Hannah Marazzi
Hannah Marazzi is a masters student at the University of Cambridge. She is the co-editor of Opt In: A Beginner's Handbook to Canadian Politics, which will be published with McGill Queen's Press in Fall 2021. Hannah formerly served as the Stakeholder Officer for Cardus. Hannah is passionate about pluralism, citizen engagement, and the praxis between people and policy. She is a committed human rights advocate and has contributed to projects related to Holocaust education, interfaith dialogue, and refugees.
Bio last updated July 6th, 2021.
Articles by Hannah Marazzi
A Seat At The Table
By Christoph Sanz, with Kimberly Wilkinson, Hannah Marazzi
March 7, 2018
Today, Convivium's Hannah Marazzi sits down with the folks from Barnabas Farmworks to learn more about their theology of farming and discuss pigs, poetry, and the sacramental goodness of the ordinary tomato.
When we're trying to decide how to spend our time, the relational component takes precedence, with our guests and the kids that are spending time with us on the farm, but also with our neighbours on the island as well Over the course of the week, each age group of kids will spend a significant portion of time on the farm as a part of their camp experience We’d always maintained a little bit of farm activity but it wasn't an active part of the ministry until six or seven years ago A friend came to help us in the fall and he said, "Isn't it interesting how you just start doing something, and are stuttering along, listening to God each step of the way, but by just doing something that you love with your whole heart, people begin to show up, and want to be a part of it Three years ago, we started the internship program, because we saw there was opportunity to bring the people that we were staffing the farm with in on the process of the project in a more intentional way Honestly, we didn't really, especially in the early years, actively try to bring people into the farm, but they started showing up and this Farmworks initiative has grown into something people want to be part of
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Christ's Hope in the Wounds of the Rohingya
Hannah Marazzi with Emily Way
February 16, 2018
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi speaks with Emily Way about working out the Gospel at the Samaritan’s Purse emergency field hospitals in Bangladesh and Iraq.
May we pray for the Rohingya people to find hope and purpose as people of faith and other organizations seek to provide assistance in this time of crisis C: I understand that Samaritan’s Purse, in partnership with World Medical Mission, has established a 24-bed Rohingya Care Unit I was humbled and i...
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The Gospel Spell of Godspell
Hannah Marazzi with Jonathan Harris
February 13, 2018
With a new production of Godspell about to open in Ottawa just before Easter, Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks to artistic director Jonathan Harris about what makes a 48-year-old play about 2000 year old Scriptures such captivating theatre for today’s audiences.
JH: The story of Jesus has captured people, you know, forever all over the world on its own! And I think this version of the story in particular, with the freshness of energy and music is why Godspell is endearing My entire understanding of the world, people, faith, spirituality, and theology has be...
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Breath Breaking Forth
Hannah Marazzi, with Neil Josephson, Sharol Josephson
January 25, 2018
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi talks with organizers of the annual three-day Break Forth One Gospel festival that will draw thousands of worshippers to Edmonton, Alberta this weekend
Neil Josephson: We're fairly new to Break Forth One, and certainly to our leadership position, so we spent the last couple of years really kind of honing and refining the vision, that Arlen and Elsa Salte, the original founders, undertook Break Forth One exists to unify, serve, equip, and empower th...
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Diving Into Divine Community
Beth Davis, with Nell O'Leary, Hannah Marazzi
January 17, 2018
Today Convivium sits down with Beth Davis and Nell O'Leary of Blessed Is She, a Catholic women’s community committed to deepening a life of prayer, daily Scripture devotionals, and creating a supportive sisterhood that stretches across North America.
C: Blessed Is She facilitates retreats, regional groups, and workshops, bringing women who have connected to this vibrant online community together in person BD & NOL: Because of the prevalence of that "highlights reel," young women of faith share about their struggle to be authentically themselves ...
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The Whole In The Tapestry
Hannah Marazzi, Elizabeth Osgood
November 20, 2017
Elizabeth Osgood has gone from being an engineering contractor for NASA to a novice nun with the Congregation of Notre Dame. Not such a giant leap, she tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi: just bringing together the strands that make God’s tapestry whole
E: As an engineer and a professor in the realm of science, it surprised me how little religion came up C: You’ve joined the Congregation of Notre Dame for your time in the novitiate E: Brother Guy came at a time that I really was questioning whether or not a scientist could be anywhere in the realm ...
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The Church’s Village Voice
Hannah Marazzi with Mark Clark
November 14, 2017
Born into a staunchly atheistic family, Mark Clark has built Village Church into a community of 6,000 worshippers in multiple places across Canada. The success, Clark tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi, springs from fostering a Gospel-rooted church for the de-churched.
C: You are “passionate about contextualizing the gospel, teaching the Bible, and seeing people transformed by Jesus As I look at the Church in Canada, I become aware that when you’re not living like a counter cultural community, and start to wash down theology into some sort of mainstream message, y...
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Signposts of the New Creation
Hannah Marazzi with Makoto Fujimura
November 13, 2017
As the Convivium Team reflects on the launch of the Sacred Spaces Gallery, Hannah Marazzi sits down with Makoto Fujimura, artist, writer, and catalyst to understand the role of beauty, belonging, and art as signs of the New Creation.
Serving as an opportunity for contemplation, prayer, and the celebration of beauty, Sacred Spaces carves out a unique online space to meditate on the intersection of faith in ordinary life This past year, Convivium launched the Sacred Spaces Gallery, a unique online space devoted to contemplating th...
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The Spirited Way Forward
Hannah Marazzi
November 3, 2017
An Ottawa Writers Festival reading by Baha’i lawyer, scholar and human rights advocate Payam Akhavan affirms for Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi the sacred’s intersection of the secular.
What was the response to this framing of headlines and world events in spiritual terms, rather than precise legal terminology? How would they respond to this Baha’i mystic committed to a pragmatic undertaking of human rights work as connected to his sense of devotion to his own Baha’i faith? Surpris...
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How Friendship Builds Civilization
Hannah Marazzi with Eboo Patel
September 27, 2017
In the midst of the politics of uproar, Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi chats with Ismaili Muslim writer, speaker, neighbourhood builder, and Little League Coach Eboo Patel about creating a civil world through quiet acts of community.
We work with young people to build a norm of interfaith cooperation C: There is very much this thought in your interviews and writing that vibrancy within faith prompts one to action C: The work of multi-faith community building is slow, relationship by relationship, conversation by conversation, in...
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God In My Everything
Hannah Marazzi with Ken Shigematsu
September 6, 2017
Struck by the conviction of those around her that Ken Shigematsu’s book God in My Everything should be required reading for the contemporary Christian, Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi set out to have a conversation with the West Coast pastor and author.
I think that sometimes we feel that monks and people who pursue monastic ideals are only concerned about their personal spiritual life, or what happens in their cloistered community People tend to be busy, and yet, many want to have a deeper life with greater connection with God Pursuing God in pray...
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My Beautiful Books
Hannah Marazzi
September 1, 2017
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi offers up a hymn to books that refreshes our faith in the life of reading as sustenance of the soul.
So, too, did words on the pages of my childhood Bible begin to set forth the precepts for the kind of person I would strive to be, the framework through which I would begin to see the world, the stories I would carry with me Be it through the analysis of an academic work, the joyful return to a book...
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The Kingdom In A War Zone
Hannah Marazzi with Emily Way
July 25, 2017
Canadian nurse Emily Way recently returned from Iraq where she worked in a Samaritan’s Purse field hospital near the besieged city of Mosul. She discussed with Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi the impact on faith of treating the wounded and fallen in one of the world’s most brutal war zones.
How did you see the intersection of faith in the work and language employed by Samaritan’s Purse staff while in the field hospital? By medical staff, admin staff, chaplains, and the many people back home who have been warriors of prayer for the hospital We were under very high stress, in a very dang...
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Revisiting 'I Kissed Dating Goodbye'
Hannah Marazzi, with Joshua Harris, Jessica Van Der Wyngaard
July 21, 2017
Author Joshua Harris influenced how a generation of young Christians approached relationships. He and filmmaker Jessica Van Der Wyngaard talk to Convivium's Hannah Marazzi about their new documentary on whether Harris was too hasty in bidding dating adieu.
Josh said, "You know, maybe my book has something to do with how people are engaging with these issues today and the struggles that some people have In the 17 years since it was first published, people wrote letters, books, and statements on the Internet that were critical of my book We've encounter...
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Independent Image
Hannah Marazzi with Gregory Wolfe
July 18, 2017
For nearly 30 years, Seattle-based Image journal has striven to combine the beauty of art and the mystery of faith without deferring to what founding editor Greg Wolfe calls “any single tribal group in society.” Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi asked him about the motivation and the struggles of such a venture.
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God’s Perfect Gift Came Down
Hannah Marazzi
June 21, 2017
Convivium's Hannah Marazzi sits down with Krista Ewert, author of This is Ella to learn how Down Syndrome and her role as an advocate for inclusion and diversity have shaped her walk of faith.
When Ella arrived I, like so many other parents, had no idea what a life with Down syndrome really looked like Convivium sat down with Krista to learn about how Down Syndrome and her role as an advocate for inclusion and diversity has shaped her walk of faith ...
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Moments of Beauty Break In
Hannah Marazzi, Carolyn Weber
May 1, 2017
In literature and in physical creation, author Carolyn Weber tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi, are instants when the bird before our eyes becomes the miracle that God delights in making normal.
When we don’t give people faith as a viable form of living, I think we deny them even a very basic human right of being able to make a decision People of faith have an identity that lies in a story larger than their own moments CW: I have so appreciated the work of Victor Frankl who speaks to the di...
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City of Sparks
Hannah Marazzi, Tim Day
April 10, 2017
Convivium's Hannah Marazzi sits down with Tim Day of City Movement to discuss listening postures, the digital age, and Canada's transforming faith landscape.
At the time, the New York City Leadership Centre and the Lausanne Network within the Christian community were convening these conversations on the massive changes happening in the global world Some are in and some are out, and if it things get bad enough, then we better go to war?” Or is there a way...
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Writing With The Light On
Hannah Marazzi
March 13, 2017
Sarah Bessey, lay theologian, writer, and blogger is a Canadian whose voice has emerged to lead a generation. Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi interviewed Bessey by correspondence about the changing nature of theology in the public sphere, the importance of literature to a life of faith, and the imagery of the author’s beloved Canadian landscape that finds its way into all of her writing.
Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi interviewed Bessey by correspondence about the changing nature of theology in the public sphere, the importance of literature to a life of faith, and the imagery of the author’s beloved Canadian landscape that finds its way into all of her writing So, while it’s been a joy...
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Finding My Song
Hannah Marazzi
January 27, 2017
Music is the way Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor, meets the world. His song helped Hannah Marazzi find hers – in places heavy with the memory of suffering, where words fail and prayer falters.
In addition to the gift of his own story and presence, Pinchas in many ways gave me back the gift of music, and in many ways my own voice And so, for the first time as an adult, I heard my own voice rise, alone over the wind in the trees, a prayer in my own words, to my own God I will always remembe...
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The Weight of Waiting
Hannah Marazzi
December 19, 2016
November marked the release General Roméo Dallaire’s latest book, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD. Few figures are as well poised to speak on the subject as Dallaire, who served as the military commander of the United Nations Advance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) in 1994 and bore witness to the brutal work of the Hutus’ Interahamwe death squads.
The lack of a chapel at Canada’s military colleges in particular concerns Dallaire in its current inability to spiritually equip soldiers such as the veteran in our midst to answer these pressing questions The pop of bullets interrupted the radio dialogue: a line of child soldiers was advancing on t...