Religion
Why I’ll make the sign of the cross for the rest of my life
How this Greek Orthodox gesture became part of me
April/May 2023
In this issue: My grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust. This Passover, a packet of old postcards will help me remember him. An interview with journalistic reformer Duncan McCue; Illustrated: Saskatchewan Mennonites’ fight to halt the construction of a uranium refinery in their community.
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Religion
Easter calls us to change the world
United Church moderator Carmen Lansdowne on why the hope of the Resurrection should spur us to envision a more just reality
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Editor's Letter
Introducing Broadview’s first podcast
"And Also Some Women" looks at biblical women through a feminist lens
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Theology
Why Jesus is history’s most overlooked conservationist
The son of God would likely have approved of environmentalists' blockades and sit-ins
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Environment
How Prairie Mennonites took on a uranium refinery in the 1970s and won
Near Warman, Sask., a young philosophy student helped start a movement that halted the project
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Culture
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ explores the burden of belonging
The new film captures the fraught relationship between an immigrant mother and a son who just wants to fit in
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Interview
For more than two decades, Duncan McCue has been a reformer of Canadian news
The Toronto investigative journalist is doing his part to help decolonize the media
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Politics
Failed Canadian political candidates question who the selection process leaves out
All major parties do extensive background checks on their candidates, but researchers call the exercise of recruiting and picking candidates a "black box" with little public oversight
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Society
This woodworker helps veterans heal through traditional crafting
Rob Cosman's Purple Heart Project has trained more than 150 former soldiers from around the world
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Culture
Sheima Benembarek’s ‘Halal Sex’ explores Muslim women’s intimate lives
The author on the powerful role of shame and the responsibility she felt to her sources
