Archive for August, 2007



Credit where credit is due.
A couple of days ago I noticed WorldMag blog had a post up about the Sinclair family/Arlington High Point Church. I’d been following coverage around online, interested in how writers handled their opinion pieces. In parts of the US the story of the Sinclair’s and the church has been primarily political [...]

CBC’s Fifth Estate has covered religious stories before, this week they re-visit their expose on Benny Hinn.
I was nauseated.
The second time it came on I had to turn it off.
Hinn was raised in Canada, was in Toronto and Calgary for some shows (The Toronto Star used that term and I think it’s appropriate) last week.
While [...]

Asked by reporters about the protest, Harper said: “I’ve heard it’s nothing. A couple hundred? It’s sad.”
Stephen Harper at the Montebello summit today.
Hello.
I don’t think a couple of hundred visible protesters is sad at all.
While members of the RCMP, OPP and Surette had to spend a week away from their families, they were paid, and [...]

My name is Tristan Emmanuel and I find it particularly distasteful that you would talk about your commitment to Jesus Christ - referring to your “about page” – but then turn around and falsely accuse both WND and myself of misrepresenting the FD CHRC investigation.
First, I do not refer to the FD investigation as a [...]

Rows or columns?

Dave Walker, a splendid cartoonist and all around good guy, isn’t feeling well. He thinks he is being a bit of a hypochondriac, which keeps him awake, which causes insomnia, which adds to sleep deprivation raises anxiety.
He’s joking about it, the symptoms are real.
Doctors aren’t paying attention.
He needs a doctor that will pay attention.
Pop over and [...]

Wiley Drake, one of the more colourful members of the Southern Baptist Convention is upset with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
He endorsed a political candidate using church letterhead, and when the organization filed a complaint with the IRS, he issued a press release calling for cursing prayers against two of employees [...]

Researchers have developed a scanner that tells them who edits Wikipedia.
Employees at the CIA, the Democratic Party, the Vatican…



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