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Convivium was a project of Cardus 2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
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  • Education Research as a Travel Guide for Wholesome Public Life

    Education Research as a Travel Guide for Wholesome Public Life

    Beth Green

    November 30, 2016

    Johanna Admiraal, a first-year undergraduate student at Michigan’s Calvin College, is an example of a Christian school graduate who has been able to see her education journey reflected in our data When Johanna writes about the ‘failings’ of Christian education, she is talking in part about the close...

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  • Post Truth Tough Potatoes

    Post Truth Tough Potatoes

    Peter Stockland

    November 29, 2016

    In the hoary Soviet-era joke, Vladimir and Estragon are sipping vodka during shift break at the nuclear power plant when they spy an ad in Pravda for GUM – the Soviet Union’s state department store chain In the pre-post-truth world where competitive private media kept it honest, the CBC had the nece...

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  • The Long Chain of Care

    The Long Chain of Care

    Milton Friesen

    November 28, 2016

    Charitable organizations are one of the most important means we have of moving human intention to action at a scale that makes a difference – charities are a vital means of expressing the common good in organized form Finally, we need to increase our ability to reflect together philosophically on wh...

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  • David See-Chai Lam

    David See-Chai Lam

    Lloyd Mackey

    November 25, 2016

    David See-Chai Lam, a Hong Kong-born businessman/philanthropist, served several years as British Columbia’s lieutenant-governor. A strong evangelical Baptist by faith, he also brought Confucian concepts of “harmony” into play in creative encouraging conflict resolution and management in business, public and religious life.

    The chief markers of his next 17 years in Hong Kong were his advancement in the family-owned Ka Wah Bank, his marriage to Dorothy Lam, his emerging skills as a prudent and wise financial investor and his increasing sense of wanting to be independent – yet in harmony with – his family and other Hong ...

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  • A Greater Game Plan

    A Greater Game Plan

    November 25, 2016

    Christian faith helps drive the impact they as a family hope to have on athletes and students alike: to see lives transformed In the end, there is a grounding, a solidified foundation that both Kim and Jacques as well as their children can come back to ...

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  • From Sea to Sea: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture and Public Life

    From Sea to Sea: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture and Public Life

    Raymond J. de Souza

    November 24, 2016

    On his return flight from Kraków, when asked about the murder of Father Jacques Hamel at the altar during Holy Mass, Pope Francis said, “I don’t like to speak of Islamic violence because every day when I open the newspapers I see acts of violence, here in Italy: someone kills his girlfriend, someone...

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  • Light

    Light

    Peter Stockland

    November 24, 2016

    Shadow, mystery, illumination, and communion are encapsulated in photographer Sasin Tipchai's capture. 

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  • Listening Through Literature

    Listening Through Literature

    Peter Stockland

    November 23, 2016

    Like Lilla’s concern with identity politics specifically, like Tippett with her pushback against obsessive preoccupation with politics generally, Boyagoda sees in literature a necessary opening to rediscover the whole story of what it means to be human The heft of Lilla’s impeccable liberal credenti...

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  • Freedom’s Fullest Function

    Freedom’s Fullest Function

    Brian Dijkema

    November 22, 2016

    During a recent debate evening at our Ottawa office on the resolution that “the sole purpose of business is to maximize profit,” Cardus’ Director of Work and Economics, Brian Dijkema, eloquently argued the “nay” position.

    To use the words of our friend Milton Friedman, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits Auden paints a picture of creation as vocation – an experience which causes us to “ignore the appetitive godde...

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  • The Muscular Solidarity of Truth

    The Muscular Solidarity of Truth

    Andrew P.W. Bennett

    November 21, 2016

    This true and muscular solidarity is one that is defined by and bound to that most profound truth: the inherent dignity of every human being ...

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  • Ernest Manning

    Ernest Manning

    Lloyd Mackey

    November 18, 2016

    Ernest Manning is best remembered as Alberta’s premier from 1943 to 1968 – the longest-serving premier in the Commonwealth. Manning’s understanding of the Scriptures gave him an appreciation of human need as enunciated by proponents of the social gospel.

    At Ernest Manning’s funeral in February 1996, Reform Party of Canada leader Preston Manning suggested that his father’s last political words could well be: “Do not let internal discord do to Canada what wars, depressions and hard times were unable to do When oil revenues brought Alberta into unprece...

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  • Trump’s Top Rope Roots

    Trump’s Top Rope Roots

    Raymond J. de Souza

    November 17, 2016

    Perhaps that’s because Trump and Ali have the same rhetorical grandfather – Gorgeous George, the professional wrestler As persuasive though as Peter’s analysis is of Trump’s professional wrestling ethos, his reference to Gorgeous George points us to a trend in our culture which is deeper than just o...

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  • Young Nun in Prayer

    Young Nun in Prayer

    Peter Stockland

    November 17, 2016

    It has been said that we are never more ourselves than when we are deep in prayer. Tusita Studio provides the viewer of a glimpse of this deeply human moment of divine intercession. 

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  • Friday Prayer at Dundas and Chestnut

    Friday Prayer at Dundas and Chestnut

    Farhad Khadim

    November 16, 2016

    This is a story of how people of faith refused to be victimized by terror. It resulted in the establishment of Toronto’s downtown Masjid Mosque which turned the corner of the corner of Dundas and Chestnut into a place of prayer and spirituality for thousands of Canadians each week.

    I soon became aware that Muslim congregants in downtown Toronto struggled to find a permanent community-based place to offer prayers; Friday prayers proved to be especially difficult as it is incumbent on Muslim men to perform the prayers in congregation Today, Masjid Toronto is a place of prayer an...

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  • The Tower of Song

    The Tower of Song

    Peter Stockland

    November 15, 2016

    But through the pleasure of his poetry Cohen could – and continues to be able to through technological posterity – move us to time and place where: Poetry does not lose its magical power… but merely transfers it from an action on nature to an action on the reader or hearer,” Frye says ...

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Convivium was a project of Cardus 2011-2022

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