Marc and Aline Mailloux

Marc and Aline Mailloux

I was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in a Roman Catholic milieu. I rejected the Roman traditions and began searching for the Truth in life when I was sixteen. After graduation from high school in 1971, I spent the summer hitchhiking around Western Europe and met two people who were to influence him greatly; Francis Schaeffer and Timothy Leary.

Evangelicalism In France, The Last Fifty Years

Evangelicalism In France, The Last Fifty Years

Protestantism is a very marginal minority in France, numerically less than 2% of the total population. France Mission estimates there are 1.700.000 protestants in France and 600.000 evangelicals. The first figure seems generous as people can say they are protestant when they are not catholic.

       In the second half of the 20th century, the Roman Catholic church “lost” France, with religious practice and christenings plummeting. In spite of that, it is still a cultural heavyweight in society, and if you say you are “christian” that will be understood as Roman catholic.    

       The mainline Protestant churches suffered a comparable decline, undermined by secularism and ecumenism. In this sense the Protestant minority in France adapted too well to the majority, both social and religious, and in so doing lost its soul through compromise with humanism or catholicism.

       Loss of doctrinal identity and the absence of a clear message constitute a menace to the survival of traditional churches...

A Good Time To Remember Two Great Truths

A Good Time To Remember Two Great Truths

            We are overwhelmed by current events. A new American President has been elected; Bob Dylan is a Nobel Prize laureate; Brexit is on slow-down; ISIS is still fighting; major earthquakes roil central Italy; Jakartans riot over the governor’s alleged blasphemy; 6500 refugees are evicted from Calais…

            It is good at this time to remember two great truths.