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Last week’s death of a multi-talented young Christian apologist underscores the necessity of following the truth no matter the cost, Convivium contributor Scott Ventureyra writes in this obituary for Nabeel Qureshi.
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Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland delivers a sterling defence of sports and citizenship amidst the verbal clash between NFL players and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump, of course, set the sports world aflame this weekend when he verbally abused NFL players whom he accused of showing disrespect to the American national anthem during pre-game ceremonies While he stood stalwart behind what he called the “brotherhood of sport,” Wilfork characterized Trump’s comm...
Judges for the $25,000 Faith in Canada 150 Mitchell Literary Prize have their short list ready to announce today. Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland spoke with contest director Doug Sikkema about what the high quality of the entries means for Canadian literature.
Doug Sikkema: David Adams Richards noticed this sort of dynamic in the literary community in Canada years ago: the one group you can sort of still be bigoted against or prejudiced against is people of faith, people who believe Convivium: How does the Canadianness of both the poetry and the stories ...
"I was 21, full of dreams and ambitions, but this sudden change in my body, this horrible diagnosis ruined everything." In her Golden Thread submission, Galyna Paliychuk shares about the year she met God.
F & F - Fear and Faith: the two most powerful weapons in the world My life became a thread of long monotonous days, which were divided on days when I had chemo and got sick, and days when I was still alive to attend classes at university, and to work Since then, every person, every situation and suc...
People of faith pursue God, but gospel musician Brooke Nicholls reminds us in this Convivium interview that God also pursues His people. The meeting place between them, the Chatham Ontario native tells Hannah Marazzi, is invariably touched by beautiful song.
BN: When I first met Steve, we both loved music but had no idea where God was going to lead us We would speak for hours about this dream that we had to play music together and lead people into the presence of God BN: I feel as though God has called all of these musicians — The City Harmonic, All S...
Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland reviews the venerable Patti Smith's new book Devotion, drawing out the profound themes of love, light, and freedom found therein.
Inspiration, for Smith, is a portmanteau of the “activist mystic” Simone Weil’s gifted discovery that “faith is the experience that the intellect is enlightened by love Because of Smith’s profound experience of grief that gives way to the intellect enlightened by love, it would be understandable if ...
In her Golden Thread submission, Claire Brown shares how close prayer is to her heart, and the place of her church in her life and community in Kingston.
At that mass, in that chapel, I think the reality of the universal church is played out: there are a handful of young, bleary eyed students who fill a couple pews during the school year, a few professionals who hurry off to work after the final blessing, occasionally a mother or two with their toddl...
Today Father Raymond J. de Souza revisits the light and beauty of Caravaggio's timeless work ‘The Calling of St. Matthew’ and the truth it continues to communicate to viewers in this day and age.
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In the heart of Jerusalem on a brutally hot day, Brittany Beacham encounters renewal of the ancient Scriptural practice of lament when God’s love is felt not through modern Happy Face smiles, but in the most painful moments of human experience.
Lament isn't something we really focus on, or talk about much in the North American church, is it? We so like to be comfortable that we don't give much attention to things like grieving together with God Standing at the heart of Jerusalem, it is often characterized as a place of tears, where people ...
Kevin Wiebe, the pastor of a small country church, shares what has consistently held together his community: faith. And the costs that commitment has created. But most importantly, how that same faith has sustained his people for generations.
Therefore, when we worship as communities of faith, as we tell stories of faith past and present, and as we have faith and hope for the future, we are connected to all the lovers of God throughout all generations, both long deceased and yet to be born This word also carries with it a sense of Christ...
While everyone should be concerned by sexual violence at North American universities, writes Professor James R. Vanderwoerd, his newly published research indicates the best answer to toxic masculinity is cultivation of moral communities on campus.
Decades of research on campus sexual violence show that 21 per cent to 31 per cent of women students experience some form of unwanted sexual contact within the past year My research on campus sexual violence, published last month in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, suggests that independent...
If Convivium is about building community, Anna Vogt is the embodiment of the convivial ideal. A Canadian who now calls Colombia home, her Mennonite tradition and partnership with the Mennonite Central Committee - MCC make her a welcome voice for a lifelong, faith-fueled journey of building shared space between people.
While theologically-shaped faith commitments can and do shape and inform political positions, we have found that the political advocacy positions emerging from the Colombian Mennonite church context have a qualitatively different feel than other forms of political advocacy: the fundamental agenda is...
Daniel Prousssalidis, Cardus director of communications, visits a Habitat For Humanity site this week and discovers that people of various faiths working on a building sound like religious belief in action.
Differing backgrounds and beliefs did not get in the way of a common act of worship and a common expression of faith by contributing to the construction of 50 homes for low-income families The audio landscape changed as more than two dozen leaders of faith communities and faith-based organizations r...
Convivium editor-in-chief Father Raymond J. de Souza reflects on the spiritual significance of water in light of the recent hurricanes that have been raging.
And we don’t fully grasp the biblical worldview unless we remember that, for those living with and listening to Jesus, the waters were a place of danger and the storm was a lethal threat The Biblical world was more afraid of what nature could do, what the chaos of the waters could bring The Biblical...
Cardus Senior Fellow Deani Van Pelt, and Cardus Education Program Director Beth Green, contend that proponents of misperceptions about home schooling should read up on the ample evidence of its benefits.
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