A Familiar Tune
Hannah Martin
November 3, 2017
Wedding photographer, Hannah Martin captures this simple response of love from a wife to her husband's song, a tune she knows so well.
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My Great Grandfather
Jeff Lockert
November 2, 2017
For Jeff Lockert, President of Catholic Christian Outreach and a member of the Faith in Canada 150 Cabinet of Canadians, time with Grandpa Henry was always a brush with greatness.
While Grandpa Henry probably would have had no idea who John Wooden was (Henry wasn’t really a big sports fan), I can say that Grandpa was truly a great leader because he brought out greatness in me Grandpa Henry was a great husband, a great friend, a great father, a great farmer, and a great leader...
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How We Hold On
Kaitlin Wynia
November 1, 2017
Kaitlin Wynia's faith and faith community are her point of departure when it comes to making sense of all of the chaos, joy, adversity, and confusion that often colour everyday life.
While conducting a research project for my Master of Arts degree, I began to develop an acute sensitivity to the important role of faith in helping both individuals and communities move out of chaos and adversity and towards a sense of coherence and hopefulness ...
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Disorder in the House
Don Hutchinson
November 1, 2017
Ottawa lawyer and writer Don Hutchinson argues two government measures now making their way through the House of Commons are so contradictory they show the Liberal left hand doesn’t know what the Liberal right hand is doing when it comes to religious freedom.
What are Canadians to make of a government that considers it a matter of our national heritage to put an end religious discrimination, while at the same time a matter of justice and human rights to embolden the disruption of religious worship? The motion, M-103, that resulted in the first study, by ...
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Attitude is Everything
Hannah Martin
November 1, 2017
Photographer Hannah Martin photographs her husband Joey on the beach in Tofino, British Columbia. Her image prompts us to consider what posture we might take either before or after attempting the sport of surfing.
Either way, he is submitting to the powerful surge of energy, just with a different attitude ...
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Literary Good News
Peter Stockland
October 31, 2017
Convivium's Publisher Peter Stockland reports on the inaugural Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing Reception and the presentation of $25,000 dollars in prize money to emerging voices in the Canadian literary sphere.
In announcing that the Mitchell Prize will next be awarded in 2019, Cardus President Michael Van Pelt said the Hamilton-based think tank (which produces Convivium.ca) became convinced as the Faith in Canada 150 initiative unfurled that language, poetry, story, and literature have a key role to play ...
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Engaging To Combat Bigotry
Balpreet Singh Boparai
October 30, 2017
The World Sikh Organization of Canada supports a parliamentary move to combat Islamophobia, says spokesman Balpreet Singh. But he warns a House of Commons committee that Motion 103 must never supplant active engagement against hate.
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Crossings
Peter Stockland
October 30, 2017
Ottawa's lines and spires of power converge in holy symmetry.
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A Moment of Rest
Hannah Martin
October 30, 2017
Photographer Hannah Martin invites the Sacred Spaces viewers into a moment of peace by imagining you could sit in these chairs with this view and just be.
Be in this place for a moment ...
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And The Mitchell Prize Winners Are….
Doug Sikkema
October 27, 2017
This Monday evening at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, a Canadian poet and a Canadian fiction writer will be feted – and awarded $25,000 – as winners of the Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize For Faith In Writing. Cardus’ editor and senior researcher Doug Sikkema, who oversaw the competition from its beginnings two years ago, says everyone who put pen to paper has contributed to advancing the vital role religious traditions play in Canadian life.
It was late in 2015 when Greg Pennoyer and I grabbed lunch at Radius in Hamilton to scheme about a possible literary prize that would celebrate the role religion and faith played in the lives of Canadian writers today Greg had been brought on board to direct a new program (of sorts) all geared to ce...
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Working with Clay
Scott Bandy
October 26, 2017
In his Golden Thread submission, Scott Bandy shares about the accomplishments of his grandfather: not published works nor heroism nor authority, but a life infused with faith that strove to magnify the "light of the knowledge of the glory of God."
Why was Grandpa so quick to prayer? Why did he pray so frequently? I believe it was because he understood that our God is one who is faithful to keep families safe on the drive home; that a tea party with grandchildren is a blessing to give thanks for; and that a planted hotel room Bible could becom...
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Education’s Most Excellent Love
Beth Green, with Diane Stronks, Elco Vandergrift
October 26, 2017
As Cardus partners with the global organization EduDeo to add a prize for Excellence in Global Perspective Teaching to its annual John Rozema Teacher Excellence Awards, Education Program Director Beth Green asks veteran educators Diane Stronks and Elco Vandergrift about the difference Christian love can make in the world’s classrooms.
BG: As you both know, at Cardus Education we've been working with Christian schools in Ontario to celebrate the excellence in teaching and learning that we see in our schools here in the province, and telling the story about that practice And when EduDeo made a connection with me regarding the Walki...
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100 Years of Fortitude
Raymond J. de Souza
October 26, 2017
Convivium's editor in chief Father Raymond J. de Souza marks the anniversary of both the Sacred Heart of Mary parish and Queen's University's "Newman Club."
The University of Toronto had a Newman Club for Catholic students, and Catholic students at Queen’s, then a Presbyterian-founded university of only a few hundred students, wanted the same There are conversions of heart and conversions of life, and the courage of Christian students on campus today is...
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Solitude
Peter Stockland
October 25, 2017
Photographer Peter Stockland is struck on his rush hour commute by a figure of stillness and solitude along the canal's edge.
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One Hate Crime Is Too Many
Shimon Koffler Fogel
October 25, 2017
Convivium has previously published testimony to the House of Commons Heritage Committee on M-103, a motion to address religious intolerance and racism. Today, we present remarks to the committee from Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, who cautions Canada’s reputation as a welcoming land hangs in the balance between rooting out genuine hatred and leaving free space to criticize religious ideologies.
In report after report, Statistics Canada and police services across the country continue to confirm that Jews are the religious minority most targeted by hate-motivated crime in both absolute numbers and on a per capita basis This committee should recommend that the government establish uniform, na...