Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer, blogger, and a former Member of Parliament.
Recent Posts
- Pulpit and Politics on CBC Radio - I was interviewed about my book Pulpit and Politics by two CBC Radio hosts in early January 2012. Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition talked with former MP Bill Blaikie and me on New Year’s Day. Then on January 7, Wojtek Gwiazda, host of the Radio Canada International’s Masala Canada, interviewed me on a... Read More
- CPT and Palestinian “freedom riders” - Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) have been present since the 1980s in some of the world’s most troubled locations, including Iraq, Colombia, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as on a dozen first Nations in Canada and the United States. Members of CPT teams either stand between opposing sides in conflict or accompany the weak in... Read More
Recent Comments
- { Hi Ted: It is indeed a bitter irony that, as you say, "naive Christian groups ... go to Israel and fall in love with stones... } – Friday, January 20, 2012
- { Churches and other religious places should be utilised as platform to create awareness among public about alarming issues like global warming and environment degradation. If... } – Wednesday, January 18, 2012
- { Dennis, I heard a bit of that interview on New Year's Day and liked what I heard. This article is so relevant; thanks much for... } – Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- { The actions of these Palestinian Freedom Riders are as relevant in this first quarter of the twenty-first century as were those of the American Freedom... } – Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- { Thanks, Dennis for flagging the important work of CPT.They have been outstanding in their humble witness of accompaniment. Would that PM Harper might walk a... } – Tuesday, January 10, 2012 »»
Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life
A provocative expose of the competition between religious progressives and conservatives for power and influence in Canadian politics. Gruending follows this contest between from Parliament Hill to the church basements, synagogues, temples and universities of the nation and abroad.
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Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based writer, blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and television journalist and radio host and has written six well-received books.
His anthology Great Canadian Speeches was a best seller and The Ottawa Citizen described it as a history of Canada as seen from the podium. He has also written biographies of Emmett Hall, whose Royal Commission recommended medicare for Canada, and of former Saskatchewan premier Allan Blakeney.
- Pulpit and Politics on CBC Radio - I was interviewed about my book Pulpit and Politics by two CBC Radio hosts in early January 2012. Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition talked with former MP Bill Blaikie and me on New Year’s Day. Then on January 7, Wojtek Gwiazda, host of the Radio Canada International’s Masala Canada, interviewed me on a... Read More
- Gruending book launches in Saskatchewan - I had two recent launches in Saskatchewan for my book Pulpit and Politics. One of the events was at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, where I was a boarding school student for three years in high school and first year university in the 1960s. My friend Father Andrew Britz interviewed me about the book prior to a time of questions... Read More