Richelle Wiseman
Richelle Wiseman is a communications consultant in Calgary. She is also a freelance journalist, researcher and writer with news, op-eds and feature articles published in major media outlets including the Calgary Herald, Hamilton Spectator, Troy Media, Alberta Oil Magazine, Saskatchewan Woman, Law Now, Journal of Communications, and others. A skilled storyteller and translator of ideas and concepts into action, Richelle provides her clients with services that include strategy and marketing content for websites, social media, events, earned media and community engagement. She is an avid follower of political and social discourse, particularly as it pertains to religious values and communities.
Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.
Articles by Richelle Wiseman
Convivium Readers Respond: Media Defined Faith
By Peter Menzies, with Naomi Lakritz, Richelle Wiseman
July 14, 2017
Convivium readers and long time contributors respond to Publisher Peter Stockland's compellingly written defence earlier this month of how faith is inextricably tied to his identity and vocation as a journalist.
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Bringing People Home
Richelle Wiseman
August 3, 2016
Richelle Wiseman tells the story of Sam Kolias, Alberta-based businessman with a passion for giving back. Read about Sam's humble beginnings here.
As the Chairman and CEO of Boardwalk Rental Communities, Sam received the prestigious 2016 Distinguished Business Leader Award, which is presented annually by the University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business and the Calgary chamber From that early experience of his grandfather fixing a broken ...
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Terminus: Rising Up to Meet the End of the Road
Richelle Wiseman
November 1, 2012
Our approach to the end of life helps us see it as part of the same gift we received at birth.
He received pain medication and muscle relaxants for "terminal restlessness," and for the next few days, my sister and I watched as the palliative treatment he received eased him peacefully to his death But because there is a lack of information about these issues, and death is the subject everyone ...
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Why Criticism of Religion is So Necessary
Richelle Wiseman
September 26, 2012
To the statement, "Religion is a private matter that should be kept out of public debates about social and political issues," the Catholic and public school students agreed, whereas the independent Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and home school students disagreed Asked to agree or disagree with t...
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The Olympics: A Religious Conundrum
Richelle Wiseman
July 9, 2012
How will the C of E handle the many church groups preparing to protest the London 2012 Olympics? Will civil disobedience, legal public protests, and social justice activism be tolerated at this global event? Other religious groups have joined the Occupy Olympics protest movement to uphold the flag o...
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Beware of the Cross Police . . . or, Let's Make Crosses Mandatory for Christians
Richelle Wiseman
May 14, 2012
Meanwhile, two British women are currently involved in a fight with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over their right to wear crosses in their places of work ...
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From the Personal to the Public to the Political
Richelle Wiseman
March 19, 2012
In the wake of the destruction of his personal dreams for his academically successful daughters, his personal grief and loss is being channelled into the public good It occurred to me that while the acrimony in Canadian and American politics now goes from the political and public to the personal in ...
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A Child by Any Other Name
Richelle Wiseman
February 29, 2012
The hospital seems to indicate that it is a baby if it dies and the mother experiences grief and loss, but a fetus when the mother has made a choice to end the pregnancy There is the term "fetal demise", "missed abortion of 12 weeks or less," "pregnancy remains/tissue", "pregnancy/baby's remains," a...