How’s faith in Canada? A few studies have come out in the past year that look into some specifics when it comes to the general attitudes and beliefs in Canada. It’s a privilege to have Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada, Wyatt Graham, with us this week to discuss some of those findings and how the church can best respond. For example, why are we seeing young people more interested in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy today? Why are liberal/progressive churches shrinking? Join us for this week’s conversation.

 

Who is Our Guest?

Wyatt Graham serves as the Executive Director of TGC Canada. You can follow him on Twitter at @wagraham.

Episode Links

Make sure to check out the article, 10 Things You Should Know About Religion in Canada. There you’ll find links to the various studies Wyatt mentioned.

 

Wyatt is the Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada. Also, he blogs regularly at DeTrinitate.

 

     

 

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Isaac:

With me today is Wyatt Graham. Wyatt serves as the Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada, and he also blogs regularly at WyattGraham.com. It’s great to have you with us today, Wyatt.

Wyatt:

Happy to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

Isaac:

Yeah, definitely. Firstly, who are you? I mean we’ve talked on the phone. We’ve also met when you were over here in the West Coast, and we met at a little TGC conference. It was a lot of fun. But anyways, for those who don’t know you, who are you and maybe how’d you come to faith?

Wyatt:

Okay. At the highest level, I’m Canadian. I was born in British Columbia, so I’m born in the same province that you’re in.

I’ve also lived in Alberta, grew up kind of in Western Canada, traveled or did education down south, and now I’m back in Canada but in Ontario. Then the smaller story about how I became a Christian, how I found faith, that one’s a bit odd because there’s really two events in my life that maybe kind of drew me close to the Lord or could have been conversion events.

The first was in British Columbia actually. I was whatever, three, four, five, six, and I just remember praying with my brother and asking for the Lord to forgive me or something to that effect. The second would be about 16, 17. Couldn’t sleep one night and I went to a cooler room in the house and found a Bible. I opened it up and read it, and something changed the next day, and I just had a huge desire to know what the Bible said. Eventually, I consistently followed the Lord. I’m not really sure which of those two events was my conversion, or maybe it was the first one and the second part was really just the Lord drawing me to a closer relationship to him. It’s hard to know.

Isaac:

Yeah, yeah. That’s so good. For those who don’t know, what’s The Gospel Coalition Canada,