Reading Time: 4 minutes Those with faith are far more likely to help their fellow man
Author: Ray Pennings
Ray Pennings co-founded Cardus in 2000 and currently serves as Executive Vice President, working out of the Ottawa office. Ray has a vast amount of experience in Canadian industrial relations and has been involved in public policy discussions and as a political activist at all levels of government.
Ray’s grasp of applied public theology is evident not only through his writings, but through his volunteer efforts as well. He was founding president of EduDeo (formerly Worldwide Christian Schools) and has served as Chair on the board of Redeemer University College, and as a board member for the Civitas Society and the Rosebud School for the Arts. Ray currently sits on the adjudication committee for the Redeemer Centre for Christian Scholarship and on the Champions Circle for Compassionate Ottawa.
Hunkering down – reluctantly – for the holidays
Reading Time: 4 minutes The longer the pandemic and the necessity of restrictions drags on, the costlier it becomes for our inner selves
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
Think 2020 is tough? 2021 shaping up to be even tougher
Reading Time: 4 minutes When the government’s miraculous money faucet is turned off, what happens next?
What Trump’s leadership style says about us
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to reflect not just on what politics is doing to our democracy but what it’s doing to us
Investing in family and faith to minimize social isolation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Too many of us struggle with being disconnected. New studies show that social institutions help lower loneliness
Where’s the outcry over Quebec’s restrictive Bill 21?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The relatively low value Canadians assign to religious freedom and the tepid opposition to secularism laws are worrisome
There’s a place for religion in common and public life
Reading Time: 3 minutes At a time of heightened social divisions and isolation, not to mention divisive politics, religious illiteracy is costly
Religious freedom benefits everyone
Reading Time: 3 minutes But hard secularism and the marginalization of some Canadians are reducing our deep pluralism and chipping away at our freedoms
Make room for religious diversity in the workplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Banning Quebec frontline civil servants from wearing religious symbols would show obstinate and dangerous secularism