Archive for October, 2007



Someone phoned the other day and in the course of catching up asked why I had not mentioned the lawsuit filed against Oral Roberts University. I laughed and said I had posted it in passing, but that if it was going to play out the way it was looking to play out, there would be lots to [...]

138 Muslim leaders issued an open letter this week - A Common Word between Us and You.
If you paid attention to media over the years, there has been a lot of grumbling and complaining in the west about the silence of  Muslim leaders. They have spoken.
Well?
From Leaving Munster
Ekklesia
The Evangelical Alliance of the UK has responded.
The [...]

If what we do is ask the question, ‘How do we get big or even survive,’ I think we’ve lost our way,” he said. “For me, the real question is, ‘What does it mean to be faithful?’
The United Church of Canada is the largest protestant denomination in the country. Almost anywhere you drive in Canada you [...]

Let us pray for the life of the world, the intentions of all our community, and for any in sorrow or need.
We pray for the church everywhere on the earth, that the generosity and welcome of all God’s people might be our hope and our delight. Help us to mend all breaks and heal all [...]

One of the huge fights online between reform and ‘emergent’ church movements moves well beyond theological differences and gets to the core of what the social gospel looks like for 20 and 30 something Christians in the US.
Bill Kinnon has a good round up of a speech by a guy named Tim Keller who looks [...]

A group of Ryerson students are following how Canadian political parties are using the internet and what kind of results they are getting. The results are varied. Ottawa Citizen:
Ryerson University professor Greg Elmer leads a group of six graduate students in producing Infoscape, a study of how the political process is being affected by new [...]

Started by Ezra Levant in 2004, the magazine has been unable to meet costs as a print magazine. It went to print twice a week. 
The Western Standard is looking at continuing it’s on line presence, similar to political ideological cousins in the US such as Townhall. The Western Standard case with the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship [...]

Australian Idol is under fire amid allegations of vote-stacking by the Hillsong Church.
Four of the remaining eight contestants — hot favourite Matt Corby, Zimbabwe-born Tarasai Bushe, Daniel Mifsud and Ben Mackenzie — were revealed as members of the church by the Seven Network. The four all rank inside the top five in betting markets.
 9 MSN
Inside Australian [...]



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