With the ascension of the federal Conservative Party, there have been two important attempts made to measure the influence that religious voters–especially those associated with The Religious Right–wield within the Harper government. One of the…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending In the Hill Times
A nice interview occasioned by the publication of his new book , Pulpit and Politics (which doesn’t seem to be up on Amazon with his other stuff yet). The Hill Times interview is fairly substantive. In my favorite bit, he talks about the influence of t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Paul Dewar On Faith And Politics
…from Gruending:You cannot be a person of faith without being political, says Paul Dewar, the New Democratic Party MP for Ottawa Centre. In early 2009, Dewar spoke to my Faith and Public Life class at the Ottawa School of Theology and Spirituality.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.
– The Cons are once again getting noticed in the world – this time thanks to Serge Schemann pointing out their callous treatment of asbestos widow Michaela Keyserlingk in the New York Times:
This summer, to Mrs. …
BigCityLib Strikes Back: On Nice Guys
Bernie Farber, running for Liberal MPP up in Thornhill, has a good column in Shalom Life, touting the Ontario Libs accomplisments in health-care.Dennis Gruending, whose excellent blog explores the interconnections between Pulpit and Politics has a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Numbers To Ponder
40% Total30% Catholic52% Jewish12% Muslim50% Regular church-goers27% Non-religiousDennis Gruending ties them all together, and even manages to shed light on this post election meeting between Msgr. Patrick Powers, the general secretary of the Canadian …
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