This is the seventh and last in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders. One of the issues that emerged is whether it is even possible to talk about the Canadian church as a whole. Many of those surveyed observed that some churches are doing well and others are not, and there is no clear pattern for this. Nevertheless, those surveyed were able to make some general statements about the Canadian church. Subjects covered include: Stability • Innovation • Witness • Prayer • Holistic • Numerical Decline • Urban Weakness • Disunity • Leadership • Consumerism • A pleasant mediocrity
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The State of the Canadian Church — Part VI: Those pesky moral, social issues
This is the sixth in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders. cc.com conducted a number of phone interviews, consulted a number of published studies, and did an email survey of a variety of church leaders from across Canada. One of the topics we covered in our survey was social/moral issues.
The State of the Canadian Church — Part V: The Growth of Evangelicalism
This is the fifth in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders. Earlier articles in this series pointed out three main streams in the Canadian church: Roman Catholics are holding their own, in numbers but not in attendance. Mainline Protestant denominations are shrinking significantly. Evangelicals are growing.
The State of the Canadian Church — Part IV: The impact of immigration on the church
This is the fourth in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders looks at the impact of immigration on the State of the Canadian Church
The State of the Canadian Church — Part III: Are Christians in danger of becoming a persecuted minority?
This is the third in a series of articles on the Canadian church, drawing on the expertise of a variety of researchers and church leaders. The public square has become a hostile arena for social-conservative Christians because the public square has been co-opted by a militant SecularismSecularism seeks to eliminate our culture’s acknowledgement of the […]
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Blessings seeks financial restructuring Blessings Christian Marketplace — a chain of 23 bookstores across Canada, with headquarters in Chilliwack, BC — has filed for creditor protection but has not gone bankrupt, according to co-owner Mark Hutchinson. “Blessings is not bankrupt and is not in receivership. The Blessings management team is in full control of the […]
News Roundup
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about Christmas: Jewish family pulls boy from schoolA Shawnigan Lake mother has pulled her five-year-old boy from his kindergarten class at Ecole Mill Bay because she says Christmas has gone beyond the annual concert […]
Quebec Protestants welcome “secular” society
Quebec Protestants are welcoming the open secularism that has been proposed by the Quebec government, and they are even welcoming a new inter-religious school curriculum that has been opposed by Roman Catholics. In a brief presented to the Taylor-Bouchard commission on the “reasonable accommodation” of minorities November 14, the Protestant Partnership in Education noted that Protestants are the largest […]
The State of the Canadian Church – Part II: Shifting Traditions
One of the problems with the census data is that it is still using categories from a century ago, which do not reflect current categories. In particular, the older categories do not reflect the current divide between evangelical and mainline Protestant churches. Over the past quarter-century, there has been a massive shift within ‘Protestantism.’
News round-up
Note: Registration or subscription to the host news sites may be required to read some of the stories linked here. Stories about The Golden Compass: Kidman the icy queen of evil ‘She loves herself and hates herself at the same time,’ she says of the diabolical Mrs. Coulter CanWest News Service, December 7 Wrong direction This […]