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Brian Dijkema

Brian Dijkema is the President, Canada at Cardus, and a senior editor of Comment. He is a public policy analyst, public commentator, and writer. He regularly works with municipal, provincial, federal governments, and civil servants on a wide range of policy issues. He consults widely with industry, business, labour, and civil society institutions. He is called upon to make presentations on research and policy to legislatures, and industry professionals, and contributes to media outlets on cultural and political issues across Canada and internationally, including the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, The Hub, National Affairs, and more. Brian and his wife Nicole, along with their four children, call Hamilton home.

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Brian Dijkema Mar 19, 2020 The Stories We Tell

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Memento Mori

WWhat am I looking for? An out of date announcement of my own death? —Stephen Maturin via Patrick O'BrianI see it most clearly the morning after a late night, or at the end of a long and tiresome day. I straighten from the bow I take when I wash my face, I take a...

Brian Dijkema Jun 1, 2017 Rethinking Civil Religion

Headquarters: Work & Economics

Economics is important, but it's not the most important part of life. In fact, you could say it's too important of a second thing to make it a first thing. Doing so would corrupt it. This might seem a counterintuitive move to make for a research program about...

Brian Dijkema Apr 4, 2012

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Surprising Evidences of Unity

Knowing where we overlap, and where we differ, allows all of us to be more effective witnesses in the public square.

Brian Dijkema Jul 27, 2011

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The Enchanted Animal

The story Brooks tells—while filling in the reductionist modern narratives about what we really are—includes some flimsy, charm-like religion inserted as science.

Brian Dijkema Jun 6, 2011

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Beauty and the Best of It

John Stackhouse and Gregory Wolfe contribute, in surprisingly similar ways, to a renaissance of excellent books on how Christian faith relates to broader cultural questions.

Brian Dijkema Oct 22, 2010

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Promise of Rain

There are some weather phenomena that can’t truthfully be described as indifferent.

Brian Dijkema Mar 12, 2010

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I, like a tomato plant

Patience, persistence, forgiveness, reflection, discipline—all can be learned with soil in one’s hands

Brian Dijkema Dec 1, 2006

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Living with Liberalism: six strategies for faithfulness

Liberalism is a powerful cultural force that protects individuals and human rights, but hangs marriages and families out with the rest of the laundry. It banishes historical religious convictions, only to promote its own faith-in-reason structures instead. How does one go about living under the influence of such idolatry?