By Jonathon Van Maren In times of crisis, societies are forced to re-evaluate a great many things. In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, we are already seeing choices being made that are an indication of what we value. Most countries, for example, are accepting the reality of massive economic damage in order to…
By Jonathon Van Maren Filmmaker Ryan Stockert’s new documentary The Missing Project is quite literally a unique one, the first such film that attempts to take a close look at not only the abortion debate in Canada, but at the Canadian pro-life movement, the internal debates and disagreements, and the impact of abortion on many…
By Jonathon Van Maren Inside the jumble of massive columns, slumping stone walls, sculpted doorways and granite slabs engraved with Byzantine crosses, my wife and I found a small sign affixed to a brick wall in the Basilica of St. John. The white paint was peeling away in strips, but the words were still readable.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Last winter, I was sitting in the study of the great Albertan journalist Ted Byfield, who is now approaching ninety years old. We were chatting about the state of the culture, and the proliferation of identity politics. Byfield was a bit more upbeat than I was about where some of this…
By Jonathon Van Maren Tonight is a very bad night for Rachel Notley, for David Eggen, and for the rest of the accidental NDP government that many Albertans just can’t wait to get rid of: Jason Kenney, possibly the most formidable conservative politician in Canada, has won the leadership of the United Conservative Party by…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ever since Margaret Atwood’s novel A Handmaid’s Tale has been turned into a much-acclaimed TV miniseries depicting a dystopia run by “Christians” who obviously know nothing about Christianity (which doesn’t get noticed, because TV critics know nothing about Christianity, either), Canadian literature has suddenly been a far hotter topic than usual.…
By Jonathon Van Maren The release of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation last month marks the arrival of a book hotly debated in Christian circles since long before its publication. Rod Dreher, the author of wonderful books such as The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern…
The following is author and journalist Ted Byfield’s Foreword to Jonathon Van Maren’s recent book, The Culture War. It can be purchased here. The value of this book, for those of us now departing what the old Anglican liturgy calls “this fleeting world,” is hard to overstate. It describes a convulsive revolution that we watched…
A very kind review from writer Lea Singh over at LifeSiteNews.com: November 1, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Reading Culture War (LifeCycle Books, 2016) by Jonathon van Maren is much like that IMAX experience where a helicopter takes you on a racing ride above a quickly changing landscape. It is an epic and fast-moving panoramic sweep of…
Ted Byfield’s career is as varied as it is impressive. He ran The Alberta Report, The BC Report, and The Western Standard, as well as writing books such as The Book of Ted: Epistles of an Unrepentant Redneck and editing The Christian History Project. He’s often credited with pioneering the Reform Party, and coined the…