Under Siege

Writing from the perspective of a student of life, history, law,

politics, and theology, Don Hutchinson draws on all of these areas in

Under Siege to offer perceptive insight into the Christian

Church of today’s Canada. The reader will receive the benefit of his

thirty years of church leadership, Christian witness, constitutional

law, and public policy experience to gain a practical understanding

of how we, the Church, may cast the deciding votes on the future of

Christianity in our constitutionally guaranteed “free and democratic

society.”

How did we get here? What happened to “Christian” Canada? Do we

not have Charter rights like everyone else? What does the

Bible say?

Many Christians sense that an advancing secularism is trying to

force upon Canadians a culture in which faith is meant to be private.

Hutchinson presents historic, legal, and theological grounds for us

not to hide our faith in stained-glass closets, but instead to enter

Canada’s contested public space with confidence. Together as

individual Christians, congregations, denominations, and para-

congregational ministries, we are the Church in Canada. And together

we have the capacity to impact the nation for God’s good, the good of

our neighbours, and the good of ourselves. Will we?