Broadview Magazine

07/26/2025

What I discovered during my silent sojourn in Northern Ireland

07/25/2025

Nearly 1 in 3 of Canada’s 27,000 faith buildings are expected to close in the next decade, but the consequences won’t just impact church communities. Over 900 nonprofits rely on these spaces, and most say they have no alternative if they disappear.

Read more about the impacts here:

From housing to disaster relief, faith spaces have long filled civic gaps. A new report calls them essential public assets.

07/25/2025

"We seem to have three issues that resurface year after year: the length and placement of announcements in the service, our baptism policy for those who don’t attend regularly and finding volunteers for committees and events. What can we do?"

Question Box columnist Christopher White offers helpful answers to issues that resurface year after year

07/24/2025

One writer dives into the global movement to create swimmable cities

07/24/2025

The United Church of Canada’s national meeting is happening August 7–11!

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07/23/2025

The Community of Concern campaigned to exclude q***r ministers. Now the denomination is reckoning with the damage — and preparing an apology.

07/22/2025

Ghazal Azizi and Paniz Vedavarz unpack pro-war propaganda and the push to “Make Iran Great Again”

07/22/2025

Balraj Kahlon and One Voice Canada are advocating for policy changes through community action

07/21/2025

The core of the remedy is providing choice to people with disabilities living in Nova Scotia.

The old system focused on proving disability and then slotting people into a predetermined box of supports. The new one helps people build the life they want in the community where they want to live.

Advocates have spent decades pushing for independent living — and a landmark reform could finally deliver it. But can the province follow through?

07/20/2025

In Toronto’s Kensington Market, an encampment sprang up beside St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church in 2022 — a response to the growing crisis of homelessness made worse by the pandemic.

For Mother Maggie Helwig and her parish, the encampment allowed its residents to survive and support each other. For others, it was a problem to be solved.

Maggie Helwig and her Toronto parish saw the tent sanctuary as a way for residents to survive. Others saw it as a problem to be solved.

07/19/2025

Your friend just shared misinformation. Do you speak up?

Our ethics columnist weighs in.

In a culture of online outrage, the urge to correct can be strong

07/19/2025

Giller Prize-winning author Ian Williams's latest book is all about conversations: what makes a good one, how we censor ourselves and what’s at risk when we lack deep, meaningful dialogue with others.

He spoke to Broadview about what it takes to converse in today’s world.

Read the full interview here:

Ian Williams, the award-winning author of What I Mean to Say, explores how empathy and vulnerability can revive the lost art of meaningful dialogue