Ethics Daily reports on The Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page and some of the chats he has had with GOP presidental candidates.
Frank Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., recently told a group of ministers in Oklahoma the biggest surprise of his 16 months leading the nation’s largest Protestant body is the [...]

The Prosperity Gospel is a deep sickness and parasite in Christian culture and it’s popularity in the US  is rapidly being exported to other countries.
Good article on beleaguered ORU president Richard Roberts first wife, Patti Roberts Thompson who blew the whistle on excess nearly 30 years ago and the seeking of national influence by Texan John Hagee at Talk2Action. 
Information on ORU plaintiff Tim Brooker [...]

Given Canadian airways will be co-opted by the opening of Parliament in less than 1/2 hour, the news the 16 page throne speech allegedly being leaked is no surprise.

it’s not possible for the government to meet Canada’s commitments under the Kyoto climate-change accord, but it will bring in measures to fight greenhouse gases.
Tackling Violent Crime [...]

Recently the international police agency Interpol made news when it released unscrambled video of a suspected pedophile.
The unscrambling technology technicans were able to utilize made news around the world. Police have been attempting to identify and find him for three years and Interpol made the unprecedented move of going public with their information. He went under another [...]

I get a fair amount of religious spam in comments and emails and it all comes from the US. It may be partly my fault, I’ve wondered if complaining to Lifeway (the publishing arm of the SBC) got me stuck on lists.
That having been said I’ve been getting a rather funny comment spam that is polite [...]

Stephen Colbert writes Maureen Dowd’s column at the New York Times.
Surprised to see my byline here, aren’t you? I would be too, if I read The New York Times. But I don’t. So I’ll just have to take your word that this was published. Frankly, I prefer emoticons to the written word, and if you [...]

I found this interesting article at the Tyee that reflects my own experience. Long before I started blogging I was obtaining my news sources through the blogs I was reading everyday. I found blogger communities with similar ideas, perspectives, values and beliefs and then trusted their judgment on the choice of content they linked.
I certainly [...]

Be it resolved that this Synod requests that the Bishop grant permission for clergy, whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples, where one party is baptized; and that he authorizes an appropriate rite and guidelines for its use in supportive parishes.
Clergy and lay people passed the motion in [...]