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The terror attack on the London Bridge was not just an “incident”

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren June 4, 2017 2 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren It’s happened again—this time on the London Bridge, an English icon. Terrorists smashed a white van into a crowd of people, and then emerged with 12-inch long hunting knives and began to stab people. There were also stabbings near Borough Market, and three suspects are still at large. This is all…

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The CBC’s Neil Macdonald is an ignorant bigot

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren June 1, 2017 13 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren Neil Macdonald, one of those smug, elitist drones bestowed upon us by our government-funded state broadcaster to tell us what’s best for us, has just written a column that should win scores of awards in the categories of cluelessness and snottiness. Macdonald, who happens to be the brother of the far more…

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So it turns out that Niki Ashton DOES know when life begins

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 30, 2017 4 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren NDP Member of Parliament Niki Ashton must have been absolutely outraged when she saw the Toronto Star yesterday. There, right in the first paragraphs, were these lines: Niki Ashton’s drive to win the NDP leadership now has an added tag line: Baby on board. The Manitoba MP announced Monday that she…

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Andrew Scheer’s victory is good news for the pro-life movement

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 28, 2017 4 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren It’s a very good day for social conservatives in Canada. After a decade of being pushed to the fringes, commentators across the board were stunned by their show of strength during today’s leadership race. I was driving and thus forced to listen to CBC Radio One when the first ballot results…

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Pierre Lemieux’s leadership campaign was a huge step forward for so-cons

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 27, 2017 2 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren After more than a decade of being forced to the fringe of the Conservative Party of Canada under the leadership of Stephen Harper, social conservatives are displaying their strength, numbers, and dedication—and nowhere has it been more noticed than the Conservative Leadership Race. Maxime Bernier directly contradicted the Harper line and…

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Toronto Life Magazine takes a close look at Canada’s emerging euthanasia regime

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 26, 2017 Leave a comment

By Jonathon Van Maren In the first in-depth essay article on what killing in Canada is like—“How to End a Life”–Toronto Life Magazine has given us a fascinating and stomach-turning look into the world of medical practitioners trained to save lives but now tasked with ending them. Nicholas Hune-Brown, the author of the essay, clearly…

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“Pull off a leg or two”: David Daleiden’s horrifying new bombshell video

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 26, 2017 2 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren Yesterday, the Center for Medical Progress released another video, a series of clips highlighting conversations with abortionists as they describe their trade. By the end of the day, YouTube had pulled the video down, and the Washington Post reports that a San Francisco judge has ordered David Daleiden and his attorneys,…

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Os Guinness with Jonathon Van Maren on populism, globalization, & the Christian response

Authors, Experts, Journalists, Radio ShowBy Jonathon Van Maren May 25, 2017 Leave a comment

Renowned author and social critic Os Guinness joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss the collapse of the Christian consensus, globalization, populism, and how Christians should respond in the age of Trump.

Why does “transphobia” make the progressive Left angrier than Islamic terrorism does?

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 25, 2017 Leave a comment

By Jonathon Van Maren (A few more thoughts after my column on the Manchester bombing yesterday.) In order to keep track of what people of every political stripe are saying, I follow media sources from across the spectrum—from Salon.com to Breitbart, from Mother Jones to the Drudge Report. And so in the aftermath of the…

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There is no unity after the Manchester bombing

Blog Post, featuredBy Jonathon Van Maren May 24, 2017 2 Comments

By Jonathon Van Maren It’s a cruel irony that each fresh atrocity in Europe seems to pit the West’s decline against the Islamic death cult’s mindboggling sadism. The death metal of ISIS versus the Eagles of Death Metal in the Baclatan Theatre. Machinegun-toting murderers mowing down cartoonists specializing in the sacrilegious and obscene at the…

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I wish mainstream media ‘journalists’ actually knew enough about abortion to ask questions like Jonathon Van Maren.

Ryan Bomberger
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Frank Schaeffer
When Jonathon Van Maren invited me on his show, I figured he was in his 60s. I was shocked during the course of our interview, when he said that he was only 27. I don’t know anyone in their twenties who is that wise! I predict great things from him.

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The Bridgehead is one of the best places to turn for thoughtful cultural engagement from a Christian perspective. It is a treasure trove of in-depth interviews with the people and ideas you might not always know, but which often frame the key social and political issues of our day.

Jonathon Van Maren goes beyond contemporary politics and its talking points: he gives fulsome interviews of experts and commentators that allow them to explain the historical background and context of these debates for his listeners.

If your time is precious to you, but you really need to know more about the issues forming our present culture to know how to respond with integrity – and you do – this is a great place to go.

Dr. Scott Masson
Being a guest on Jonathan’s radio talk show–“The Bridgehead,” Toronto, Canada–was both a pleasure and an enlightenment. His astute historical backdrops, insightful commentary, and thought-provoking questions and inquiry propelled the educational sessions I had with him with great speed, while rewarding the listeners with invaluable information that could positively change one’s life forever. Later accessed via YouTube, I was then afforded the opportunity to witness the stimulating passion and commitment of the interviewer and the interviewed, indeed, a perfect match.

Dr. Clenora Hudson Weems
I was interviewed at some length last year by Jonathon Van Maren and was deeply impressed by two things: One was the extraordinary competence of his questioning. He knew and had obviously thought deeply of all the range of issues and ideas we discussed. The other was the ability of the crew who produced the program. Though they were all people under 30, they exhibited skills well beyond their years. All round, it was a pleasurable experience.

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