Blair, Hitchens and the Munk debate about religion
By Dennis Gruending The much-anticipated Munk Centre debate in Toronto between former Prime Minister Tony Blair and writer Christopher Hitchens has come and gone. A sell out crowd of about 2600 people...
View ArticleBev Oda ignored CIDA, betrayed KAIROS
By Dennis Gruending A year ago I wrote stories about the Conservative government’s ham-handed bullying of the Canadian ecumenical social justice group KAIROS. The story is now in the news again in a...
View ArticleReginald Bibby, Beyond the Gods and Back
By Dennis Gruending Sociologist Reginald Bibby is probably Canada’s closest observer of religious trends. He has been polling on religious practices and attitudes since 1975 and has placed the numbers...
View ArticleElection 2011, political and religious polarization
By Dennis Gruending Stephen Harper won his long-coveted majority government in the 2011 federal election, receiving just under 40 per cent of the votes cast by the approximately 60 per cent of eligible...
View ArticleReconsidering liberal Christianity
I read in the New York Times recently about an increasing attention being paid by American academic researchers to the history of liberal Christianity. The article says that in the U.S. the dominant...
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