2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Photographer Danika Lee captures a moment of creation taking place independent on the fact that she has eyes and a camera to capture it.
It’s the beauty of Creation that sings a song of praise in any way it knows how ...
What does Shoppers Drug Mart have to teach us about the juxtaposition between self sacrifice and self indulgence? Read more to find out!
Who knew that as bookstores were struggling across the Dominion, Shoppers was picking up the slack? My eye was caught, though, by the magazine rack, where side by each – as they say in Newfoundland – was a special edition of Time magazine dedicated to the late Hugh Hefner, and a special edition of P...
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin brought two artists to church on Remembrance Weekend: muralists from Northern Ireland’s Bogside neighbourhood who have memorialized that city’s bloody sectarian sorrows in order to create space for remembering, truth-telling and reconciliation.
The artists had been staying with us for the weekend to attend the travelling exhibition Art, Conflict and Remembering: the murals of the Bogside Artists that I have been curating with them over the last few years My guests, Tom Kelly and Kevin Hasson, are two muralists from the Bogside area of Derr...
Photographer Danika Lee shows us the perspective that is gained when we climb a mountain, when we see the world from new heights. This view belongs to all of us.
We’ve gained a new perspective up here, a realization that though we cannot touch the world below, we are still very much a part of it ...
With today's release of the fourth major Angus Reid Institute polls on the state of religion in Canada, Cardus Executive Vice-President Ray Pennings says the biggest identifiable gap is between Canadians' positive lived experiences of faith and their negative perceptions arising from narratives about spiritual belief.
What I find interesting about all of these questions is that when you take a look at the intensity of anti-faith feelings in the group of non-believers, or even their feelings about Islam, people of faith are far more positive about those who are Muslim than non-believers are I think it’s also a sen...
Cardus Law Program Director Dr. Andrew Bennett reflects on the way the House of Commons justice committee dealt with Bill C-51.
Then Liberal, Conservative, and NDP MPs responded to the testimony by making a significant change to a government bill – a rare enough instance of putting partisanship aside, in this case, to buttress religious freedom in Canada by preserving Section 176 of the Criminal Code It means that both gover...
Photographer Rob Wilson captures a stunning sunrise view of Artist Point, near Deming Washington.
This image is a testimony to the perspective change that happens when we have friends in different areas of life ...
Born into a staunchly atheistic family, Mark Clark has built Village Church into a community of 6,000 worshippers in multiple places across Canada. The success, Clark tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi, springs from fostering a Gospel-rooted church for the de-churched.
C: You are “passionate about contextualizing the gospel, teaching the Bible, and seeing people transformed by Jesus As I look at the Church in Canada, I become aware that when you’re not living like a counter cultural community, and start to wash down theology into some sort of mainstream message, y...
Samira Mohammadi was just 10 years old when she was forced to face the world alone with just her mother and her sister. Through her family's heartwrenching experience leaving one home in search of another, Samira writes that "I can clearly see how God guides us through our darkest days."
Because the lady insisted so much, she opened the first zipper of her luggage, with not even the slightest bit of hope and there it was, the page from the travel agency that stated our departing and arriving dates He will use anyone to help us through our unknown, unexplored, or our undiscovered jou...
In her Golden Thread submission, Faith shares about the struggles she, her family, and her brother faced as he struggled with his health from birth. She writes, "Many people would see a child who experiences defects like Liam’s, as 'imperfect,' but they are truly missing out on a beautiful blessing."
As a baby Liam would wear casts like this one, usually on both legs, and every week his doctors would take off the previous cast and force his bones into place a little more, in preparation for his next cast, which caused excruciating pain as his bones were manipulated Because my parents had faith L...
"The moral of this story is that no matter how you grow up, no matter how alone you feel you can't just look at the disasters happening, you have to stare at God. At His good things in life."
Nearing the dark part of her story, she was in Toronto with a fist full of pills ready to take her own life, replaying the things that happened to her over and over in her mind, not understanding her purpose or her meaning ...
As the Convivium Team reflects on the launch of the Sacred Spaces Gallery, Hannah Marazzi sits down with Makoto Fujimura, artist, writer, and catalyst to understand the role of beauty, belonging, and art as signs of the New Creation.
Serving as an opportunity for contemplation, prayer, and the celebration of beauty, Sacred Spaces carves out a unique online space to meditate on the intersection of faith in ordinary life This past year, Convivium launched the Sacred Spaces Gallery, a unique online space devoted to contemplating th...
On Nov. 30, Trinity Western University will argue in the Supreme Court of Canada for its right to operate a law school from evangelical Christian principles. Recently, the school’s President Bob Kuhn advised a Commons’ committee studying Islamophobia to look at the systemic discrimination suffered by TWU if they want to see anti-religious bigotry in action.
Trinity Western University and its students, faculty and staff experience significant financial, emotional, and systemic discrimination in relation to everything from treatment of its alumni and professors in their professional and employment context, to exclusion from government funding or the bene...
Photographer Rob Wilson captures the reflection of a mountain peak in a glacial lake, giving the illusion of a floating mountain range.
Eventually the sky will clear and you’ll be able to see the depth of beauty that surrounds you ...
In her Golden Thread submission, Danielle Cuevas tells of the story of her parents coming to Canada and going through so many hardships. It "is a simple story compared to many others, but their perseverance to keep the faith strong no matter what inspires me to this day."
Doctors said if my parents had another child the chances of her death would be higher, but my mom trusted God and had an unshakeable faith Now here we are, we went through many problems throughout the years but we adhere together as a family who solely believes in God and the Catholic faith Luckily...