Under Siege: Religious Freedom and the Church in Canada at 150 (1867-2017)

Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law,politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas inUnder Siege to offer perceptive insight into the ChristianChurch of today's Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of histhirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutionallaw, and public policy experience to gain a practical understandingof how we, the Church, may cast the deciding votes on the future ofChristianity in our constitutionally guaranteed "free and democraticsociety."How did we get here? What happened to "Christian" Canada? Do wenot have Charter rights like everyone else? What does theBible say?Many Christians sense that an advancing secularism is trying toforce upon Canadians a culture in which faith is meant to be private.Hutchinson presents historic, legal, and theological grounds for usnot to hide our faith in stained-glass closets, but instead to enterCanada's contested public space with confidence. Together asindividual Christians, congregations, denominations, and para-congregational ministries, we are the Church in Canada. And togetherwe have the capacity to impact the nation for God's good, the good ofour neighbours, and the good of ourselves. Will we?