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!
Surprised and refreshed by her first encounter with a religious sister, Katie Gordon talks to Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi about the generative possibilities that could emerge from bringing religious nuns and religious nones together across generations and affiliations.
How fitting, observes Convivium contributor Terry Lisieux, that the unveiling of the first photograph of a black hole should occur just before Easter reveals again the central Moment of Christian life.
Newfoundland Anglican minister Rev. Fred Marshall dreamed of drawing more local men into his church. God told him to build a wooden shed instead.
Reducing the material world to what can be carried, lodging in hostels and sharing with transient strangers, Chris Konrad grasps how the ache of pilgrimage can become the beginning of spiritual practice.
Often, we do not realize what we have put our trust in until those things have failed us. As Convivium contributor Dan Chook Reid navigates his cancer diagnosis, he and his family forgo fear and embrace risk, discovering how God stretches and strengthens them.
The life story of B.C. entrepreneur and philanthropist Jim Pattison testifies to his Christian capacity for working across differences to achieve the greater good, writes Convivium contributor Lloyd Mackey.
Geoffrey Cameron reviews the film The Gate: The Dawn of the Bahá’í Faith, the first cinematic attempt to portray the life, history, and teachings of The Báb. There are challenges in interpreting the lives and teachings of Prophets and Messengers of God, he writes.
Musician Brian Doerksen sits down with Convivium to discuss how music shaped him, how the needs of his family shaped his music, and how, in the end, collaboration is life.
Karin Gerber-Bartel is a former refugee who now make comforters for Mennonite Central Committee to support other displaced people.
Convivium’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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