Around the world: Church and state
This journal article examines a Canadian case where church elders faced legal fines for holding worship services during COVID-19 restrictions, raising questions about the relationship between civil government authority and ecclesiastical freedom. The author presents the incident without advocating for a particular position on the legitimacy of the law, but rather invites Reformed readers to reflect on this unprecedented targeting of individual church leaders rather than institutions.
A report from The Christian Post gives an example of civil governments using their authority in relation to the church in a seemingly unprecedented way.1 The circumstances, of course, are unique, but it gives Christians in North America pause when we see the long arm of the law going where it has not gone before, at least not in recent memory. The example arises out of a violation committed by Trinity Bible Chapel of Waterloo, Ontario by virtue of holding a worship service on December 27,...
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