withstood a barrage of skeptical questions from Supreme Court of Canada justices.

In making the argument Boonstra found himself answering pointed questions from Justice Richard Wagner, who opened and closed the day’s hearing by asking what kind of message the law societies would be sending to Canadian society if they were to accept licensing of lawyers trained at a school that di...

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Blurred Horizon

Thomas Sanz

November 30, 2017

Photographer Thomas Sanz captures a quiet moment of blurred horizon in the Georgia Strait of British Columbia, capturing the sacred spirit of solitude.

For the moment, this is the entire world ...

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LGBTQ AT TWU

Matthew Wigmore

November 29, 2017

As a Trinity Western University grad and member of the LGBTQ community, contributor Matthew Wigmore urges caution about seeing tomorrow Supreme Court hearing strictly as a legal fight over religious freedom.

In order to make the claim, with integrity, that TWU’s predicament signals a religious freedom crisis in Canada, there needs to be evidence that a backlash against TWU could have arisen without their exclusion of LGBTQ+ persons through their Community Covenant Through my conversations, and witnessin...

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Defending Trinity’s Right To Exist

Evan Menzies

November 29, 2017

Tomorrow’s Supreme Court of Canada’s hearing on Trinity Western University should engage all Canadians confronted by the State’s chipping away at fundamental Charter rights, warns alumnus Evan Menzies.

Ontario and Nova Scotia’s law societies all stepped way out of their bounds when they tried to deny Trinity Western law students possible accreditation, despite the obvious contradiction that many lawyers who hold Trinity undergraduate degrees serve their clients and employers faithfully across the ...

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The Dizzying Array of Human Dignity

Josh Nadeau

November 28, 2017

Writing from Central Asia after years of “extravagant mobility,” Convivium contributor Josh Nadeau finds the complexities of geopolitics pale beside the challenges of witnessing God in every human encounter

We’re obviously not God and will never be, but there may be a call here particularly for people of faith to take up the work of radical empathy, a radical presence that seeks to cut through even the white noise of a place as complicated as Central Asia and find, on the other side, a link to people t...

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Trinity Western Wishes

Peter Stockland

November 27, 2017

Tomorrow, Prime Minister Trudeau offers an unprecedented apology to persecuted members of sexual minorities. On Thursday, Trinity Western University is before the Supreme Court of Canada arguing for its religious freedom. Having previously presented TWU's perspective, Convivium asks lawyers Mark Berlin and Douglas Judson about sexual politics and the law.

Trudeau’s apology and the pardons will form the political, and to some extent even the legal, atmosphere in which Trinity will appeal a recent Ontario court decision future graduates of its law school He senses strongly that an affirmation of the Ontario Appeal Court decision will have much longer t...

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Wherever You Are

Danika Lee

November 25, 2017

Photographer Danika Lee’s capture of a greenhouse portrays a sacred space of life and purpose.

What if our sole purpose was to grow our whole lives, more and more into righteous, holy, and loving people of faith, as if it’s all we knew how to do? We’re not perfect, but we can keep growing no matter what. ...

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Eight Myths of Choice

Andrea Mrozek

November 24, 2017

In this talk to a group of interns on Parliament Hill last week, Cardus Family program director Andrea Mrozek offered a new way to see familiar pro-choice arguments

For women like myself, rather than viewing choice through an autonomy lens, I prefer to consider abortion through the lens of the good, the true and the beautiful Access to abortion and the birth control pill have significantly altered the way we view women, women’s bodies and the nature of pregnanc...

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Choir

Peter Stockland

November 23, 2017

Photographer Jeff Sheldon conveys the expanse of space that matches what we imagine to be the soaring notes of the choir's holy song.

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The Clintons’ End Times

Raymond J. de Souza

November 23, 2017

As the Clintons become the face of a critical moment of cultural change "reckoning, recriminations, even revenge, is in the air," says Convivium editor in chief Fr. Raymond J. de Souza. Now, more than ever, he urges, should the virtues of repentance and reconciliation serve as the hallmarks of the age to come.

On the 24th anniversary of the election, five days before the 2016 presidential election, the plan would have been to celebrate the 25th anniversary in the White House, or perhaps to have President Hillary Clinton fly down to Little Rock on Air Force One As long as Bill and Hillary’s political futur...

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Refresh

Danika Lee

November 23, 2017

There are places in this world that seem untouched by any other human being. When we encounter those spaces, we may enter with reverence to be renewed and refreshed.

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Blade Runner: The Miracle of Birth

Stephen Porter

November 22, 2017

Director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is far more than a sequel to the 1982 classic about robot rebellion. It recovers from the dregs of techno-saturated hedonism, Convivium reviewer Stephen Porter writes, a theology of the body making dignity inseparable from sexuality ordered toward life

All the superhuman capabilities and physical perfection of the Replicants can in no way match the human capacity to participate in existence itself through supernatural love for another being ...

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Points of Christian Re-Formation

Ray Pennings

November 21, 2017

On Monday night during a panel discussion at McGill University’s Newman Centre in Montreal, Cardus Executive Vice-President Ray Pennings set out five points that he, as a Reformed believer, considers vital if Christians are to re-form a divided Church into unified faith.

You might rightly summarize my contribution as being keen on dialogue, conversation and understanding each other; sceptical about the likelihood of finding doctrinal or ecclesiastical unity that is meaningful or lasting; but finding reason based on my own experience for robust collaboration – co-bel...

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The Whole In The Tapestry

Hannah Marazzi, Elizabeth Osgood

November 20, 2017

Elizabeth Osgood has gone from being an engineering contractor for NASA to a novice nun with the Congregation of Notre Dame. Not such a giant leap, she tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi: just bringing together the strands that make God’s tapestry whole

E: As an engineer and a professor in the realm of science, it surprised me how little religion came up C: You’ve joined the Congregation of Notre Dame for your time in the novitiate E: Brother Guy came at a time that I really was questioning whether or not a scientist could be anywhere in the realm ...

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