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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,...
Christians in Palestine are crying out to their spiritual siblings worldwide for solidarity and support as they face death, displacement and...
Tim Hortons is facing sharp backlash from migrant worker advocates after announcing Monday it will hire 10,000 “new local team members” and that...
Headlines about Gen Z Canadians flocking back to church spread quickly through the mainstream media last fall. But sociologists who follow religious...
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?...
From February to May 2022, Yulia Goroshanska was among the several thousand fighters who defended Mariupol, Ukraine, in one of the war’s deadliest...
Muslims in Winnipeg are shaken and weighing safety precautions after gunmen opened fire at a U.S. mosque Monday, killing three people. Two teenage...
When Chantal Noseworthy was young, her family attended a Salvation Army church. But without access to an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter...
Days after Manitoba declared a public health emergency over rising HIV rates, a Christian home for people living with the immunodeficiency virus is...
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What would it mean to log an entire generation off social media and AI? The nationwide debate is evolving quickly from hypothetical to political...
“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical...
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...
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...
Back in 2018, a National Geographic headline caught my attention: “For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge...
Universities and colleges are fertile ground for promoting antisemitism, an American academic told an audience at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in...
I knew I wasn’t the target audience for the Premier’s Annual Christian Summit, featuring Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as the main speaker....
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...
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....
In 2012, Adam Campbell was out at an Ottawa nightclub when a very intoxicated Justin Williams approached his younger sister (names and some details...
“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...
On March 19, Broadview published the digital story, “The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent,” written by Rev. Shane Goldie, a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In a hospital ER treatment room, doctors have just given up their struggles to save a critically injured patient. “Call it,” says the senior...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When Sam O’Neill — a 34-year-old terminal cancer patient — decided to pursue medical assistance in dying (MAID), she was transferred from St...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Mary Fairhurst Breen’s daughter Sophie loved the theatre. “Our happy place was in a car on overnight theatre excursions,” Breen narrates over a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...