Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings was printed in today's National Post, discussing how "popular understanding of religion and its place in public life is undergoing radical change." Love of neighbour and love of country arise from our intense human attraction to fidelity—that is fides, faith. It is the rightful role of religious belief to cultivate faith in that which is most powerfully external to us—God—and then by extension through the “little platoons” of which we are all a part. For the past 30 years, this essential element of religious faith has been discarded in most of our public discourse. Doing so reflected a simplistic and un-nuanced understanding of religion, which has contributed to the present “illiberal” (to use the term in its classic sense) marginalization of people of faith from the mainstream of public life. To read the article, click here.