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CANADIAN [EVIL] AMERICAN / SCOTT ALLEN CAVE
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What do we owe one another when we have the power to shape someone else’s future? Canadian [EVIL] American invites readers to consider dominion, caprice and stewardship—and to carry that conversation beyond the page.

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Canadian [EVIL] American · Scott Allen Cave
Reader edition · Working manuscript · 222 pages · PDF, 4.5 MB
French edition: Canadien [MAL] Américain · 247 pages · PDF, 6.2 MB.
Front and back covers included in both editions. Updated 19 October 2026.
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Synopsis

What does it mean to love our neighbours when we are learning to fear one another?

As trust between Canada and the United States erodes, Christians face a question that reaches beyond politics: how do we remain faithful to the call to love when fear makes domination sound like protection?

In Canadian [EVIL] American, Scott Allen Cave invites readers on both sides of the border to examine what we share: creativity and generosity, faith and belonging—and histories of exclusion, conquest, and suffering we have not fully faced. Beginning with Jesus and a sympathetic reading of Paul, he asks how beliefs that sustain communities can become justifications for power.

For Americans, Marco Rubio’s words in Athens sound a warning trumpet, prompting a journey beyond Athens to Miletus and the deeper histories that challenge any civilization’s claim to possess the whole truth. For Canadians, Lha yudit’ih—We Always Find a Way opens a path toward listening to Tŝilhqot’in voices and reading our own history honestly. Canada’s hope of helping the world heal begins with accepting the work of healing at home.

In uncertain times, Christians can refuse contempt, resist the use of faith to sanctify domination, defend their neighbours’ dignity, and make room for truths that require them to change. Love of country can sustain that work. Confession can begin it.

Faith, Power, and the Courage to Love Through Fear is an invitation to practise a love strong enough to hear another’s pain—and to let what we hear change what we do.