http://www.cardus.ca en Copyright 2010 Cardus Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:50 -0400 Cardus Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:50 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2078/ However complicated the new food era may be—however trendy or divisive—it pressures us to think holistically about the political, cultural, nutritional, and spiritual nature of food. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 However complicated the new food era may be—however trendy or divisive—it pressures us to think holistically about the political, cultural, nutritional, and spiritual nature of food. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/print_issues/1995/ Caritas in Veritate and the call to culture making. Includes the 2009 joint statement "Doing the truth in love," presented by the Center for Public Justice, Cardus and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Caritas in Veritate and the call to culture making. Includes the 2009 joint statement "Doing the truth in love," presented by the Center for Public Justice, Cardus and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1977/ At last week's God and the Global Economy conference, I began to imagine an economics grounded in the giving and receiving of gifts—no debts, no exploitation, less industrial extraction than creation care. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 At last week's God and the Global Economy conference, I began to imagine an economics grounded in the giving and receiving of gifts—no debts, no exploitation, less industrial extraction than creation care. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1971/ Perhaps the modern "acts of God" in times of disaster are the actions of those emergency responders, caregivers, and donors who care for and comfort those who suffer loss—and those scientists, engineers, and development professionals who mitigate the risks associated with increasing disasters. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Perhaps the modern "acts of God" in times of disaster are the actions of those emergency responders, caregivers, and donors who care for and comfort those who suffer loss—and those scientists, engineers, and development professionals who mitigate the risks associated with increasing disasters. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1796/ We have awareness. We have emergency response. We have stories and passion. We need strategy. We need implementation. We need law and justice, capital and foreign investment. Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 We have awareness. We have emergency response. We have stories and passion. We need strategy. We need implementation. We need law and justice, capital and foreign investment. http://www.cardus.ca/think/1570/ Consumer culture permeates every part of contemporary life—even our religious habits and practices. Dr. Vincent Miller, author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, will explain for us today what "advanced capitalism" does to our faith lives. His talk is an account of how capitalism commodifies religious faith, how we might be alert to these kinds of influences... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Consumer culture permeates every part of contemporary life—even our religious habits and practices. Dr. Vincent Miller, author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, will explain for us today what "advanced capitalism" does to our faith lives. His talk is an account of how capitalism commodifies religious faith, how we might be alert to these kinds of influences... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1573/ 2010 Comment Manifesto Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 2010 Comment Manifesto http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1514/ "Home" is tragically precarious and fragile, and is not easily sustained. Recent albums, books and films all share the same line of questioning: where is it? Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 "Home" is tragically precarious and fragile, and is not easily sustained. Recent albums, books and films all share the same line of questioning: where is it? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1303/ Societies grow through bottom-up institutions, dependent on trust, cooperation and shared aspirations. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Societies grow through bottom-up institutions, dependent on trust, cooperation and shared aspirations. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1234/ As long as our consciences are salved by feel-good coffee branding and knee-jerk check writing, we won't take the hard look we need at the architecture of global capitalism. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 As long as our consciences are salved by feel-good coffee branding and knee-jerk check writing, we won't take the hard look we need at the architecture of global capitalism. http://www.cardus.ca/organization/news/36/ Mike Goheen and Erin Glanville (eds) release The Gospel and Globalization, featuring chapters by Senior Fellows Jonathan Chaplin, Paul Williams and Cardus Researcher Robert Joustra. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Mike Goheen and Erin Glanville (eds) release The Gospel and Globalization, featuring chapters by Senior Fellows Jonathan Chaplin, Paul Williams and Cardus Researcher Robert Joustra. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1146/ As our economic troubles deepen, we are inclined to look inward . . . which is why principles in the latest social encyclical letter by Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, are such timely reminders of our obligations to the world's poor. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 As our economic troubles deepen, we are inclined to look inward . . . which is why principles in the latest social encyclical letter by Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, are such timely reminders of our obligations to the world's poor. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1019/ How does an African-American neocalvinist like me engage African societies like South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria? Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 How does an African-American neocalvinist like me engage African societies like South Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/968/ There's a whole new generation of young believers rising to positions of responsibility, becoming the up-and-in. Can the doughnut gospels of Western Christianity really be their model for ministry? Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 There's a whole new generation of young believers rising to positions of responsibility, becoming the up-and-in. Can the doughnut gospels of Western Christianity really be their model for ministry? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/906/ When we try to live as followers of Jesus, our priorities are no longer our own. These new priorities give new direction and purpose to our work on many questions in economics. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 When we try to live as followers of Jesus, our priorities are no longer our own. These new priorities give new direction and purpose to our work on many questions in economics. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/901/ Kenya has three apples. America wants those apples. How many apples does Kenya have? Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Kenya has three apples. America wants those apples. How many apples does Kenya have? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/897/ Might virtual community become a way of living out the New Testament's "one another" passages? Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Might virtual community become a way of living out the New Testament's "one another" passages? http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1058/ How small loans are dignifying, empowering and changing lives across the world—and redefining how we perceive the poor among us. Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 How small loans are dignifying, empowering and changing lives across the world—and redefining how we perceive the poor among us. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/862/ Throughout the 1990s, we had often spoken about the need for a Christian think tank—one that could help Christians in any vocation make better decisions—but my parents specifically founded IGE because Christians were too often a part of the problem—through ignorance or arrogance, the methodology of engagement betrayed the respect and love of the Message. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Throughout the 1990s, we had often spoken about the need for a Christian think tank—one that could help Christians in any vocation make better decisions—but my parents specifically founded IGE because Christians were too often a part of the problem—through ignorance or arrogance, the methodology of engagement betrayed the respect and love of the Message. http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/840/ Comment is a journal of public opinion bringing Christian voices to the dialogue in the public sphere, seeking the common good. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Comment is a journal of public opinion bringing Christian voices to the dialogue in the public sphere, seeking the common good.