Exodus International, a reparative therapy business run by the para-church organization Focus on the Family have spoken up about a conference that is occurring during one of their conferences in California about a mile away during the same time period. 
The words in this Citizen’s Link piece are important. ‘activists, co-sponsored, counter-conference, claim they were, overcome.’
Just a mile down the road, gay [...]

John Stackhouse unpacks the nonsense of the ‘creation verus evolution’ debate.  With all the noise about it many people are unaware that evangelicals might not be anti-science.
There are only two respects, then, in which “creation versus evolution” makes sense: first, when certain Christians insist that “creation” must mean “creation science” and thus rule out any [...]

One of the most read posts here at BDBO is about Purity Balls, a more extreme form of abstinence only events targeting religious parents and children in the US.
Companies and entreprenuers have been expanded their programs to other countries.  
A 16 year old in the UK is taking her school to court because she can’t wear her Purity [...]

Fred Hiltz, the bishop for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, won on the fifth ballot at the church’s General Synod, a meeting of Anglican leaders being held in Winnipeg.
Hiltz eked out the win over Victoria Matthews, an Edmonton bishop who would otherwise have become the church’s first female leader. CBC
Saturday, the Canadians  will vote [...]

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows will be out in July. Author J.K. Rowling has stated two characters will die. The security around Rowlings books is massive, especially after a fork lift operator stole pages of the fifth book in 2003 (Order of the Phoenix) and tried to sell them to a tabloid. Now a [...]

Greg Weston - Toronto Sun
Recently at the Mosport raceway near Toronto, a great honkin’ Dodge stock car with a cool blue Conservative party logo on the hood took Canadian taxpayers for a little ride.
In an apparent attempt to woo the speedway crowd, Stephen Harper’s party of fiscal prudence is paying an undisclosed amount to [...]

Do you ever get the feeling when reading blogs that we talk past each other?
On Monday The Hill Times reporter Abbas Rana wrote up a nearly thousand word article on Bruce Sutherland. The article: “Meet the man behind Grit MP popular MPtv webcast”. has a sub header which reads: “Garth Turner says his webcast is [...]

Long and Winding Road is a blog by a foster mom.
It seems like Little Boy Blue is getting more and more comfortable with us and our ways. He arrived with a great deal of stiffness and rigidity in his body. This is very common for babies who were exposed to drugs in utero (more on [...]