Put the coffee down, you don’t need it coming through your nose.
Click on the link, hit the audio play button.  (In The Midnight Jukebox)

       Song: Mrs. Beamish           

                                            Chorus:                                                              
Don’t you dare shake hands with me
Or turn to me and smile.             
You’ll wake up spitting teeth out,
Face downwards in the aisle.
Don’t whisper peace be with you,
This is the C [...]

Christianity Today staff have started another blog. The magazine has had a strong online presence since 1999 with it’s famous CT Weblog - a link round up of various religious news stories.
This new addition called Christianity Today Liveblog,  looks like it is modelled after their Leadership editor blog, with topics posted in a conversational way.  
So far, David Neff, Editor of Christianity Today, Madison Trammel, an Associate Editor and [...]

Authorities  confirmed they had found an unexploded bomb outside a womans clinic Austin Texas on Wednesday. No one has claimed responsibility. The clinic was back in operation on Thursday. An  elected member of the governing body of the Southern Baptist Convention openly supports The Army of God, a domestic terrorist anti abortion group.According to Ethics Daily the 2nd Vice President of the [...]

Politicians are noisy people. They demand attention and grab all the media time they can get. It’s part of the job, and media that cover them take it in stride and don’t think a lot about the demands. It’s part of the job.
I rarely get surprised or upset anymore, but something happened on the federal level the [...]

PBS Bill Moyers Journal has a blog.
The Christian Century has an interview with him, and it covers a lot of territory.
So much is being written and said about the alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party. What role do you think religion should have in the public arena?
Whose religion? Christian? Muslim? Jew? Sikh? [...]

Faith and Theology is holding elections for the worst theological invention ever.
Last year, we voted for the worst liturgical invention (see here and here). Now, it’s time to nominate “the worst theological invention.” What do you think is the worst (or silliest, or most absurd, or most destructive) theological invention? Which theological idea causes you [...]

A Fleming College student was arrested on the weekend after writing threats on his blog.
(the blog has been taken offline)
City police Sgt. Walter DiClemente said police received a complaint Friday from someone who had read the student’s blog.
“They were disturbed and alarmed at what they read,” DiClemente said. “We were then able to identify the author.”
After the [...]

Michelle Muntean, Stephen Harper’s image adviser, rides the government plane with the PM to major world and domestic events to ensure he looks just right.
She worked for years in television, eventually becoming head of makeup at the CBC in the 1990s.
Insiders reveal Harper is notoriously sensitive about receiving advice on his image, swiftly putting subordinates [...]