A citizen action group within a Calgary church is helping fellow members engage political issues and hopes their template will help other congregations do the same.
The impetus for the Citizens Action Group of Southside Victory Church in Calgary started five years ago. Pastor Craig Buroker was concerned about gender identity educational materials entering Alberta schools but was unsure how to engage the issue.
“The NDP government was in Alberta, and they were changing the school curriculum to this SOGI—[Sexual] Orientation Gender Identity. One day I was reading the Bible, and the Scripture said, ‘If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?’” Buroker recalled in an interview….