NOVEMBER 2026 NEWSLETTER

We are now in the final quarter of the calendar year when people consider donating to various causes and charities. Please consider making a financial contribution to my work with Global Scholars Canada. Your contributions help to support the following:

1. I draw a small monthly salary from these funds to supplement my private and public pension income, and together they cover a portion of the time and energy put into the various responsibilities I have taken on.
2. The funds cover equipment, supplies, books, and other incidental expenses incurred in my work. The computer on which I work and the connected printer are two of the major pieces of equipment provided by your generous contributions.
3. I have resumed some work-related travel. Your contributions will help to support this travel, especially where resources in the host country are insufficient to cover the costs.

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.

If you cannot afford to give, please do continue to pray for my work. I would deeply appreciate it.

I am still enjoying the afterglow of my visit two months ago to the Netherlands, which you can read about here: Nederland 2026. After I wrote up my blog series report on my experiences, I sent a link to the Dr. Abraham Kuyper Foundation, which partially funded my visit, along with a thank-you note via conventional post. In response I received the following email message from dr. Hillie van de Streek, Secretary General of that organization and of EPP Women (Women of the European People's Party):

Thank you very much for your report on your trip to The Netherlands. I read it with great interest and will forward it to our General Board to be discussed in our upcoming General Board Meeting.

Your visit seems to have contributed to again raising awareness about the role of Christians and Christian organizations in the public sphere - and in particular politics. You visited our Parliament, the CU as a political party, and the CHE and TUU as educational institutions, which all contribute to developing not only public theology but also Christian inspired political thought.

I can tell you from my personal experiences in Dutch and European politics that Europe badly needs to rethink its roots and its values. We seem to have lost them in a secular capitalist economist (consumerism) worldview. Input from outside, e.g. Canada, can help us find a new, Christian inspired way towards the future. Our younger generations are longing for this to find their way.

Thank you again. May God bless you in your work. 

I am grateful for this expression of appreciation for my work and contribution to the advance of God's kingdom in the Netherlands and Europe. I hope one day to return while I am still in sufficiently good health for such travels.

As I reported in my previous newsletter, during my visit I was interviewed by several media outlets. One of them has now published an article, based on an online interview that occurred after my return home: Segers and Koyzis on citizenship. Gert-Jan Segers is a former member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament and one-time leader of the ChristenUnie political party. The article is in Dutch, of course, but speakers of other languages can easily use online translators to access it.

During my many travels this year I discovered that I could no longer carry on without a smartphone, the acquisition of which I had put off for years. This prompted me to publish a brief article on the subject: An unwanted phone. Incidentally my new phone number is in the signature file in my email messages.

Americans went to the polls earlier this month in their midterm elections, delivering a blow to the Trump administration. After the results had come in, I penned two analyses of what had occurred. The first was Is MAGA done for? Spoiler alert: probably not, but it has been dealt a definite setback. (Incidentally, a little over a year ago I published an article titled, MAGA Kuyper? Why the Dutch Polymath Would Not Wear the Hat. I continue to believe that a 19th-and-early 20th-century statesman has relevance for our day.)

The second analysis was More thoughts on the US midterms, an expansion of four points I had made on social media two days earlier. Suffice it to say that the American party system is not in good health and appears to be needlessly exacerbating the political polarization that has intensified since the turn of the millennium. Related to this analysis, in 2020 I wrote an article for The Gospel Coalition: The American Political Parties: History, Problems, and Prospects. Six years later I stand by my analysis, which I believe still has relevance today.

Thank you again for your support for my work.

Yours in God's service,

David Koyzis, Global Scholar