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Timothy Bloedow’s Christian Government website becomes Christian Governance
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) [...]
Demographic winter and the religious right
Dennis Gruending 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Recently I received an email message urging me to read and then pass it along if I want to save Western civilization. The subject line said: Joys of A Muslim Woman: A MUST READ. Actually, it was not about joy at all but was an alarmist [...]
Jason Kenney and Absolute Truths
“Jesus talked about faith as the leaven that raises up the whole loaf; the light from the mountain that illuminates the valley below … a treasure that one discovers through constant searching; a gift from a God who invites all especially the poor and sinners to a banquet of rich foods and fine wines. This [...]
Tom Warner Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights
Marci McDonald is not the only journalist who has noticed and written about the Canadian religious right this year. Author Tom Warner who is published by Between the Lines has come out with Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Ages of Rights . Losing Control takes a hard, critical look at Canada’s social conservative (religiousright) movement [...]
It’s all Marci McDonald’s fault
Catholic and protestant reaction to political noise. The Catholic Register has a piece about Msgr. Fred Dolan, head of Opes Dei Canada. He is shocked that a couple of MP Opes Dei members were ‘outed’. Huh? He says he went to Ottawa as usual to ” to feed the spiritual needs of anyone who wanted [...]
David Sweet, Spiritual Capital and Reconstructionism
When Darrel Reid was defeated as a Conservative candidate in 2006, he became “Vice President of Project Development for the Work Research Foundation, an organization with the stated mission to “influence people to a Christian view of work and public life.””(1) I must admit that I’d never heard of the ‘Work Research Foundation’ and wasn’t [...]
The Armageddon Factor – it’s a best seller
Strengths and weaknesses Many of the groups and individuals that McDonald writes about are what she describes as “Christian nationalists”. They are people who want their country governed by Biblical principles, as they define them, and there is little room for diversity, tolerance, secularism or faiths other than their own fevered brand of Christianity. McDonald’s [...]
Dangerous Liasons: Christian Legal Fellowship and the Alliance Defense Fund
In 2004, a twelve-year-old Ohio boy, James Nixon, won the right to wear a T-shirt to school, that read: Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, abortion is murder “, after his parents sued the school, who asked him not to. (1) His case was handled by the Alliance Defense Fund, who challenged the [...]
The book that isn’t out yet – Karen Selick – Canadian Constitution Foundation
A stir over a labeling error in a book excerpt in the Toronto Star this weekend regarding the Canadian Constitution Foundation spilled over to a politically conservative site called No Apologies. No Apologies found the error in The Toronto Star excerpt May 8, 2010 Click here to read what appears to be a lengthy excerpt from Marci [...]
From The Armageddon Factor The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
In this country, where the CRTC has kept the reins on religious broadcasting and Catholics make up a larger proportion of the faith community, the emergent Christian right may look and sound different than its American counterpart, but in the five years since the prospect of same-sex marriage propelled evangelicals into political action, it has [...]
