Monthly Archives: June 2007

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 … Continue reading →

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: … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →