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Andrew P.W. Bennett

Program Director, Faith Communities

The Rev. Dr. Andrew P.W. Bennett is Program Director, Faith Communities at Cardus. He is an ordained deacon in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Eparchy (Diocese) of Toronto and Eastern Canada.

A champion of religious freedom domestically and internationally, Fr. Deacon Andrew served as Canada's first Ambassador for Religious Freedom and led Global Affairs Canada's Office of Religious Freedom from 2013 to 2016. He simultaneously served as Canada's Head of Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance -a 31-country body which leads international efforts in Holocaust education, research, and remembrance.

As Cardus Program Director for Faith Communities, Fr. Deacon Andrew works to promote religious freedom, freedom of conscience, and the importance of public faith to our common life. He also leads Cardus's engagement with faith communities across Canada and Cardus's program of public theology. Fr. Deacon Andrew is a Senior Fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) in Washington, DC - a leading independent think-tank committed to achieving broad acceptance of religious liberty as a fundamental human right for everyone, everywhere.

Fr. Deacon Andrew holds a Ph.D. in Politics (2002) from the University of Edinburgh as well as degrees in history from McGill and Dalhousie universities. When not praying, studying, or advocating, Fr. Deacon Andrew can be found with his fly rod in a stream, listening to bluegrass or Beethoven, or reading the Church Fathers.

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Writings

Indigenous Voices of Faith: Marilyn Crowchild

Research Report

Memo: Redefining Chaplaincy

Policy Brief: Keeping Ontario’s Places of Worship Open During Emergencies

Needs Improvement: How Public Schools Teach about Religion

Research Report

True Progress Moves Us To God

Convivium Article

The Secular Servants of Abstraction

Convivium Article

The Christian’s Progress

Convivium Article

The Hard Truth About Reconciliation

Convivium Article

A Rabbi for the Long Way Home

Convivium Article

London Murders Wound Us All

Convivium Article

Conversion Therapy Bill Off Target

Convivium Article

Public Worship Leads to Public Action

Research Article

Ve'ahavta - A Case Study on Jewish Humanitarian Response to Poverty

Research Report

The Welcome Home, Winnipeg

Research Report

Pastoral Home Care of the Archdiocese of Montreal / SASMAD

Research Report

Ismaili CIVIC: Case Studies in Faith-Based Social Service

Research Report

POST SCRIPT: The Delusions of Isolation

Comment Article

Le Québec théâtre d’un conflit de symboles

Convivium Article

Les défis à venir concernant l’interdiction par le Québec des symboles religieux

Convivium Article

Sounding Out Quebec’s Clash of Symbols

Convivium Article

Challenges Ahead for Quebec's Ban on Religious Symbols

Convivium Article

Dignity That Illuminates Community

Convivium Research & Analysis

Corona of Thorns

Convivium Article

Speaking the Truth in Love

Voices in the Crowd

Putting the Human Back in Dignity

Convivium Article

Who Are You? Reaffirming Human Dignity

Research Report

The Truth No State Can Abolish

Voices in the Crowd

Faith For Our Future

Convivium Article

Encountering Online Hatred

Convivium Article

In Veritate Vincit

Convivium Article

Keeping Interfaith Conversation Honest

Convivium Article

Welcome to Year Zero

Convivium Article

Canada Missing in Action on Religious Freedom

Convivium Article

Headquarters: CRFI

Comment Article

Religion, Freedom, Citizenship

Convivium Article

The Golden Thread of Faith

Calling For True Pluralism

Convivium Article

Will the State Hug Me When I Die?

Convivium Article

Living A Different Answer

Convivium Article

Lessons in Political Cooperation

Convivium Article

Enriched By Difference

Convivium Article

Privileged Conversation

Convivium Article

Cardus What Makes A Good City Forum

Research Article

Believing in Cities

Convivium Article

L'Etat, C'Est Toi

Comment Article

Convivium Article

Behind the Tapestry: Continuing the Conversation with Andrew Bennett

Comment Article

To Differ Without Deferring

Convivium Article

Cardus Law: You, Me, Community

Convivium Article

Murders and Meaning

Convivium Article

Religious Freedom as a Fundamental Freedom

Research Report

Defending a Foundational Freedom

Convivium Article

The Muscular Solidarity of Truth

Convivium Article

Acts of Faith in Canada

Convivium Article

Acquiring a Faith Literacy

Convivium Article

"My Faith is Me"

Convivium Article

The Church Fathers and a Christian's Response

Comment Article

Press Releases

Hate Crimes a Growing Problem for Canada's Religious Communities

Canadians Need a Fuller Picture of Indigenous Faith and Religion

Cultivating the Christmas Spirit Takes More Than Good Feelings

STATEMENT regarding Census Data on Religious Diversity

Public Schools Need to Improve Teaching About Religion

Statement on Ontario Court of Appeal ruling on conscience rights

Fight Hatred Through Open Dialogue, Says Former Religious Freedom Ambassador

A New Advocate for Religious Freedom in Canada

Cardus Condemns Recent Expressions of Hate

Media Coverage

King Charles Won't Be Known as 'Defender of the Faith' — Does it Matter?

Two Topics We’re Not Supposed to Talk About: Religion and Politics

Distressing Rise of Hate on Agenda for Activist’s Lecture

Hate Crimes a Growing Problem for Canada's Religious Communities

Faith that Isn’t Lived — and Isn’t Lived Publicly — Isn’t Faith at All

Chrétienté du Moyen-Orient: Là Où Noël N’Est Pas Une Période Merveilleuse

For Mideast Christians, This Is Not 'The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'

Canada’s Euthanasia Debate Is About the Very Nature of the Person

Religious Bigotry Won’t Solve the Canadian Military’s Discrimination Problem

3 Questions on Ukraine: Eric Patterson and Andrew Bennett

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