Archive for November, 2007



Of course I could be wrong

Quick.
What does the word ‘interfaith’ mean?
To a Texas Baptist mega-church it means cancelling a Thanksgiving dinner because Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, athiests - people who planned to celebrate an interfaith Thanksgiving meal on their property.  
The interfaith Thankgiving meal has been held around Austin for 23 years.   Hyde Park Baptist Church of the Southern Baptist Convention originally accepted the booking of the event [...]

A BC mountie who is suing Taser International certainly can’t be accused of having ‘ excited delerium’. 
The officer was a constable in Revelstoke in February, 2004, when he agreed to be exposed to the electrical discharge from a Taser device as part of an RCMP user certification course.
That had to hurt. As a matter of fact, [...]

The Anglican Network of Canada, which wishes to split from the Anglican Church of Canada is holding it’s conference this week to lay out it’s plans to help congregations who no longer want to be part of the world wide communion.
The ACC is upset with same-sex blessings and consider themselves  truly orthodox. Canadian Anglican dissidents lead by [...]

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother’s wife and fathered a child by her.
Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk’s family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester [...]

An orphanage in the Philippines run by the SBC had this to say to a US couple seeking to adopt their second child:
And then we received a letter from the Philippines via our agency in Massachusetts, where we live. The orphanage, which is run by Southern Baptist missionaries from a church in El Paso, Texas, wanted [...]

Millions of people around the world watched Robert Dziekanski die at The Vancouver International Airport. 
The footage is so shocking it has been removed by YouTube.
It can be seen at The CBC.
Warning. It is extremely disturbing.
Mr. Dziekanski died October 14, 2007.  The footage was released back to witness Paul Pritchard after he got a lawyer. On November 14, [...]

Canadian Cynic does snark.
Very well I might add, a Canadian Jesus General. 
I can’t comment there, for some reason my sign in for blogger/Google works when it feels like it. Which is almost always never. Good thing, I might have just tried to leave a comment and neglected to share this tidbit.
I was unaware the Canadian Christian Booksellers Association had gone belly [...]



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