- Anglican Church of Canada Archives
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- Christians on the Left: The Importance of the Social Gospel in the Canadian Social Democratic Tradition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
This article looks at the history of the Canadian social democratic movement and highlights the preponderant role played by leftist Christians. Finding their inspiration in a social interpretation of Christ's message, these Christians became heavily involved in the process of creating a new political party, clearly to the left of the political spectrum, and helped shape its discourse.
- ClimateFast
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Library: Religion Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- A Dweller in Peace
The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
- G-Dog
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Unlikely gang expert Jesuit Father Boyle, known as G-Dog, creates Homeboy Industries, leading former gang involved youth to become a positive force in their communities.
- Getting your story into the media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
- Professor Randall Hansen
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
- IJV endorses United Church Working Group call to boycott settlement products
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The United Church of Canada's Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy's report has been attacked by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. IJV is supporting the right of the Church to make its own policy, free from intimidation.
- Learning to Love Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
- Liberation Theologies - Online Library and Resources
Resource Type: Website
Liberation theology in Latin America has inspired forms of liberation theology around the world, as well as liberation psychology and liberation ecology. This site features a wide selection of articles and books on various aspects of liberation theologies.
- 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".
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
- The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
- Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
- The State of the Spirit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The text of Michael Lerner's "State of the Spirit" address given at the founding conference of The TIKKUN Community.
- A Theology of Connexions
Short version
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
- United Church of Canada Archives
Resource Type: Organization
- Vision Statement of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America
Resource Type: Article
Vision Statement of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America
- Walking Together
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Walking Together is a report on the political, economic, social, and cultural concerns of the people of the western Northwest Territories.
- When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- World Council of Churches Library & Archives
Resource Type: Organization
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