Monthly Archives: March 2006

The Washington Post hired a blogger named Ben Domench recently to write a blog called Red America. He was hired around March 20th. He resigned today because of plagiarism. Resigned, effective immediately.  This kind of thing ticks a lot of people off, and … Continue reading →

Jasim Mohammed Khalaf, a reporter-in-training for The Institute for War and Peace Reporting spent 12 days in US detention in Iraq. Here is his accounting. Then we were separated. I was confined in a solitary cell no bigger than two-by-one … Continue reading →

via: Tom Paine  – Bill Moyers tribute to James Dunn at the Wake Forest Divinity School. I pulled out the lighter hearted paragraphs because the truths of history are heavy. James Dunn and Bill Leonard are Baptists. What kind of Baptist … Continue reading →

I’ve been away, to be honest I’ve been so emotionally, mentally, physically and socially weary I have not wanted to function. So the last while I’ve had the opportunity to have a few road trips without having to pay for them. … Continue reading →

Jenny Jackson has an excellent piece in the Ottawa Citizen this weekend about a seminar held in Ottawa by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy called Navigating the Faith/Politics Interface. About 90 people attended. It is run by Preston Manning,  of … Continue reading →

I received a generous offer from R.G. Mitchell,  a Canadian distributor of religious books. You can get the details in this post and a list of the publishers. You’d be free to post as many reviews as you’d like by arrangement with … Continue reading →

I didn’t mean to laugh.  I really didn’t. LaShawn Barber didn’t have time for her blog – she is busy trying to make a living as a writer. So, she came up with a blog ‘class project’ in classic new media style. She gave … Continue reading →

On his Daily Show one evening, Jon Stewart compared the importance of his home region in presidential elections with that of his guest, Newt Gingrich. “I’m from the Northeast,” he said. “We used to be important.” Let me play Stewart … Continue reading →