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Marxism’s Long Shadow

Although Karl Marx lived in the nineteenth century, it was not until the twentieth century that Marxism reached its full impact. This impact took two main forms. The first was the establishment of communist regimes in Russia, China, and other parts of the world. The second was the influence of Marxist ideas on Western intellectuals. Christians need to be familiar with both of these phenomena, so we’ll look at each in turn. Communist Regimes As noted in my previous article, a revolution in Russia in 1917 established the world’s first communist state—the Soviet Union—on the basis of Marx’s ideas. The...

Kevin Flatt

“Elizabeth the Faithful”—a Small Reflection on our Queen

Michael A. G. Haykin

Having been born in the mid-1950s, Elizabeth II (1926–2022) is the only monarch I have ever had. And so, it is very strange to hear the time-hallowed refrain, “The Queen is dead. Long live the King!” Perusing some of the comments about her going home to her God and her King on Facebook, one stood out to me especially. It was the epithet noted by the Revd. Dr. Lee Gatiss, the Director of the Anglican Church Society: Elizabeth the Faithful. This epithet well captures her praiseworthy devotion to serving her people as their Queen to the very end of her...

Christ and Consciousness

Phil Cotnoir

There is a certain kind of person who asks “Why can I think? Why can I feel?” A kind of person who stares at their hand and ponders how their thoughts can make it move, or wonders whether human-like consciousness will arise from machine AI as computing power continues to grow. We may not bring up such topics in casual conversation, but I think most of us have at one time asked exactly these kinds of questions. One of my keen interests in recent years has been to try and understand the shape of the reaction against philosophical materialism. The basic...

Olaudah Equiano: The Unsung Evangelist

Christian Clement-Schlimm

Olaudah Equiano is a name of lasting significance in secular historical discussions, English literary circles, and among students of evangelical church history. Yet, his legacy is not nearly as widely known to the Church at large, certainly not to the degree of figures such as Jonathan Edwards or John Newton. This is truly lamentable. Stolen as a boy from the Kingdom of Benin, Equiano was taken to the slave markets in Barbados, and eventually bought by a ship’s captain in Virginia. After amazing and terrifying travels throughout the Atlantic world, he ultimately landed in England where he became a leading...

Stones of Remembrance: Ontario’s First African Methodist Chapels 

Christian Clement-Schlimm

In Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth Century Ontario, William Westfall recounts the captivating story of how Ontario was once a bastion of a distinctive and dominant Protestant culture that shaped both the life and landscape of the province. If you are unfamiliar with this history, I highly recommend getting acquainted with it. Christians in Ontario have a remarkable heritage to tap into and learn from, especially as we seek to minister to an increasingly disinterested or even antagonistic world today. Lesser known still, taking place simultaneously with the events chronicled in Westfall’s book and contemporaneous to the culture-shaping...

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