Sad news at connexions.
Mike Blakey, a 23 year old contributor, who had  a deep and sacrifical love for children of the slums has been killed while working in India.
He knew the dangers, but his love was more powerful. 
Police say his body was found partially buried in stones in a nullah (watercourse, gully, stream) and are treating his death as a murder.
Mike was working with children [...]

According to the Barna Research Group most Americans have never heard of:
Rick Warren - 72% say they have never heard of him
James Dobson - 57% said they had never heard of him
T.D. Jakes - 68% say they have never heard of him
Tim LaHaye - 73% have never heard of Mr. LaHaye
Joel Osteen - 67% have [...]

 
 
 
Groupings from Technorati
The Low Authority Group [D-List Bloggers]
(3-9 blogs linking in the last 6 months)
The average blog age (the number of days that the blog has been in existence) is about 228 days, which shows a real commitment to blogging. However, bloggers of this type average only 12 posts per month, meaning that their posting [...]

I completely neglected to mention the second round of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards is underway. So completely in fact, there are only two days left. Lots of familiar blogs and lots of new ones.

Canadians blogs are a real trip, diverse, lively…check it out, do some leapblogging and cast your vote.

Four people died in Canada the past few days, homeless and cold.
The Canadian Salvation Army is launching it’s Christmas campaign.
Take a look at the print and internet ads here, the TV spot, here.
And see.

 Rev. Joel Hunter, president elect of the once well known Christian Coalition has resigned.
He was set to take over for Roberta Coombs in January. Hunter is a senior pastor at Northland Church in Longwood, Florida. Coombs was president for five years.
The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America has declined the job, saying the organization wouldn’t [...]

The judge who acquitted a New Brunswick blogger of obstructing justice says Charles LeBlanc was merely “plying his trade” at a protest last summer and shouldn’t have been arrested.
In his 20-page written decision, Judge William McCarroll noted that LeBlanc was not among the mob of demonstrators during the Saint John protest, but was in a public space taking pictures of [...]

Spero News is the go to place for those interested in the Pontiff’s visit to Turkey.
The news site has set up a special aggregator, that will provide not only around the clock coverage from traditional news sources, but will also be providing different faith and political perspectives from alternate and citizen media.
If it looks busy, [...]