Honouring the core insights in both "Social Justice" and the "Big Society" requires affirming simultaneously the norms of social equality and differentiated responsibility. We must get beyond thinking of these goals as if they were in a zero-sum game—or as if we could even conceive of voting for one but not the other—and begin to conceive of them as part of the single fabric of human social nature.

Jonathan Chaplin

This Canadian election did not make any fundamental shifts in the understanding of the ways and means of the government. There are still two basic tools in the political toolbox: private-for-profit tax cutting and redistributive public powers. Recently, Cardus argued that a third, often-overlooked tool in the public policy toolbox sustains much of the social architecture of these two sectors: the charitable or not-for-profit sector.

Michael Van Pelt

with particular reference to the charitable sector

Ray Pennings

Urban Religious Communities: Problem Solvers or Trouble Makers?

Geoff Ryan Robert Joustra

Renewing Canada's Social Architecture by Investing in the Civic Core and the "Third Sector"

Ray Pennings Stephen Lazarus

Michael Van Pelt Robert Joustra

Living on the Streets

Michael Van Pelt Richard Greydanus

The Halo Project assesses the socio-economic benefit that a religious congregation contributes to its local community.