Lessons from an 'Ethnic' Wedding
/Helen Mo on why hipsters love an ethnic wedding.
Read MoreMy Big Fat Non-Traditional Wedding
/Bhairavi Thanki discusses why she isn't going to have any of her family's Indian traditions in her own wedding, no how, no way.
Read MoreKids and Wine Is Just Fine
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Kids and Wine Is Just Fine: Kelli Korducki was a child drinker (sort of) and people let her get away with it cause her parents were foreign (maybe).
Read MoreJust Say No: Q&A with a Muslim
/“It felt weird to me to be the only sober person in a room full of people who were inebriated.” Bharavi Thanki talks to a young, ambitious Muslim woman about whether her choice not to drink affects her career path.
Read MoreQ & Ass with Rahim Thawer
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Speaking with Denise Balkissoon, sexual health counsellor Rahim Thawer discusses HIV prevention, fetishes, stereotypes and, most importantly, keeping the ass fun.
Would Hamburgers Halal Be As Popular As Burger's Priest?
/Simon Yau wonders whether the Christian-flavoured Burger’s Priest is kinda weird. Would Hamburgers Halal or Buddha Burgers be as popular?
Compelled to "Do Jewish"
/Does circumcision make you Jewish? Lea Zeltserman is a diversity-loving Torontonian married to a non-Jew who found herself planning a bris for her unborn child.
Read MoreNot Quite a Heathen
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Kelli Korducki is a “Cultural Catholic:” she misses the rituals, pomp and circumstance, even if she doesn’t entirely believe in the faith.
Read MoreDo We Need More Holidays?
/Ontario has two statutory holidays with a religious origin, and they’re both Christian. Should we have days off for Chinese New Year or Diwali, too? Renee Sylvestre-Williams tackles this complicated question.
Read MoreTricked Into Catholicism?
/Heather Li wondered why her family was Catholic. The answer was surprising. Was her family tricked into Catholicism?
Read MoreThe Advantages of a Turban: An Interview with Suresh Bhalla
/How do you square being modern and being religious? That’s one of the questions Navneet Alang posed to local Sikh banker and philanthropist Suresh Bhalla.
Read MoreHouse of Lords: Ten Religious Buildings in Toronto
/Temples, synagogues and street corners: Denise Balkissoon takes you on a tour of a few religious buildings in Toronto that she’s visited.
Read MoreContents Under Pressure: A Queer Muslim Unsilenced
/“Being both Muslim and queer always seemed like mutually exclusive identities to me.” Rahim Thawer explores how he came to see queerness and Islam as compatible, at least in himself.
Read More'Cause You Gotta Have (an opinion on) Faith
/Why are we doing a religion issue at all? ” For a lot of people, faith is far less about certain clothing, symbols or rituals and much more about how they see the world.“
Read MoreTake That, Mandy Moore: A Sikh Girl Goes Bang
/Navi Lamba had her first haircut at age 15, only to learn that she didn’t have white girl hair. “I didn’t have the Princess Diaries moment I had hoped for and was left with something a bit shorter and much puffier, with the odd curl protruding from of my head.”
Read MoreJesus Saves
/Black envy, or black in a past life? Lisan Jutras in Jesus Saves: "When I heard “Mary Don’t You Weep,” on Aretha’s gospel album, I’d picture myself running super fast, or maybe even floating, with a pushing feeling inside my chest, and I’d find myself crying."
Read MoreWhat's Beef?
/Visiting India as a 13-year-old was a nightmare realized. Bad things happened: being groped by skeezed-out men in crowded places, disembarking a congested train by jumping as it pulled away from the platform, traveler’s diarrhea, seeing a giant cockroach in a hotel bathroom (my first roach!), getting a bag of chips snatched from my hand by a hissing monkey, screaming at an overly persistent street vendor from a hot, cramped car, blowing smog-blackened snot from my nose in New Delhi. I can go on (but I won’t). My reaction to all of these things was very visceral: Ugh.
Read MorePride and (Gay) Prejudice
/Canice Leung talks about the day her parents came home wearing t-shirts that read "Man + Woman = Marriage.
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For centuries, community-focused care and ancestral healing knowledge have existed as practices of resistance and freedom for folks of colour.