- Aboriginal Ontario
Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- Beyond the Sacred
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
- The Bible: Genesis to Malachi
Resource Type: Book
- The Bible: New Testament
Resource Type: Book
- Billy Graham and David Mainse Recognized for their Lifetimes of Integrity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An association of 3,000 Canadian Christian ministries will recognize Billy Graham (represented by grandson Will Graham) and David Mainse for lifetimes of personal and organizational integrity. Coast Plaza Hotel, Calgary AB Sept 24, 8pm.
- The Brick Testament
Resource Type: Website
The Brick Testament is the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with over 3,600 illustrations, made entirely out of Lego bricks, that retell more than 300 stories from The Bible.
Launched first as a website in 2001, then as a published book series in 2003, The Brick Testament project is an ongoing one-man labour of love, constructed and photographed entirely by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith.
- Canadian Christian Sourcebook
The Essential Guide to Canada's Christian Ministries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Christian ministries and resources.
- Canadian Churches and Social Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Catholic Missions In Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Catholic Worker Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933.
- The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Christian pacifism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith.
- Christian Reformed Church in North America
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Christian Science Committees on Publication in Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Christians for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
A report on the First Latin American Encounter of Christians for Socialism, held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1972.
- Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Day, Dorothy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- Encyclopedia of American Religions
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Religion
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- Everything Must Change
Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
McLaren poses the question "How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?" McLaren believes that we live in a world based on a wrong assumption of what is important in our lives, what is worth fighting for and what is the purpose of humanity's existence. He believes it is important to look at the teachings of Jesus to move to a positive view of humanity to overcome the dysfuntionality-economic, political and social of the world.
- Foundations of Christianity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1953
I have proceeded to describe the roots of primitive Christianity without intending either to extol or stigmatize it, but merely to understand it.
- A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
- Institute for: Christian Life in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
The various essays in the book "The Institue for: Christian Life in Canada" raise many social issues and problems that are found in the four major regions of Canada. The political and economic structures of our nation often create marginalization as the inability to get out of structured oppressive situations, and it is argued that this has been forced on the peoples of the Atlantic region.
- Interactions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
These are nots of remarks made at an all-day consultation between New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- The Irresistible Revolution
Living as an Ordinary Radical
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Liberation theology
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Theology of Liberation is a theology in which the salvation or liberation wrought by Christ is examined not only in terms of liberation from individual sin, but also in terms of liberation in other spheres: the aspirations of oppressed peoples and social classes; an understanding of history in which the human being is seen as assuming conscious responsibility for human destiny; and Christ the Saviour liberating the human race from sin, which is the root of all disruption of friendship and of all injustice and oppression.
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- Lutheran Church -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Many Roots of Christian Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27
Engels 1890 - 1895
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1895
Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany
- A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
- 1992: A White Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- On Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Arendt examines the American, French, and Russian revolutions and draws conclusions about the meaning of revolution.
- Peace churches
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Photo Exhibit: Hyphen Islam-Christianity - Beit Zatoun Toronto - September 11, 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
An exhibition of 60 stunning photographs from Lebanon opening on September 11, at Beit Zatoun TORONTO. Hyphen Islam-Christianity brings together two religions, two cultures, respecting each other's differences and contributions.
- Plain people
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Christian groups characterized by separation from the world and simple living, including plain dress.
- Pontifical Mission Societies
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Scholars gathered this past weekend for the inaugural meeting of The Jesus Project in a renewed quest for the historical Jesus. The project is an effort by historians, biblical scholars, and theologians.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
- Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
- The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
- Schweitzer, Albert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. (1875-1965).
- Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Shakers
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, was a Protestant religious sect.
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Sojourner Truth
A Life, a Symbol
Resource Type: Book
A biography of Sojourner Truth, a famous northern slave, born in the 1790's. A devout Christian, she came to symbolize the shame of slavery and the promise of women's emancipation.
- Statement on Another Attack by the Far Right on Christians and Democracy in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
More than 72 people including children were killed, and more than 200 injured, in a suicide bombing in Lahore’s Gulshan-e-Bagh.
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Sub-merge: Living Deep in a Shallow World
Service, Justice and Contemplation Among the World's Poor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Why I am not a Christian and other Essays
Resource Type: Book
- Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
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