Without a Prayer: How Christianity is Losing Ground in Canada
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
12-2018
Abstract
I didn’t like high school very much; in fact, I loathed it. Mine wasn’t a rough or mismanaged school. It ranked highly in Toronto, and many decades after graduating I was honoured with being included on its inaugural Wall of Fame. But the memory of unhappiness has never quite been expunged.
My grade school was a Catholic one nestled in the heart of the township of York and I loved it. But when I graduated from grade 8 and then entered grade 9 at the local public secondary, I was adrift, the surroundings so unfamiliar and the culture so strange I never succeeded in acclimating. The school was predominantly Jewish—-children of post-Second World War immigrants—and the teachers predominantly WASPs. The Catholic contingent was small and inconsequential, or so it seemed to me.
Recommended Citation
Higgins, M.W. (2018, December). Without a prayer: How Christianity is losing ground in Canada [Review of the book Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945, by B. Clarke & S. Macdonald]. Literary Review of Canada.
Comments
Review of Leaving Christianity: Changing Allegiances in Canada since 1945 by Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald.
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