18 August 2025

Dear Living Skies Regional Council, siblings, friends, neighbours, strangers…

Many of us have been drawn into, and affected by, the unfolding story of Sean Feucht’s “Let Us Worship Canada 2025” tour. Concerts booked, cancelled and rescheduled; now, Saskatoon and Edmonton are two of the only remaining cities in the country to allow this concert to proceed at a publicly-owned venue.

Numerous concerns are being raised in regard to Mr. Feucht’s political and religious positions. He preaches superiority of one faith over all others, and one expression of Christianity over all others. He engages in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and promotes dominion theology. He sows discord and division.

Mr. Feucht’s Christianity is not my Christianity, certainly not the Christianity of the Living Skies Regional Council and that of the United Church of Canada.

The United Church of Canada on its crest echoes the words of Jesus: “That all may be one” (John 17:21) and acknowledges our interconnectedness through words “all my relations.” Our 1968 creed begins with: “We are not alone, we live in God’s world.” The 45th General Council has just issued historical apologies to 2S and LGBTQIA+ people.

I am astounded at bookings of Mr. Feucht’s concerts at public venues by an administrative entities who claim the ownership of the values that are in stark opposition to those of Mr. Feucht’s.

We react to this unfolding drama in different ways. We wish to take different actions and to say different things. May love be the undercurrent of all our responses to Mr. Feucht, to his followers and to all that he brings into our midst.

To all of us who are unsure, angry, who feel attacked or rejected, I would like us to remember the words of Apostle Paul: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV, Romans 8:38-39).

Nothing can separate us from the love of God … nothing … and certainly not Mr. Feucht.

I am holding you all in my prayers.

With blessing,

The Rev. Piotr Strzelecki
Convenor of the Living Skies Regional Council of The United Church of Canada.