18 Year Anniversary Edition
From the Foreword by Jonathon Van Maren:
"Michael Wagner’s Standing on Guard for Thee isn’t just an important book. It is both a corrective, and a reminder. Canada is now a post-Christian country by every metric—a mere 11% of Canadians attend any form of worship regularly—but it was not always thus. Our country was transformed in the decades between the two Trudeaus, and our new national narrative is now that our founding values had to be abandoned in order for Canada to become the bastion of secular progressivism that now defines our image at home and on the world stage. . . . When academics and historians turn their attention to the pro-life or pro-family movement, it is usually to celebrate their defeats or mock their failings. The story of Canada’s Christian counter-revolutionaries has been left largely unwritten—until now. Michael Wagner’s Standing on Guard for Thee: The Past, Present, and Future of Canada’s Religious Right offers the other side of the story."
Canada: Standing on Guard for Thee by Dr. Michael Wagner offers a pioneering examination of the political influence wielded by Canadian Christians throughout the nation's history. Contrary to the widespread belief, including among Canadian Christians, that the "Christian Right" is an American import. Wagner's meticulously researched work demonstrates that such a perception diverges from historical reality. The book compellingly argues that Christian political influence is integral to the very foundation of Canada as a nation and continues to play a significant role in shaping its contemporary landscape.
Dr. Michael Wagner is the author of the Christian Citizenship Guide, Leaving God Behind, True Right, Alberta: Separatism Then and Now, No Other Option, The Anglosphere’s Broken Covenant, and Time to Leave. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta and lives in Edmonton with his wife and eleven children.
293 pages
