I knew I wasn’t the target audience for the Premier’s Annual Christian Summit, featuring Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as the main speaker. Still, the May 4 event, which was at some point quietly rebranded as the Alberta Christian Leadership Summit, claimed to be “designed for Christian leaders interested in engaging issues shaping our province,” and I thought: “Well, that’s me!” The summit promised to bring together politicians and Christians to have conversations on framing policies in Alberta.

I was hesitant about going. Not because, as a progressive Christian, I feared being a potential sheep among wolves, but because I wondered whether attending would lend legitimacy to an ultra-conservative Christian political gathering. I prayed and thought about it for a while. When my application to register was approved, I decided that my version of Christianity needed to be in that room. 

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