Canada Day is a celebration, but it’s also a mirror. When we pause long enough to look, we start asking bigger questions: What shaped Canada into the kind of place that values freedom and justice? What happens when a culture forgets the difference between right and wrong? And what does faith have to do with the strength of a nation’s character?

Today I share a personal thread from my own life a book my wife gave me called Canada Portraits of Faith. It highlights 52 people whose faith influenced Canada in lasting ways, from early educators to hymn writers to leaders who quietly changed the course of history. Along the way, we remember names like Marguerite Bourgeoys, Joseph Scriven (who wrote “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”), John Hunter, and Timothy Eaton, each one a reminder that belief can become service and that legacy is often built through everyday faithfulness.

We also sit with a powerful quote from Pierre Elliott Trudeau about the “golden thread of faith” woven throughout Canada’s story, shaping values that strengthened our laws and our lives. Then we bring it home with Scripture: Psalm 88’s warning about the “land of forgetfulness” and Jesus’ words in Matthew 5 that we are “the salt of the earth.” If salt loses its taste, it stops preserving anything and that image is a challenge I can’t shake.

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