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JONATHON VAN MAREN

Jonathon Van Maren is a writer and public speaker with bylines in First
Things, National Review, The American Conservative, and elsewhere. He is
communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.  



Bio last updated January 6th, 2022.




ARTICLES BY JONATHON VAN MAREN


REMEMBERING TED BYFIELD


BY JONATHON VAN MAREN


JANUARY 6, 2022

Ted Byfield was no quitter and until his passing over the holidays, he was a
front-line culture warrior in the journalism, publishing, and Christian
education spheres, Jonathon Van Maren writes.

For more than a half-century, he was one of Canada’s most significant public
Christians, and his life’s work included the founding of a religious order, the
formation of several Christian boarding schools for boys, a series of
influential newsmagazines, laying the groundwork for a political movement,
writing books, and serving as editor on a magnificent 12-volume history of
Christianity, The Christians: Their First Two Thousand Years There was suddenly
an abundance of work, and Ted’s lifelong work ethic was forged as a delivery boy
on Toronto’s streets and his first foray into the newspaper business came when
he began selling Liberty Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post on the beaches
of the Toronto Islands It was Sayers’ work on education that launched the
Byfields on their next great adventure—the founding first of a weekend classical
school and outdoor program based out of the Cathedral, and then a boarding
school for boys in Selkirk in 1958

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 * TRUE NORTH INTERVIEW
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   DECEMBER 23, 2021
   
   Reading the Canadian storyteller’s posthumous new book, Jonathon Van Maren
   retraces in imagination his travels from his own driveway to the main streets
   of small towns and cities across the land.
   
   But the reason his work rings so real to me is that so many of his
   experiences in “real” Canada echo mine, and so many of his ruminations on our
   small towns perfectly encapsulate my own experiences over the past decade
   Such was the intimacy and immediacy McLean’s magnificent voice engendered
   that wh...
   
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 * WHEN PRO CHOICE MEETS NO CHOICE
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   AUGUST 20, 2021
   
   The abortion question Canada’s federal leaders should address is why so many
   women feel they have no viable alternative, Jonathon Van Maren argues.
   
   Have you ever noticed that pro-abortion politicians simply assume there are
   many unwanted babies, but no unwanted abortions? The Abortion Rights
   Coalition of Canada—run by Joyce Arthur, who could not be more extreme on the
   issue if she tried — published a paper in 2018 titled “Why Women Have
   Abortio...
   
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 * THE SPIRITUAL SOLUTION TO RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   JULY 26, 2021
   
   From a profound Christian faith, Residential School survivor Chief Kenny
   Blacksmith believes true healing will come not from politics but from paying
   our debt to God, Jonathon Van Maren reports. 
   
   In the years after his residential school experience, Blacksmith read books
   on the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, researching their ways Blacksmith
   summarized his experience thusly: “Forced to live away from home, stripped of
   your true identity and punished every time you tried to express yourself...
   
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 * GRAVE MEN FACING A GRAVE FAITH
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   MAY 25, 2021
   
   Jonathon Van Maren reports on a series of leading serious intellectuals who
   recognize the need for Christianity’s resurrection but can’t quite bring the
   faith to life in themselves.
   
   What we do know is that he thought Christianity was in many ways the soul of
   Western civilization, and that the uniquely Christian concept of forgiveness
   was utterly indispensable to its survival Their intellectual siloes were a
   refuge from faith because they didn’t want Christianity to be true ...
   
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 * REBUKING CANADA’S AFRICAN COLONIALISM
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   APRIL 6, 2021
   
   In conversation with Convivium contributor Jonathon Van Maren, former career
   diplomat David Mulroney says Canada’s residential school past should curb its
   neocolonialist urges in Africa.
   
   “As a former public servant, the problem I have with our ‘feminist foreign
   policy,’ in which abortion is central to our development work in Africa, is
   that good foreign policy and good development policy depend on actually
   listening to the people you’re trying to help or engage,” Mulroney explained
   ...
   
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 * AN UNLIKELY ALLIANCE AGAINST PORN
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   JANUARY 14, 2021
   
   Jonathon Van Maren reports on the teamwork of a socially conservative Alberta
   MP and liberal feminist senator from Montreal to combat the
   Canadian-controlled smut giant Pornhub.
   
   Both Viersen and Miville-Dechêne hope that the new attention focused on
   Pornhub and MindGeek will also attract new attention to their work, add new
   members to their coalition, and finally result in legislation—supported by
   all parties—that will implement meaningful protections for children “Our
   chil...
   
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 * WHEN BELIEVERS BECOME INVISIBLE
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   DECEMBER 4, 2020
   
   COVID-19 has revealed an uncomfortable reality, Jonathon Van Maren points
   out: closure of churches isn’t State persecution but widespread ignorance of
   what goes on inside them.
   
   I am emphatically not offering any opinion on how religious leaders should
   respond to the various COVID-19 restrictions on worship That said, I suspect
   hostility towards people of faith is not the primary motivator for much of
   the government approach to churches and other places of worship There is ...
   
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 * THE CHIEF GAVE LIFE TO RIGHTS
   
   
   JONATHON VAN MAREN
   
   
   NOVEMBER 23, 2020
   
   Canada’s political amnesia leaves Prime Minister John Diefenbaker almost
   forgotten. Jonathon Van Maren discovers lost letters that affirm how fiercely
   Dief fought for human rights from womb to tomb.  
   
   Diefenbaker was one of 43 Progressive Conservative MPs to vote against Pierre
   Trudeau’s Omnibus Bill which, among other things, decriminalized abortion for
   the first time in a century, but his speech on the 1968-69 Criminal Law
   Amendment Act didn’t mention abortion How many Canadians know, for examp...
   
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