in World News The forgotten history of the Christians who fought against Canada’s progressive turn
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On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon speaks with Michael Wagner about his book ‘Canada: The Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian Christian Right,’ whose 18th anniversary edition is being released next year.
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon speaks with author Michael Wagner about his book Canada: The Past, Present, and Future of the Canadian Christian Right, whose 18th anniversary edition, to which Jonathon wrote the forward, is being released next year.
Jonathon began the episode by asking Wagner why he decided to write the book in the first place. Wagner said he wanted to respond to the established narrative of history that Canada has been on a progressive, post-Christian path from its inception – which ignores the fact that there was significant backlash from Canadian Christians to its progressive trajectory.
Wagner also explained that when he was looking for topics to write about while working for Reform Perspective Magazine, he noticed there was no published book that provided a historical defense of the Canadian Christians.
“Canada was generally speaking founded on the Christian worldview and a different worldview, what you can call secularism, or progressivism, or whatever, came in to replace the Christian view. And there are thoughtful people on both sides, although I think the progressive side is wrong, but there were thoughtful people on the Christian side who defended it thoughtfully, and they deserve to have their view shown,” he said.