Doug Sikkema
Doug Sikkema is an assistant Professor of English and Core Humanities at Redeemer University College and an aspiring gentlemen farmer.
Bio last modified January 28th, 2021.Prizes for Poets
The Mitchell literary prize is ramping up to receive poems eligible for a $20,000 first prize. Doug Sikkema, managing editor of Comment magazine, talks to Peter Stockland about partnering with Image Journal to host the prize, and why faith-based poetry must become central to Canadian letters.
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Renewing End-of-Life Care
April 24, 2018There’s a growing need for more and better end-of-life care in Canada – especially as our population ages. But how does the national picture affect our local communities? Cardus Senior Researcher Doug Sikkema and Ottawa policy analyst Marisa Casagrande have analyzed two of Ontario’s larger communities to get a better idea of what challenges the health system will face, and what all parts of society need to bring to the table to meet them..
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Treating College Like Costco
December 11, 2017Doug Sikkema, senior researcher at Cardus and the managing editor of our sister publication Comment, argues that until we know what higher education is for, we’ll have difficulty protecting those who toil within it
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The Spirit of Prize Winning Poets
November 6, 2017The first and second place finishers in the poetry portion of the Ross and Davis Mitchell Literary Prize offer first hand accounts of the role faith played in their success.
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And The Mitchell Prize Winners Are….
October 27, 2017This 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.
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Countdown to the Mitchell Literary Prize
September 25, 2017Judges 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.
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This Manner of Love
June 1, 2017Emergency surgery becomes the opening for Doug Sikkema to encounter some ribald characters, the troubled heart of a city, and the service of Christ suffering, Christ risen.
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Telling Our Better Stories
March 20, 2017Convivium's Doug Sikkema examines the role that story telling plays in his life as a Canadian and a man of faith. And as project lead for The Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing, he's looking for Canadian writers and poets to submit unpublished short stories or suites of poetry by June 30. There's $25,000 in prize money to be won.
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Finding God at the AGO
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The New Scientism
December 1, 2015In his review of Eric Dietrich’s Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World, Convivium assistant editor Doug Sikkema finds a phantom war being fought by warriors of the author’s imagination.
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Commons & Commonwealth
August 1, 2015As students across North America head back to class, Convivium contributor Doug Sikkema considers the common ground between education, ecology and our common home
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Haunted by nature in our secular age
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Taking Care of Our Own
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The Muse of Appreciation
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In Memory of Jack
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2014 in Review: A Call for Civic Courage
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Building for the World's Last Night
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Stealing Past the Dragons
December 1, 2014Marilynne Robinson is a 21st century successor to Flannery O’Connor and C.S. Lewis, with less shouting and fantasy.
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Medics in No-Man’s Land
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The Imagination: Free, but Everywhere in Chains
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No Shame in Dirty Hands
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Why Aren't Conservatives Funny?
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The Conversation Precedes Us
September 5, 2014