A New Jersey high school student launched a federal lawsuit saying he isn’t being permitted to hold a Day of Truth.
Day of Truth is an initiative of The Alliance Defense Fund to counter The Day of Silence.
“The problem is that the district has continued to put roadblocks in front of the Christian viewpoint on subjects [...]

45 police officers (numbers of police reported vary from 45 to 100+) blocked the homeschool college when SoulForce Equality Ride showed up. The 12th Equality Ride East stop was covered by The Washington Post and other media outlets.
And Newsbusters, marvelling the ‘gay-left group’ got front page coverage.
Newsbusters:
Yesterday it was Patrick Henry College, a seven-year-old evangelical institution in Purcellville, Va., with grand [...]

From The Guardian:
A few years ago the Church of England produced a report called Mission-Shaped Church. It excitedly announced that new things were happening on the fringes of the institutional church: Christians hanging out in cafes, organising alternative services on weekday evenings, that sort of thing. These things are known as “fresh expressions” of church, or [...]

Human error led to embattled Mississauga-based Menu Foods using contaminated ingredients in 28 varieties of pet foods recalled this week, a vice-president of the company says.
“It was due to a clerical error in the shipment of that product that was shipped here,” Randall Copeland, executive vice-president of sales and marketing, said yesterday.
Copeland said the company [...]

Colby Cosh has one of the better takes on the announcement by Elizabeth May and Stephane Dion regarding the decision not to run a liberal candidate in the riding of Central Nova.
Andrew Coyne does also, speculating this may be more about a move against the NDP who were approached by May about a month ago. [...]

A few minutes on the intertubes and “Fue de Paille” by Paul Wells
DallasNews Religion has an interesting article on two well known Southern Baptist bloggers, Wade Burleson and Ben Cole, attempting to get resolutions on clergy sexual abuse resolutions introduced into the Southern Baptist June convention.
The International Red Cross has a sobering report (.pdf) on the [...]

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are [...]

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. 
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns [...]