Vocation
A vocation is more than a job. What is your calling?
Are you a young Christian professional between the ages of 25 – 34?
Seeking answers to questions of faith, vocation, leadership, and public life?
You’re in the right place.
Would you leap at the opportunity to be mentored, connect with fellow emerging leaders, and engage questions that will guide the rest of your career?
Cardus NextGEN Fellows Program is offering a year-long fellowship that seeks to equip emerging leaders with the resources they need to excel in their own spheres of influence.
A vocation is more than a job. What is your calling?
An open and ordered world needs leaders.Where are you called to serve and lead?
Understanding the world as God’s creation changes everything. What is your part in God’s plan for a more flourishing world?
Faith, leadership, and vocation are building blocks of a more just and equitable society for all. Where are you called to engage?
The Cardus NextGEN Fellows Program provides a supportive learning community for young leaders to develop their spiritual and intellectual growth.
Every group of Fellows takes part in a one-week seminar in Ottawa which focuses on the Christian perspective on social and political matters, and they also attend four weekends in various locations across Canada, in addition to regular Zoom Connects with guest speakers to chat about vocation, leadership, faith, public life, and public policy.
Each year, twelve young, Canadian, Christian leaders are selected to join the NextGEN Fellows Program. NextGen is a year-long, leadership development opportunity for those aged 25 – 34 created and run by think tank Cardus. The NextGEN fellows will explore the relevance and resources of the Christian faith for their vocations and for public life today.
The Fellowship year runs from May to March. The year includes four weekend-long events, one week-long seminar in Ottawa, and monthly Zoom Connects.
Fellows also arrange to meet once a month with their mentors via phone, Zoom, or in person.
Applications are being received now for the 2025 – 26 class with a deadline of April 30, 2025. The NextGEN Fellowship is open to Canadian residents, ages 25 – 34 (as of April 30, 2025), who can commit to the year-long participation requirements of the Fellowship program.
Applicants will need to be able to commit to the following schedule in addition to virtual gatherings. Complete schedule →
Each year, NextGEN fellows attend talks and participate in exclusive sessions with a variety of leading Christian academics and authors.
Host of the Praxis podcast, The Redemptive Edge, and author of Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
Author, A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World
Associate Professor and Division Chair, Palliative Medicine, Queen’s University School of Medicine
Director, Cardus Religious Freedom Institute
Director of the Kirby Lang Center for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK
Author, Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity (2021)
Director, Center for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College
Author, Fighting Over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada
Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
Director, Institute for Education Policy, John Hopkins University
Author, Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture, and Computer Technology
Associate Professor, Politics and International Studies, Redeemer University
Co-Director, Diocesan Centre for Marriage, Life and the Family (Archdiocese of Montréal)
Director, Theos (UK)
Program Director, Cardus Family
Senior Fellow, Cardus Family
Co-editor (with Robert Joustra) of Calvinism for a Secular Age: A Twenty-First Century Reading of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures (2021)
Author, Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear; Scholar-in-Residence, Max De Pree Center for Christian Leadership
Partner, The Acacia Group, Constitutional and Religious Freedom Litigation
(† May 2024)
Executive Vice President, Cardus
President — Canada, Cardus
Founder, Redeemer Center for Faith and Work
Chief Executive Officer, Cardus