Reading Time: 4 minutes Religious and faith communities are among the most racially and ethnically diverse parts of Canadian society
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.
It’s the religious who tend most to favour diversity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Non-believers overwhelmingly believe every religious community in Canada, especially Muslims and evangelical Christians, hurt the country
Federal budget is short on innovation or social value
Reading Time: 3 minutes It assumes government is the agent of change and social stability for the middle class – the same philosophy that’s wrongly guided most spending for decades
The party’s over: without ideology, we lack leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutes Elections are no longer contests of ideas but rather competing marketing campaigns to see who gets to control the state’s levers of coercion
Euphemisms obscure truth about assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to take extraordinary care in defining the terms of medically-assisted death in Canada
Is the progressive political movement set to stall?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Five areas creating tension within the progressive movement must be resolved
Canadian Conservatives need to regain their focus
Reading Time: 3 minutes From economics to government’s role to the environment, the Conservatives have a lot of work to do if they are to win the next election
2015 election could have far reaching political consequences for Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 2015 vote could lead to deep uncertainty about how we’ll even choose our Parliament in the future
The emerging post-secular society
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s premature to declare the debates led by social conservatives over
It’s time to talk about end of life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of us do not have the means of providing palliative care for our loved ones