Jeri at Blog on the Lilypad is fearless in her ongoing exposure of abuses in what is called the Fundamentalist Independent Baptists in the US. And coming out of that background, her on going exposure has put her under abuse. But she has also helped others find the courage to speak out and speak up. [...]

Richard Bott of looking back…looking forward is a master story teller.
Unfortunately he seems to be involved in a real life misadventure and true to his story telling skills, readers of his blog don’t know if this misadventure has a happy or unresolved ending.
And now, reading this, you don’t know either:^)
On top of his real life [...]

About a week and a half ago I was talking to a friend in the softwood lumber industry who was quite irked at what he had watched earlier that day on CPAC. (August 21,2006)
During the committee hearings (Standing Committee on International Trade) he said a lawyer had stated very plainly that part of the settlement of the [...]

VANCOUVER (CP) - It’s too early to say whether the U.S. arrest of a polygamous leader will have an impact in Canada on an investigation into the sect’s Bountiful, B.C. community, says an RCMP spokesman.
Sgt. John Ward said Warren Jeffs is not facing any charges in Canada, nor is he a suspect in the Mounties’ [...]

   
Election
 

   
 # of candidates
 

   
# of votes
 

   
% of popular vote
 

   
% of popular vote CHP ridings
 

1988
63
102,533
0.78%
3.56%

1993
58
30,455
0.22%
1.09%

1997
53
29,085
0.22%
1.26%

2000
 46*
10,110*
0.08*
0.51%*

2004
62
40,283
0.30%
1.52%

2006
45
28,163
0.19%
1.32%

 
I’ve been thinking about all the media attention and noise the minor Christian religious right in Canada has been making since The Conservative Party national executive ruled that candidates must be in place in each riding in the country for the next election earlier [...]

Lakehead University is a small academic setting in Thunder Bay - about 850 miles north of Toronto and situated at the top of Lake Superior.
The ad was designed by a Toronto firm and features the current US President with the slogan:  ”Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t mean you’re smart, choosing the option of [...]

Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion has religious background on the rise of Pentecostalism due to mission efforts in the Arctic and why Inuit converts would perceive the Qajartalik Island petroglyphs as defiling their ‘pentecostal land’ as opposed to being a major archaeological find and of heritage value.
Richard’s post also looks at similar kind of neo-pentecostal beliefs in Africa, Fiji, [...]

Jews for Jesus is being sued.
 This is really offensive to me. It is not the gospel (the good news of who Jesus is) that offends me, it is the obvious and blatant pot shot at a celebrity. Without. his. permission. There is an undertone to this that is very wrong, it is not good natured, there is [...]