It was good fun, last night (November 2), to watch a video in which a Nigerian Muslim imam told a feisty group of mostly Christian Kenyans that they best be about doing what their leader (Jesus) would like them to do. The means by which Imam Muhammad Ashafa, and his Pentecostal pastor fellow peacemonger, James […]
OttawaWatch: Convivium and Neighbourliness
Last week, two Ottawa events communicated the faith-political interface on different levels. * * * The Hill Lecture featured National Post columnist Raymond de Souza, a Catholic priest and editor of a newly-established periodical, Convivium, committed to communicating “faith in our common life.” The lecture and periodical are sponsored by Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal, […]
OttawaWatch: Elephants in the room
There are two elephants to identify in connection with Dennis Gruending’s new book, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Ideologies in Canadian Public Life (Kingsley Publishing, 238 pp. $22) This comely pair of beasts can best be described as the Mennonites and the Canadian Labour Congress. For today’s OttawaWatch, the room in which these elephants are found […]
Their Song was not in Vain – OttawaWatch
They are called the New Life Acappella Singers and they come from Calgary. I first heard them singing one day last week, as I headed toward the Parliament Buildings Centre Block cafeteria for a bite of lunch. The sounds of the 23rd Psalm (to the tune of Crimond) were wafting down the Hall of Honour. […]
OttawaWatch: Tyndale vs. Bush
Several weeks ago, Prem Watsa, an India-born evangelical Anglican and supporter of Tyndale University College and Seminary, made the school an offer. As it turned out, the school’s leadership had little choice but to congenially — and regretfully — decline. Watsa is president of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. His investment acumen has caused some in […]
Two voices
Two journalists whose works are worth watching, for the next few years, are Ken Whyte and Paul Wells, both of Maclean’s Magazine. Whyte is editor and publisher and Wells, one of its preeminent columnists and bloggers. Both have a fair understanding of what has happened in western-shaped politics over the past quarter century, from the emergence of Preston Manning’s […]
A fast trip through the far west
Last week was travel time. So, the “left coast” and “redneck” Alberta are the two focal points of today’s and next week’s OttawaWatch. * * * The “left coast” is what Canada’s west coast is considered to be, by those who observe British Columbia’s occasional penchant for harbouring left-leaning governments, big labour unions and counter-culturists of all sizes and […]
Understanding the times
Don Bastian is an accomplished book editor, a serious Christian believer, a Free Methodist lay leader and son of a bishop of the same denomination. He also has been, and remains, a fine advisor to many Christian authors. On September 11, 2001, an opinion piece co-authored by Bastian appeared in the National Post, providing some astute insights into […]
OttawaWatch: Multi-track diplomacy
During the recent OttawaWatch hiatus, I received notice of a session at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, featuring Ambassador John McDonald (retired) from Washington, DC, head of the Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy (IMTD). McDonald, now nearing 90, was at the university at the behest of the head of its conflict studies department, Vern Neufeld Redekop, […]
Ideology vs. idealism
With this piece, we will have spent two weeks talking about Jack Layton’s death. I promise — and trust my readers to hold me to it — to get onto other faith-community-political topics by the beginning of September. * * * Readers of last week’s OttawaWatch may recall that I wondered what the clergy at […]
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