Passing on Comfort
February 21, 2019
Karin Gerber-Bartel is a former refugee who now make comforters for Mennonite Central Committee to support other displaced people.
Voices From the Crowd
Launched on Canada's Sesquicentennial Anniversary to capture Canada's stories of faith from coast to coast, the Voices from the Crowd initiative serves as a powerful collection of unique narrative. We continue to collect stories that reveal the depth and diversity of Canada's unique landscape of faith. Do you have a story to share? Add your voice to the collection today!
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Liturgies of the Moment
February 12, 2019Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi learns from author Douglas McKelvey how we can make every moment holy by seeing even milk, honey and coffee as worthy objects of liturgy.
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God in the Chaos
February 6, 2019Overcoming her doubts about the mission, though not the message, of the Church, the University of Ottawa’s Samantha Dignam discovers at the Urbana18 conference how acknowledging the faults of Christians is key to carrying the Gospel to the world.
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Faith Among the Seconds
February 4, 2019Through often painful moments listening to a broken man at an Ottawa drop-in centre, Joyce Deng began to hear God’s voice in the briefest of encounters.
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Beauty That Overcomes Doom
January 17, 2019Edmonton’s Salima Versi finds in the glories of the city’s Aga Khan Garden a reminder that goodness grows even in ground tainted by bigotry and fear.
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Called To Whole-Hearted Faith
January 7, 2019At the five-day Urbana 18 student faith conference in St. Louis, former Convivium intern Anna Burhmann is witness to ways to guard against making Christ a mere convenience in our lives.
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No Christians by Proxy
January 3, 2019Kaitlin Packer's faith is more than a check-box or the roof she was raised under. Rather, faith is the reality of the soul.
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Spinning Out of Control
December 19, 2018Within the span of 20 minutes, Jocelyne Freundorfer's life spun out of control before just as quickly being put back on track. So just where was God's message in all this? Could it be that this small, terrifying moment pointed to deeper understanding of life with a spirit of poverty?
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Darkness
November 30, 2018As the days grow darker, Melissa Payne reflects on the way darkness and cold weave themselves into the pace of our living. In darkness lies more than despair, Payne writes.
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Embracing My Inheritance
November 21, 2018Susan Fulmore was brought up in the evangelical tradition. She explores her inheritance, of rooms unused, of spaces she had not sat. The full house has been calling her.
