MARCH 2025 NEWSLETTER

I discovered recently, to my consternation, that I had not been receiving the reports of financial contributions made through Global Scholars US during the time that I've been affiliated with Global Scholars Canada. Only in the past weeks am I now able to access the statistics from GSUS. In the meantime, this means that I have been thanking personally only those who have donated through GSC. I offer my sincerest apologies to everyone else for this inadvertent oversight. In the coming weeks, I will be rectifying this and contacting each US donor individually. Just doing my part to smooth relations between the two countries at a time of some uncertainty.

Last month Global Scholars Canada celebrated its 30th anniversary with a book launch at Faith Baptist Church in Oakville, Ontario. Four books were launched at the event, including Citizenship Without Illusions. You can view my remarks and those of the other authors here.

Cateclesia Forum has published my essay, By Schisms Rent Asunder: The Four Seasons of Church Splits, commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. Approximately every half millennium since the dawn of our era, the church has been racked by struggles over christology, ecclesiology, soteriology, and, most recently, anthropology.

In recent months I have made the acquaintance of Brent Siddall of New Zealand who has interviewed me twice for his God's Story Podcast. The first interview has now been posted and can be heard here: David Koyzis — Citizenship Without Illusions. The second interview is forthcoming, and I will link to it when it is posted.

A few weeks ago I was scheduled to speak at the annual Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh sponsored by the Coalition for Christian Outreach. I was all set to go when, a few days beforehand, I developed a case of "benign" vertigo (as the doctor described it) which prevented my appearance there. Only days prior to my affliction, I was interviewed by John Hall and Kathy Emmons over Word 101.5 FM, a Pittsburgh radio station. You can find a link to the interview here. I hope I will be invited to Jubilee again next year and that my health will hold up then.

Jason Scott Montoya has interviewed me several times in the past for his podcast, and he did so again recently. The topic this time is: How to wisely engage politically.

Between 2009 and 2023 I was an occasional blogger for the periodical First Things, which is headquartered in New York City and has been in existence since 1990. Several weeks ago, they revamped their website and, in the process, deleted virtually everything I had written for them. However, nothing on the world wide web is ever gone for good, and I was easily able to locate archived copies of most of what I had written. I have now republished forty of these as blog pages, which can be accessed here: First Things posts. The deletion came on the heels of something I wrote in January: FT's evolution: 'populism' overtakes 'highbrow'. Whether the timing is merely coincidental I cannot say.

Every two years I generally attend and participate in the Henry Institute Symposium at Calvin University, as I did last year. While there I almost always spend time with colleagues at other universities, such as Micah Watson (Calvin University), Jesse Covington (Westmont College), and Bryan McGraw (Wheaton College). These three have now published a book that is definitely worth reading: Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics. I have written a review of the book here: Assessing 'Hopeful Realism'.

The Canadian periodical, Faith Today, has published David Daniels' review of Citizenship Without Illusions in the March/April 2025 issue: Faith Today review of CWI.

Late last summer Peter Bell interviewed me on the subject of two of my books, and it was finally posted just this week: The Idolatry of Politics. This comes in between two seasons of his longer Sons of Patriarchy series.

Thanks so much for your ongoing support for my work. If you have contributed financially on a one-time basis in the past, please consider a regular monthly contribution, as it makes it easier for Global Scholars to set an annual budget, including the modest salary I receive from the organization. GSC's page for giving can be found here. Once you are in the page, scroll down to the heading marked DONATION DETAILS, and then choose one of the options under FUND. Americans may donate through our sister organization in the US.

Or, if you prefer, Canadian donors can donate publicly traded securities (shares or mutual funds) directly to charities without having to pay the capital gains tax. This is a cost-effective and painless way to make a donation that comes with a substantial tax incentive. By donating securities, donors pay no tax on capital gains, receive a tax receipt for the fair market value of the securities, as well as reduce their taxes. Watch this video for more information about this option: Link Charity Canada: Donation of Securities. If interested, please visit the Link Charity Canada Inc. website, and call for details at 1-800-387-8146. Link Charity Canada is a partner organization of Global Scholars Canada, so Link Charity can easily direct funds for my work. Thank you!

Yours in God's service,

David Koyzis, Global Scholar