This piece in the Wall Street Journal has concluded most blogs don’t get much traffic.
Right. They don’t.
Political and tech blogs from the US garner the most amount of traffic according to trackers, and compared to the web at large, the numbers are small.
God-blogs aren’t even on the radar screen.
There has been no solid research on [...]

I mentioned Kingston Ontario in the post below. I grew up there, and couldn’t wait to leave.
There were a lot of advantages, Queen’s University’s diverse population exposed me to people from all over the world. I learned a lot about the corrections system. I was close to the US, and was given the opportunity to [...]

Kingston Ontario is a fairly average place, a border city with a first class university and nine penal institutions. It was Canada’s first capital.
The city has a population of about 55 thousand, and adding in the township growth, the police service about 112 thousand.
Yesterday the first study on racial profiling by police was released. City [...]

Speaking of sub-cultures, this sect in Asia has a media relations problem also.
The Sky Kingdom sect is in northern Malaysia. The 61 year old leader claims to be God. His followers have a six acre compound.
On the compound is a giant pink teapot. The teapot symbolizes the showering of God’s blessings on all mankind. One [...]

I mentioned Ted Haggard in a post below.
I have to be honest, I know very little about him. All I know is what I’ve read.
I know that he is the head of The National Association of Evangelicals in the US.
That is a powerful position.
I know from where I sit, his theology is dodgy to me.
He [...]

Tim Challies has an excellent post on the marketing technique behind The Purpose Driven Life. The book was written by a guy in the US who is the main minister at a mega-church.
Rick Warren’s book was wildly successful, not because it’s a particularly good book, or even a theologically sound one. It was successful because [...]

The Globe and Mail has an article up on an Ispo Reed poll in the US about blogs.
2,537 US adults were surveyed. 30 percent had read a blog at least once.
More people in the western US read blogs.
More than half of blog readers felt that blogs were accurate and 68% believed blogs had an influence [...]

Jeff Sharlett of The Revealer spent some time talking with a BBC reporter who is working the US evangelical/political beat to help enlighten worried Europeans.
Rod Parsley was essentially the focus of their conversation. You can read Jeff’s account here.
American evangelicalism is very much it’s own breed. I don’t know most of the players, but I [...]