A minister talks about growing up in Adolf Hitler’s Germany by Paul Knowles Martin Rumscheidt on his father’s complicity in the Nazi extermination of Jewish people.
New Observer editor appointed by Lauren Hodgson I’m pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the selection of Jocelyn Bell as the new editor and publisher
5 celebrity-led movements changing activism by Pieta Woolley October 2017 may go down in history as the turning point for celebrity protest. Arguably for the first time, actors, singers, chefs,
A tale of two cancers by Catherine Gordon One year after the writer discovered she had breast cancer, her sister in California received the same diagnosis. They both recovered, but
Interview with Sister Teresa Forcades by Nancy Fornasiero The Benedictine nun, physician and feminist theologian from Catalonia, Spain talks about her social activism
Historical statues are a battleground for contemporary issues by David Wilson If statues could talk, they might tell us a bit about context
What we really mean when we say “spiritual” by Antonio Gualtieri 40% of Canadians consider themselves spiritual but not religious. Is the meaning of the word becoming distorted?
The other residential schools by Trisha Elliott Nine Canadian boarding schools for the deaf and blind have faced legal action. Former students remember the abuse and displacement they experienced
As we approach the future of feminism, this is the new masculinity by Josiah Neufeld Despite huge strides, gender equality remains elusive. Two recent books urge men to redefine themselves.
I spent 48 hours alone in a treehouse to channel Thoreau by Anne Bokma "Maybe a two-day sojourn deep in the woods is a good way to confront our aloneness and even find some kind of