The Other Family Separation at the Border: Canadian and US Evangelicals

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🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It’s been an interesting year for Canadian evangelicals. This winter, the Canadian government announced that organizations applying for summer youth employment grants had to first affirm their support for abortion. Several weeks ago, in a 7-2 vote, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled against what might have been the country’s first and only Christian law school. Trinity Western University had been in court for years after several provincial law societies declined to accredit the school because of its student covenant, which prohibits sex outside of traditional marriage. And on top of that, their Christian cousins to the south’s perceived support of Donald Trump has made many weary to claim this religious identity as their own. “I would say that there’s a hesitation to even use the word evangelical,” said Karen Stiller, a senior editor with Faith Today magazine, which serves Canada's estimated four million evangelicals. “There’s a sense that we probably believe all the Christian doctrinal positions that define us as evangelicals, but we don’t like to be slotted as Americans, to be honest.” Stiller joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli on Quick to Listen to discuss Canadian evangelicals’ relationship to politics, the ups and downs of their relationship with the American church, and how God is working in the Canadian church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
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0:27.9	Music Michael Del Rosario at Apologeticsguy.com. You're listening to Quick to Listen. Each week we go beyond hashtags and hot takes, discuss a major cultural event.
0:34.3	I'm Morgan Lee, an associate digital media producer here at Christianity today, and I'm here
0:38.3	with Mark Alley, our editor-in-chief. Hey. Great to have you here. Good to be here. Who is joining us today?
0:43.5	Joining us today is Karen Stiller. She's senior editor with Faith Today magazine. It's the leading
0:48.7	national magazine for Canada's estimated 4 million evangelical Christians. It connects, informs, and profiles evangelicals,
0:55.9	equipping them with expert research and insight into Canadian culture, Christian life, and ministry.
1:01.5	And we could almost substitute Christianity today with that description except for the Canadian part.
1:06.4	So it's a very similar mission as ours. She's also a partner with Canadian Christian New Service and serves on the advisory board of the Cardas Religious Freedom Institute.
1:16.6	Hey, Karen. Hey, thanks for having me. Yeah, I would say the magazine focus does sound similar. No.
1:25.2	Sometimes when I'm describing faith today to people who have not heard of it before, I have been
1:31.1	known to say, it's like the Canadian Christianity today. I'll tell you what I'm going to do in
1:37.9	return when they don't understand what Christianity today is. I'll say it's very much like faith today in
1:43.5	Canada. Oh, that's beautiful much like faith today in Canada.
1:45.7	Oh, that's beautiful.
1:46.4	Thank you.
1:47.3	Very cool.
1:50.9	Well, Karen, we are excited that you are joining us today.
1:56.9	Also, you said that you have been a listener of the show, which is a treat when people cross that divide.
1:59.4	And she was still willing to be on it.
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