When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, ...
Ne sous-estimons pas le pouvoir transformateur d’une crise. Une parole intérieure cache en elle un élan de vie à saisir. L’épreuve peut alors devenir un « moment d’éternité » qui transcende ...
Depuis 2006, le Québec débat âprement des règles gouvernant la laïcité de ses institutions et se trouve confronté à deux modèles apparemment irréconciliables : le républicanisme « jacobin ...
Des siècles de civilisation occidentale nous ont habitués à dissocier l’âme et le corps, le pur et l’impur, l’esprit et la matière, la religion et le sexe. L’histoire est pourtant traversée ...
"As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A ...
Shedding a bright light on a dark side of Canadian politics, Losing Control critically examines Canada’s social conservative movement and discovers a reactionary, anti-reform insurgency of evangelical ...
Marguerite Van Die is a member of the history department and head of Theological Studies, Queen’s Theological College.
Listen to any news broadcast today and the message comes through loud and clear: Islam is a religion of violence and behind every Muslim there lurks a potential terrorist. Islam is a threat to values ...