Timothy Bloedow, legislative assistant to Reform-Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott, former director of Equipping Evangelicals for the Public Square and former Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidate is ramping up his political activism “for promoting explicitly Christian culture and governance.”
In May Bleodow changed his website Christian Government to Christian Governance:
ChristianGovernance is pursuing a two-fold purpose: 1) interfacing with, and contributing to, Canada’s public policy process with initial focus on Ontario and federal governance, and 2) educating, mentoring and motivating Christian youth and adults to be engaged Christianly in Canada’s public life, applying their gifts, harnessing their strengths, and using their spheres of influence to reclaim Canada for Christ.
ChristianGovernance will monitor federal and Ontario public policy activity, including Parliamentary and Legislative Committee schedules in order to find opportunities to contribute policy papers and witness testimony on important legislation and regulations. We will distribute our policy documents to political science professors across the country. We will educate our politicians on the Christian history and philosophy that produced Canada. We will urge our civil magistrates to acknowledge the sovereignty of God and the Lordship of Christ to this nation. Is this a utopian dream? The Throne Speech prepared by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and read by the Governor-General on March 3, 2010 closed as follows: “As you set about this vital work, I pray that Divine Providence guide you in your deliberations.” Still carved into the ornate woodwork over the doorways in the Shadow Cabinet room are the words, “Fear God” and “Honour the King” from I Peter 2:17. The words are still there despite the secularist spirit that dominates Canada’s public square, now we just need men’s hearts to conform to them.
ChristianGovernance will educate people about what a Christian social order looks like, and how we might achieve one in Canada. Much of this will take place through a dynamic website with written, audio and video content, through the continued publishing of books, curriculum, and timely articles providing important news and analysis, and through conferences and a rigorous speaking schedule wherever we have opportunity to share our message. We will work hard to gain the attention of the mainstream media and be part of important stories about Canadian culture and public policy. We will do this by addressing current events in a timely fashion with a genuine Biblical perspective that will likely otherwise be missing from public debates.
Who is blogging?
unrepentant old hippie Christian Government: now with 44% less theocracy
Pushed to the left and loving it My Apologies to Timothy Bloedow, But I do not Hate Christians
Note that the inimitable Mr. Bloedow also operates and contributes to another, marginally more secular but equally radical site at http://www.noapologies.ca.
He does. He became director of Equipping Christians for the Public Square after Tristan Emmanual resigned in 2008. Bloedow resigned as director May 31/10 and appears to be doing his own thing now.
I find the closing statement by Harper in the Throne Speech patronising in the extreme.
He voices it as though he is some great and exalted leader speaking to his minions or an Archbishop speaking to his flock.
“As you set about this vital work, I pray that Divine Providence guide you in your deliberations.” . . . .
He sets himself above others despite it being called the Commons. Talk about a tainted attitude; certainly not Christian.
Torontonian – Harper is not only patronizing but believes himself to be above us all. With the help of his trusty minions Maurice Vellacott, Bloedow, & his many others evangelical Conservative acolytes, his plan appears to be to create a Christian Governance State (all privatized of course), with himself playing God, as he sees Him. And He isn’t the God of the New Testament, that’s for sure!