RECKONING WITH CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
A Reformed Response
Join us for the Fourth Annual Conference of the Reformed House of Studies at Wycliffe College.
What’s behind the broad interest today in the topic of Christian Nationalism? Should Christians be working to make our nations “Christian nations”? What about working to see the Christian gospel shape public policy? Come and consider!
DATE AND LOCATION
June 6, 2026 | 9 AM - 2:15 PM
Wycliffe College (5 Hoskin Ave)
University of Toronto
Reckoning with Christian Nationalism
2026 Conference Speakers
James Wood
Keynote Speaker
Rev. Dr. James R. Wood (PhD, University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University (Ancaster, ON) and a teaching elder in the PCA, which he currently serves as a member of the Ad Interim Study Committee on Christian Nationalism. He has forthcoming books on Augustine’s social teachings (Baker, 2026) and Thomas F. Torrance’s ecclesiology (Davenant, 2026). He also cohosts Mere Fidelity (Mere Orthodoxy) and the Civitas podcast (Theopolis), which focuses on political theology with a particular focus on contributing to the postliberal discourse with an ecclesiocentric framing.
David Koyzis
Respondent to “Christian Nationalism and the Reformed Tradition”
David T. Koyzis (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Redeemer University, and an affiliated scholar with Global Scholars Canada. Dr. Koyzis is the author of Political Visions and Illusions (IVP, 2019), We Answer to Another (Pickwick, 2014), and Citizenship Without Illusions (IVP, 2024).
Kristen Deede Johnson
Respondent to “Critiquing Christian Nationalism”
Kristen Deede Johnson (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Principal and Helliwell Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Culture at Wycliffe College. She is an award-winning author and her publications include Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism: Beyond Tolerance and Difference (Cambridge: 2010), The Justice Calling (Brazos, 2017), and “The Theologian” in Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, eds. Timothy Keller et al. (Thomas Nelson, 2020).
Lyndon Jost
Conference Host
Lyndon Jost (PhD, University of Toronto) is the Director of the Reformed House of Studies at Wycliffe College and Associate Pastor of Christ Church Toronto (PCA). He is the author of Transfiguring Headship: A Figural Theology of Gender (Pickwick, 2026).
Dan Conway
The conference will be punctuated through the day with “Songs of the Kingdom” led by musician Dan Conway.
Dan Conway (BTh, Trinity Theological College) is Director of Worship at Christ Church Toronto. He was born, raised, and born again in Australia. After completing his studies he worked for seven years in congregational and university ministry in Singapore. He and his family began a new chapter of life in Toronto in early 2025. Prior to conversion Dan was a writing, recording, and performing musician, and now writes regularly at Ploddingham.com.
Conference Schedule
9:00 am - arrival and check in with coffee and light refreshments
9:15 am - welcome — Lyndon Jost
9:20 am - Songs of the Kingdom — Dan Conway
9:25 am - Contemporary Arguments for Christian Nationalism (with Q&A) — James Wood
10:25 am - break
10:45 am - Songs of the Kingdom — Dan Conway
10:50 am - Christian Nationalism and the Reformed Tradition — James Wood
11:35 am - Response from David Koyzis
11:50 am - break for lunch
12:45 pm - Songs of the Kingdom — Dan Conway
12:50 pm - Critiquing Christian Nationalism — James Wood
1:35 pm - Response from Kristen Deede Johnson
1:50 pm - Panel Q&A
2:15 pm - close in prayer
Join us for this one-day conference on Saturday, June 6 at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto.
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