David T. Koyzis

What if every new church building were to forgo the ubiquitous parking lot in the interest of restoring a normative ecclesiology? Continue Reading »

If something like ISIS/ISIL were to overrun much of North America, would we be willing to give up our lives for the sake of a gospel so fixated on the self and its needs? Continue Reading »

Sexual freedom will brook no dissent, and that alone should tell us that we have crossed into the dangerous territory of idolatry. Continue Reading »

In 1969, Canada’s Criminal Law Amendment Act, known as Omnibus Bill C-150, was granted Royal Assent. Introduced two years earlier by Pierre Trudeau while he was still federal Justice Minister, the bill had sparked heated debate in the House of Commons and the popular press, because it proposed, among other things, to decriminalize homosexual acts, permit abortion and contraception, and allow government-regulated gambling. In the midst of shepherding this bill through the parliamentary process, Trudeau famously asserted that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation” and that “what’s done in private between adults doesn’t concern the Criminal Code.” Continue Reading »

What happens when a people loses faith in its gods? Continue Reading »

The autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades. Continue Reading »

A properly functioning moral conscience is formed by a variety of authoritative influences, including parental upbringing, teachers, churches, workplaces, and peers. Continue Reading »

How would the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have responded to the crisis in Crimea? Continue Reading »

An upcoming Scottish referendum forces us to think beyond the United Kingdom and into Canada, Crimea, and elsewhere. Continue Reading »

If love is not reducible to mere emotion, there is nevertheless a substantial emotional component to it. Continue Reading »