David T. Koyzis

Two months ago I wrote of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ efforts to “investigate” the supposed violation of academic freedom at overtly christian universities. Shortly thereafter CAUT approached my own employer, Redeemer University College, for the same reason. . . . . Continue Reading »

The following is today’s instalment of my biweekly column, Deliberation, for Capital Commentary, published by the Center for Public Justice:More than half a century ago the great American journalist Walter Lippmann, in grappling with the dilemmas of democracy, urged the recovery of a public . . . . Continue Reading »

The Rev. Tullian Tchividjian effectively skewers the popular “left behind” theology in this article in The Worldview Church: Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different.Matthew 24:37-41 is a key passage some Christians use to justify an escapist theology, . . . . Continue Reading »

Future translators of the New Testament might wish to consult this remote community in the Pontic region of Asia Minor:Incidentally, ???????? means Roman, which harks back to the time when Orthodox Christians living in the Eastern Roman Empire called themselves ???????, or Romans, a designation used . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not a fan of most politically-oriented sermons, especially when they undertake to pronounce on the specifics of public policy. However, a week ago our pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. J. Clyde Ervine, gave us all an excellent example of the right way to preach a political sermon.  The title was . . . . Continue Reading »

I am part of what may have been the last generation of English-speaking Christians to grow up with the King James Version of the Bible. This was the Bible we read in church and it shaped the liturgical patterns of our worship. We children memorized verses from it in sunday school, thereby giving it . . . . Continue Reading »

With attacks on middle eastern and south Asian Christians apparently increasing in recent weeks, it is encouraging to read news like this: Egypt Muslims to act as “human shields” at Coptic Christmas Eve mass.“Although 2011 started tragically, I feel it will be a year of eagerly . . . . Continue Reading »

Until virtually the dawn of the modern age the historic heartland of Christianity — possibly containing most of the world’s Christians at the time — included the lands of north Africa and what we now know as the Middle East. Yet over successive centuries the Christians there have . . . . Continue Reading »

For Christmas this year my beloved wife gave me an antiquarian copy of the Lobwasser Psalter, a sturdy little volume that has weathered the centuries remarkably well. The Lobwasser Psalter was a German-language translation of the Genevan Psalms set to verse in 1573 by Ambrosius Lobwasser . . . . Continue Reading »

The best-known version of this ancient Christmas matins hymn may be that of Tomas Luis de Victoria, but American composer Morten Johannes Lauridsen’s lovely setting movingly conveys the spirit of the text:O great mystery,and wonderful sacrament,that animals should see the new-born Lord,lying . . . . Continue Reading »