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A Long Way from Inclusive
June 19, 2013 |
André Schutten
Yesterday, Peter Stockland penned another exceptional blog in which he accurately describes Québec's religion problems as symptoms of a bigger issue. By emptying meaning ...
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After Meaning: Quebec's Religion Problems are Mere Symptoms
June 18, 2013 |
Peter Stockland
Several years ago my son was cycling home to his apartment in Outremont when he was approached at a corner by neighbours asking for a somewhat unusual favour.
They were devout J...
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Consumers of our Neighbourhoods
June 17, 2013 |
Kathryn de Ruijter
During our first year of marriage, my husband and I lived in the ground floor apartment of a big, old, red-brick house. On either side of us were similar houses split into apart...
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Persistence, Underwritten by Hope
June 14, 2013 |
Milton Friesen
This past week I had the privilege of participating in the Neighbours: Policies and Programs unconference put on by the Tamarack Institute in Kitchener, Ontario. One of the key ...
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Persuasion
In a fragmented world, we get posturing, pronouncements, and political ultimatums. In other words, we get just the sort of public discourse we deserve: emotive appeals that shame our opponents, coupled with sabre-rattling denouncements that rally our troops. What's important is that we preach loud enough to be sure everyone in our choir hears us.
Well, we're not willing to play by these rules. So this issue of Comment is devoted to recovering a lost art: persuasion.
Contributors Include: Chidi Achara, James K.A. Smith, Nicholas Wolterstorff with James K.A. Smith, Allison Backous, Calvin Seerveld, and more ...
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Faith-based organizations nurture people's most deeply held beliefs, sanctify their lives' most vital relationships, and comfort their deepest pains and most profound sorrows. Do we have room for this in our cities' plans?
Peter Menzies is a Senior Fellow with Cardus, and past publisher and editor-in-chief of one of Canada's major daily newspapers.
Rather than treat all organizations, employees, clients, and students as if they shared the same vision of sin and good, harm and flourishing, the government should acknowledge and accept the differences.
Stanley Carlson-Thies is a Cardus Senior Fellow, and founder and President of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, a Washington, DC-area nonpartisan think tank.
I care about justice; must I be an activist?
SIX QUESTIONS . . . I think all good art should do that in people's lives: help them to do more than just look around, but to actually see the world God has made for them to delight in.