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Why bisexual Christians still feel unseen in affirming congregations

Why bisexual Christians still feel unseen in affirming congregations

In the course of my work, I am often invited to speak at churches and Christian events on the topic of sexuality, gender, and faith. A few years ago,...

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Jamie arpin-ricci

Palestinian Christians seek solidarity amid war and displacement

Palestinian Christians seek solidarity amid war and displacement

Christians in Palestine are crying out to their spiritual siblings worldwide for solidarity and support as they face death, displacement and...

28.05.2026 5

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Josiah Neufeld

Tim Hortons hiring push pits workers against each other, advocates say

Tim Hortons hiring push pits workers against each other, advocates say

Tim Hortons is facing sharp backlash from migrant worker advocates after announcing Monday it will hire 10,000 “new local team members” and that...

27.05.2026 6

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Charlotte macdonald and james adair

Is Gen Z really coming back to church?

Is Gen Z really coming back to church?

Headlines about Gen Z Canadians flocking back to church spread quickly through the mainstream media last fall. But sociologists who follow religious...

26.05.2026 3

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Sarah Grishpul

The objects and rituals that shape faith at home

The objects and rituals that shape faith at home

What does faith look like at home? Do you have small objects, rituals or moments that perhaps help ground you spiritually or shape your daily routine?...

25.05.2026 7

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Ashely crouch

A Ukrainian soldier on surviving Mariupol and Russian captivity

From February to May 2022, Yulia Goroshanska was among the several thousand fighters who defended Mariupol, Ukraine, in one of the war’s deadliest...

21.05.2026 9

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Katharine Lake Berz

Winnipeg Muslims shaken, weighing safety after deadly U.S. mosque shooting

Muslims in Winnipeg are shaken and weighing safety precautions after gunmen opened fire at a U.S. mosque Monday, killing three people. Two teenage...

20.05.2026 7

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Josiah Neufeld

Learning to Sign ‘Amen’

When Chantal Noseworthy was young, her family attended a Salvation Army church. But without access to an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter...

19.05.2026 7

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Anne Thériault

High cost of compassion threatens to shutter Christian home for people with HIV in Winnipeg

Days after Manitoba declared a public health emergency over rising HIV rates, a Christian home for people living with the immunodeficiency virus is...

19.05.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

What Broadview’s predecessor chose not to see about the Edmonton Residential School

“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical...

15.05.2026 10

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David Kim-Cragg

Should kids under 16 be banned from social media and AI? We asked teens

What would it mean to log an entire generation off social media and AI? The nationwide debate is evolving quickly from hypothetical to political...

14.05.2026 10

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Ashely crouch

What Broadview’s predecessor chose not to see about the Edmonton Residential School

“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical...

14.05.2026 10

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David Kim-Cragg

Winnipeg exhibit helps tell story of Sikh immigrant who put life on line

On an unseasonably warm winter day in January 1916, a 27-year-old man walked into the enlistment office in Winnipeg and volunteered to fight in the...

13.05.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

Russia’s religious push into Africa

Russia has found a new way to expand its reach into Africa — and it doesn’t involve soldiers.  In the face of crippling Western sanctions and a...

12.05.2026 10

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Deogracious kalima

Broadview went searching through its past. The findings were uncomfortable.

Back in 2018, a National Geographic headline caught my attention: “For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge...

11.05.2026 10

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Jocelyn Bell

Classroom antisemitism in full swing, U.S. academic tells Winnipeg synagogue

Universities and colleges are fertile ground for promoting antisemitism, an American academic told an audience at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in...

07.05.2026 10

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John Longhurst

Inside Alberta’s Christian Leadership Summit

I knew I wasn’t the target audience for the Premier’s Annual Christian Summit, featuring Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as the main speaker....

07.05.2026 10

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Blaine gregg

How one Cree grandmother is reshaping the future of law in Canada

Grandmothers often play the role of guide and nurturer in their families. Val Napoleon is a grandmother to four children, but her role as a guide goes...

06.05.2026 10

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Shauna mackinnon

My mom donated her body to science

In February 2025, I received an invitation to a group funeral for my mother and 72 deceased strangers. As I scanned the details, my head felt light....

05.05.2026 10

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Valerie howes

How restorative justice can heal communities

In 2012, Adam Campbell was out at an Ottawa nightclub when a very intoxicated Justin Williams approached his younger sister (names and some details...

29.04.2026 10

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Shauna mackinnon

People in war-torn Sudan ‘are left with nothing’

“I’m sorry we’re running late, but one of our offices was just shelled.” That was how an online meeting started last week when I met with the...

28.04.2026 10

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Christina philips

‘Show me where the Bible mentions sweetgrass,’ a critic demands

On March 19, Broadview published the digital story, “The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent,” written by Rev. Shane Goldie, a...

24.04.2026 10

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Broadview Staff

A new mental health movement is rediscovering ancient wisdom

Canada’s drop to 25th place in the 2026 World Happiness Report released in March was largely due to declining well-being among young people. Social...

23.04.2026 20

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Cynthia wesley-esquimaux and alexandra shimo

Award-winning playwright Erin Shields reimagines the Gospels

The Marys in Jesus’ entourage have long been a bit of a mystery. The problems begin when you try to count them. There are anywhere from three to...

22.04.2026 10

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Anne Thériault

Alberta’s Christian Leadership Summit puts church-state separation at risk, critics say

A two-day gathering described as “a direct dialogue between Christian leadership and Alberta’s government” is set to take place in Red Deer next...

21.04.2026 10

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Ashely crouch

One family, many faiths

Every weekday, Imam Abdul Wasiu Ibrahim steered his 2003 Mercedes-Benz C-class along an untarred, dusty road in Aule community in Akure, the capital...

21.04.2026 10

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Innocent eteng

There’s a Jewish community in Iran?

After a synagogue in Tehran was bombed in U.S.-Israeli air strikes last week, killing more than a dozen people, many people outside Iran were...

17.04.2026 20

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Arfa Rana

How HBO’s The Pitt portrays faith in a non-preachy way

In a hospital ER treatment room, doctors have just given up their struggles to save a critically injured patient. “Call it,” says the senior...

15.04.2026 20

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Douglas Tindal

Trump’s Jesus-style AI image fuels global backlash and Vatican tensions

Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI image to Truth Social showing himself in Jesus-style robes, with glowing hands healing a...

14.04.2026 20

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Ashely crouch

Canada’s oldest organ builder and the sound of Canadian history

The wooden furniture in the Supreme Court of Canada’s main courtroom was installed in 1948 as a side quest by a company much more revered for its...

09.04.2026 20

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Ghazal Azizi

Inside Canada’s only witch school

Kiki Keskinen is a witch. She’s also a journalism professor at Carleton University, an entrepreneur and a former PR professional, but it’s the...

08.04.2026 10

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Vanessa Chiasson

How Quebec’s secularism law is forcing young women to rethink their futures

Zeinab Kabeel dreamed of becoming a prosecutor.  Nevien Waly aspired to become a teacher, after stepping away from a career in finance.  The best of...

31.03.2026 20

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Ruby Pratka

Nowruz in a time of war

What does celebration look like in the middle of a war?  For many Iranians who marked Nowruz this year, celebration has meant holding onto tradition...

30.03.2026 20

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Paniz Vedavarz

Can institutions claim freedom of conscience?

When Sam O’Neill — a 34-year-old terminal cancer patient — decided to pursue medical assistance in dying (MAID), she was transferred from St...

27.03.2026 10

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William sweet

The U.S. bishop who urged Christians to “prepare for martyrdom” explains why

Bishop Robert Hirschfeld is the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire. After the fatal shooting in January of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis,...

26.03.2026 20

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Christopher White

How queer Christians are holding onto faith amid rising political violence

To say it’s a strange time to be a queer and trans person in America is an understatement. Reconciling the current cultural and political moment in...

25.03.2026 20

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Sassafras patterdale

What fasting is teaching me this Lent

I was born and raised in Senegal, where 90 percent of the population is Muslim. With Islam shaping much of daily life and Ramadan’s fast standing as...

24.03.2026 20

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Samuel dansokho

How Ontario laws are ‘punishing the homeless’ amid growing crises

In September 2024, Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood before the cameras at a new housing construction site in Cobourg, Ont., and said that the homeless...

20.03.2026 20

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Sherwood Hines

Film project centres the lives of young people killed by fentanyl

Mary Fairhurst Breen’s daughter Sophie loved the theatre. “Our happy place was in a car on overnight theatre excursions,” Breen narrates over a...

19.03.2026 20

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Paniz Vedavarz

The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent

Each morning during Lent, before the world fully wakes, I step outside and place my feet on the cold ground. I light a braid of sweetgrass and let the...

19.03.2026 40

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Shane goldie

How Albertans of faith are countering separatist, anti-immigrant sentiment

I’ve served in the United Church in Alberta since 1988 — in rural, urban and non-profit-agency capacities — and now in an inner-city...

13.03.2026 20

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John Pentland

Iraq’s child brides

Sarah Hussein remembers the weight of her classmate’s textbooks stacked awkwardly in her arms. She was just 11 years old and had come to collect...

13.03.2026 20

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Robert bociaga

What if Lent began with a question?

In Spring 2023, my 20-something daughter, Olivia Mater, and I took a road trip from Tobermory to Thunder Bay, Ont. We were both at crossroads: I was...

11.03.2026 20

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Sheryl Spencer

Journalist Jessica Barrett on the keys to solving the housing crisis

06.03.2026 40

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Christopher White

Canada’s children are breathing the climate crisis

06.03.2026 20

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Paniz Vedavarz

United Church has ‘grave concerns’ about Iran airstrikes, criticizes Carney’s stance

05.03.2026 20

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Sarah Grishpul

This Lent, I’m choosing friendship over spiritual gold medals

03.03.2026 20

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Alydia Smith

This Montreal church has baptized more than 140 Iranians since 2020

27.02.2026 30

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Ghazal Azizi

Religious OCD took over my childhood. Years later, I learned how to manage it.

27.02.2026 30

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Macenzie Rebelo

Why I chose to ‘do nothing’ this Lent

A few years ago, my husband and I began writing our values and practices on little pieces of paper and posting them on our fridge as a way to support...

26.02.2026 40

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Robin mcgauley