Doug Sikkema

Associate Editor, Comment

 

Doug Sikkema is a part-time associate editor of Comment in addition to being an assistant professor of Core Humanities and English at Redeemer University. He holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo in English literature, with a research focus on contemporary American fiction, theology, and ecology. Doug is a founding member and board chair for Oak Hill Academy, a classical Christian school that serves the greater Hamilton area. He and his wife Vanessa, their four children, two dogs, and cat all live very happily in the "surrounding area" of Binbrook, Ontario.

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End-of-Life Care: Toward a New Beginning in Ontario
Apr 23, 2018
Research Report
What Is Marilynne Robinson Hawking?
Mar 22, 2018
Comment Article
A University for the Sake of the World
Mar 1, 2018
Comment Article
What the University Can (and Cannot) Do
Feb 1, 2018
Comment Article
Treating College Like Costco
Dec 11, 2017
Convivium Article
Headquarters: Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing
Dec 1, 2017
Comment Article
The Spirit of Prize Winning Poets
Nov 6, 2017
Convivium Article
And The Mitchell Prize Winners Are….
Oct 27, 2017
Convivium Article
Countdown to the Mitchell Literary Prize
Sep 25, 2017
Convivium Article
This Manner of Love
Jun 1, 2017
Convivium Article
Telling Our Better Stories
Mar 20, 2017
Convivium Article
Finding God at the AGO
Dec 2, 2016
Convivium Article
Headquarters: Cardus Education Survey
Dec 1, 2016
Comment Article
The Commons: Designed Isolation
Dec 1, 2016
Comment Article
Cardus Education Survey 2016: Educating To Love Your Neighbour
Oct 11, 2016
Research Report
The New Scientism: Still Fighting the Phantom War
May 5, 2016
Convivium Article
A Toolbox for Changing the World
Apr 7, 2016
Comment Article
The New Scientism
Dec 1, 2015
Convivium Article
Commons & Commonwealth
Aug 1, 2015
Convivium Article
Is Ecology Haunted? An Ecocritic Reads "Laudato Si`"
Jul 23, 2015
Comment Article
Haunted by nature in our secular age
Jun 5, 2015
Convivium Article
Taking Care of Our Own
May 15, 2015
Convivium Article
The Muse of Appreciation
Feb 5, 2015
Convivium Article
In Memory of Jack
Jan 23, 2015
Convivium Article
2014 in Review: A Call for Civic Courage
Dec 31, 2014
Convivium Article
Scott Masson: The Moral Enterprise of Education
Dec 17, 2014
Cardus Audio
Building for the World's Last Night
Dec 11, 2014
Convivium Article
Talking About God in Public
Dec 4, 2014
Comment Article
Stealing Past the Dragons
Dec 1, 2014
Convivium Article
Medics in No-Man’s Land
Nov 14, 2014
Convivium Article
The Imagination: Free, but Everywhere in Chains
Oct 30, 2014
Convivium Article
No Shame in Dirty Hands
Oct 2, 2014
Convivium Article
Why Aren't Conservatives Funny?
Sep 18, 2014
Convivium Article
The Conversation Precedes Us
Sep 5, 2014
Convivium Article
The Haunting Presence of Time in Linklater’s Boyhood
Aug 26, 2014
Convivium Article
Inside the Islamic State
Aug 14, 2014
Convivium Article
What Anonymity Does to Communities
Aug 8, 2014
Convivium Article
Longing for our Lost Home
Aug 1, 2014
Convivium Article
Sages and Saints
Jul 25, 2014
Convivium Article
The Problem With Buzzwords
Jul 21, 2014
Convivium Article
Marching to the Beat of the National Narrative
Jul 4, 2014
Convivium Article
On Camping and Pipelines, Wilderness and Culture
Jun 20, 2014
Convivium Article
Becoming Like Gods
Jun 16, 2014
Convivium Article
Do We Need Stories?
Jun 6, 2014
Convivium Article
What Are People For?
May 30, 2014
Convivium Article
Academic Freedom
May 20, 2014
Convivium Article
Still and Still Moving
May 12, 2014
Convivium Article
3 Things to Consider About the Don Sterling Debacle
May 2, 2014
Convivium Article
Ellen Davis and Norman Wirzba: Participating in Creation
Apr 29, 2014
Cardus Audio
Getting Back to Place
Apr 24, 2014
Comment Article
March Madness: Rooting for the Underdog
Apr 4, 2014
Convivium Article
Enchantment and God's Green World
Apr 1, 2014
Convivium Article
We Work in Beauty
Mar 28, 2014
Convivium Article
World Down Syndrome Day: Who Are the Least of These?
Mar 21, 2014
Convivium Article
Ukraine: Does it Matter Where you Stand?
Mar 7, 2014
Convivium Article
Waking to the Wonder
Feb 28, 2014
Convivium Article
Yada Yada Yada: What Was That?
Feb 21, 2014
Convivium Article
Black History Month: Silence and Storytelling
Feb 14, 2014
Convivium Article
Buffered from the Storm
Feb 6, 2014
Convivium Article
In Defense of Suburbia
Jan 31, 2014
Convivium Article
Love in the Digital Age
Jan 17, 2014
Convivium Article
Walking Away From Omelas
Jan 10, 2014
Convivium Article
Give Me All The Flickering Lights
Dec 23, 2013
Convivium Article
Patronage: Of Visions and Revisions
Dec 13, 2013
Convivium Article
Let Me Fall
Nov 22, 2013
Convivium Article
The Democracy of the Dead
Nov 13, 2013
Convivium Article
Standing by Words at Home and Abroad
Nov 7, 2013
Convivium Article
Transcendent Humans
Nov 1, 2013
Convivium Article
No School Is an Island
Oct 24, 2013
Convivium Article
Wendell Berry: A New Language of Place
Oct 16, 2013
Convivium Article
Wendell Berry: Seeing the Earth as Sacrament
Oct 11, 2013
Convivium Article
A Culture Breaking Bad?
Oct 4, 2013
Convivium Article
Persecution and the Stories We Tell
Sep 27, 2013
Convivium Article
Dispensing in "Unsuperfluous Even Proportion"
Sep 20, 2013
Convivium Article
Be Not Afraid: Prophecy in War-Time
Sep 13, 2013
Convivium Article
Tread Lightly and Carry a Big Dream
Aug 27, 2013
Convivium Article

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