The powers that be at the recent Southern Baptist convention were not happy with bloggers, because they had an influence, both ministers and lay people. In preparation for the next SBC convention the attacks are starting early. Dr. Moore of the South Baptist Theological Seminary recently:
You have some bloggers in the SBC who are just [...]

Millions of people like, use and become quite attached to forums.
But to date, there have been no search engines that computer users can use to mine the gems found in them.
Omgili is looking to change that - a forum search engine.

Tim Challes, who writes a lot of book reviews and who is busy writing his own book, noticed the  USA Today article on bloggers being sued.
Micheal Geist, looks at Canadian libel law and free speech issues (example)
Since blogs are considered media - here is a quick primer on obscenity, hate discrimination, libel and defamation.
With thousands [...]

16 thousand people in the town of Apex North Carolina ( a suburb of Raleigh) have been evacuated because of  a cloud of chlorine gas spewing from an industrial fire.
A leak at the EQ (Environmental Quality) North Carolina waste management plant at 9 pm tonight spewed large plumes of the gas into the air just before the plant burst [...]

Blog on the Lilypad does what few of us are able to do - reach back into a subculture of fundamentalism and face them down.
Jeri came out of a background of egregious beliefs and practises, and knows what it is like to to live in fear, be bound by rules, and be battered by churches lorded [...]

A funny thing happened a few years ago. I always assumed that people who complain about church have a bad attitude. One day, I began to listen to complainers. To be sure, some do have bad attitudes. Others, though, are what I would call redemptively discontent.
The discontent part comes easily. Anyone who has been in [...]

Paul Wells looks at The Walrus Piece on Steven Harper and the religious right in - So much for the power of God.
McDonald quotes a colourful array of anti-gay-marriage, anti-abortion, occasionally millenarian characters who are “convinced that Harper is one of their own.” If the evidence so far is limited, there is a reason: “only after [...]

When I was a kid, my adopted parents did not perceive politeness as optional. I was raised to be polite. So much so, that as a child if I did not say thank you, please, excuse me, or observe basic rules of courtesy, I got a look or a smack across the side of the head.
My [...]