The Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal launches The Convivium Project—a project dedicated to faith in our common life. We are convinced that religious faith is critical to our Canadian common life. That is a contested position today, as formidable forces seek to drive religion to the margins of public life. That's not good for religion, but neither is it good for our common life.
The Convivium Project will engage Canadians who take faith seriously as an essential part of the conversation we have about our life together. That's what convivium means—living together. It implies a certain good cheer and hospitable spirit, as found at a festive banquet—a convivium. The Convivium Project brings together citizens—Canadians of differing convictions and religious confessions—to advance that conversation and contend for the role of faith in our common life.
It's a project sponsored by Canada's leading Christian think tank: Cardus. It's led by two of Canada's leading religious voices—Peter Stockland and Father Raymond J. de Souza. The flagship of the project is Convivium, the magazine. The project includes public lectures, intellectual formation for young people, symposia and seminars connecting those who are strengthening faith in our common life.
The Convivium Project will be an authoritative voice for the role of religion in Canadian society.
If you want to know how to defend the role of religion in public life; if you want to show your children that a faithful citizen is not a contradiction in terms; if you want to encourage university students to challenge the secularist myths they are regularly taught—then you need to join The Convivium Project.
Members of Convivium get the magazine, of course. More than that, they join a community. A convivial, cheerful community that connects citizens committed to the renewal of Canadian culture and our common life.
Will you join us now?
During the past two decades, the Centre for Cultural Renewal existed to explain faith to culture and culture to faith. That mission remains the Centre's raison d'etre, but from 2010 forward it has fresh dynamism by joining with Cardus to become the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal.
Peter Stockland
Director, Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal
The Centre for Cultural Renewal does terrific work on issues that, although central to good public policy and to the concerns of many citizens, are almost entirely absent in contemporary policy debates. It deserves the attention and support of everyone interested in grounding policies and discussions in sound first principles.
—John Robson
Columnist, Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa
The Centre ... maintains the tradition of coherent reasoned argument on controversial social, political and cultural matters. Moderate in the true sense of the word, the Centre is a necessary voice in the ongoing discussion over the present and future of our civilization and our country.
—Philip Marchand
Senior Books Columnist, The Toronto Star
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Fr. Raymond de Souza
Peter Stockland
Ray Pennings is Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Cardus, working out of our Calgary office, where he lives with his wife Kathy and son, Chris. Ray brings a host of skills...