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

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 spawned a coalition of advocacy groups, think tanks and youth lobbies that have changed the national debate. The “sleeping giant” that Capital Xtra! magazine had warned against in 2005 is now up and about, organizing with a vengeance that will not be easily reversed. As Faytene Kryskow, leader of Christian youth lobby called 4MYCanada, told a parliamentary reception, “We are here, and we are here to stay.”

Toronto Star

The book by Marci McDonald will be coming out the same day at the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa.  Some of us can’t wait.

In the brief  Toronto Star excerpt, The National House of Prayer, Joseph Ben-Ami, Dave Quist get mentioned.
Hit the blog search button on this blog if you want to know more about them.

As well it’s an honour to see a regular contributor to religious right alert mentioned in this teaser: Dennis Gruending of Pulpit and Politics.

Numerically, the Canadian religious right may still be a fraction of that in the U.S., but as Ottawa communications consultant Dennis Gruending points out, “Groups that are well organized can punch above their weight — particularly in an era of fractured parliaments and minority governments.” A former New Democratic Party MP, Gruending laments that “there is little in progressive Ottawa to rival the networks that have been created by the religious and political right.”

Moreover, pundits who predicted those networks would vanish in the wake of the same-sex marriage defeat have instead seen them proliferate. Amid the stormy U.S. health-care debate of 2009, most Canadians were stunned to discover that one of their own was the star of a $2 million television campaign warning Americans about the perils of this country’s publicly funded medical system. Shona Holmes, the poster girl for that attack, turned out to be fronting a lawsuit against Ontario’s health ministry spearheaded by a Calgary-based Christian legal advocacy group named the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

You can read about Ms. Holmes and the Canadian Constitution Foundation  have caught the attention of religious right alert also. Feel free to search the site.

Who is blogging

Benediction Blogs On: How Canada’s Christian right was built
No Apologies: Marci McDonald’s conspiracy theory on Canada’s “Christian right”
Terahertz: Three days till Armageddon
Larry Lootsteen’s Blog: The Religious Right – In Canada, In Power
Ezra Levant: Does Joseph Ben-Ami wear a yarmulke because he’s a cardinal?
Dawg’s Blawg: Guy Laliberte for Prime Minister
the woodshed: Chuckles McVety wants to give you a wedgie