Alexa and Sheila talk about their recent cross-country documentary tour, Church Under Fire: Canada's War on Christianity. They also talk about what it's like being a pastor in Canada in the late 90s and early 00s.
00:00:00.000Oh, good morning, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Rebel News Daily Roundup.
00:00:19.940I'm your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I'm joined by my co-host, Alexa Lavoie.
00:00:23.860Normally, the show is hosted by our friend David Menzies and one of the frequent travelers through the show here, myself, or some of the other talent.
00:00:32.560But today, it's me, it's Alexa, because they're doing some work in the studio.
00:00:41.060Oh, I'm good. I'm still recovering from our documentary tour of the country.
00:00:45.900I want to say it was a cross-country documentary tour, but we crisscrossed the country several times, taking some pretty oppressive flights just to save money.
00:00:55.820But it was exciting to be able to bring the documentary directly to the congregations that lived it.
00:01:03.180It's anxiety-inducing, because you want to make sure you did a good job, because the people who lived it are going to see it.
00:01:08.400And I think, based on the feedback we got, I think we did a pretty good job, but it's exhausting, and we're not done yet.
00:01:16.260I think Ian and I are home for maybe a week or so, maybe 10 days, before we start it up again.
00:01:23.640But if people want to see what I'm talking about, they can go to churchunderfiremovie.com or savethechristians.com,
00:01:32.080and that's where you'll see the trailer and information on the upcoming screenings,
00:01:38.660or how we can bring a screening to you of our new documentary, Church Under Fire, Canada's War on Christianity.
00:01:45.780They can find that there, and I think it's one of the most important things that we've ever done here at Rebel News,
00:01:50.960because the people who did this to us want us to forget, and I'm not going to let them.
00:01:55.740The congregations might forgive. I'm not ready yet, but we should never forget.
00:02:02.080But from the perspective of someone who saw it, it was just amazing, really moving.
00:02:08.280I almost cried at one point. I was like, oh my God, I was not expecting that.
00:02:13.740But actually, like Sheila, you did an incredible job, especially with Kian.
00:02:19.180I was there for the Ottawa screening, and it was just amazing.
00:02:24.760Yeah, and I'm so grateful for your help.
00:02:27.000So, yeah, there are parts at which Kian and I, I mean, we made the documentary,
00:02:33.060and there's some parts that Kian still can't watch, and I think it's, for him, it's the little children
00:02:39.340being yanked away from their fathers for their father's crimes of, I don't know, holding church.
00:02:46.540I can't even believe we're saying that, but that's what Canada was like for three years.
00:02:50.400And the documentary details the fact that this didn't happen in a bubble.
00:02:54.760There was slow Trudeau government picking away at religious freedom until it was, I guess,
00:03:00.680for the majority of Canadians, perfectly acceptable to Holloway pastors in handcuffs.
00:03:05.380So, anyway, that's our documentary. I'm very proud of it.
00:03:08.960I flew home very, very early from Winnipeg Monday morning so we could do our final screening Monday night
00:03:17.000at Church in the Vine, and it was enormous. We had over 500 people there.
00:03:22.240It was just a packed sanctuary. It was amazing. It was great.
00:03:27.380And it was tiring, but I'm sort of sad that that part is over.
00:03:33.540It's kind of fun being on the road. I'm not used to sleeping, laying down.