A North Carolina Church knew the SBC would rule they were no longer in friendly co-operation.  It’s a nice way of saying ‘we don’t need your kind round here.’
Myers Park Baptist Church’s sin? 
They affirm GLBT - (welcome them)
This letter from the minister of the church is really something.
Senior Minister Rev. Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker
Myers Park Baptist Church 
November [...]

17 Canadians have died from being tasered by police.
The latest death, October 14th was caught on video by a bystander at the Vancouver airport. He had to go public to get the footage back from the RCMP.
The story of the death of Robert Dziekanski  and his final minutes at CTV.
The video of his death is very disturbing.
Upate: Dr. Dawg [...]

Western University law professor Dr. David Johnston has received his Terms of Reference for the Mulroney/Schreiber affair. CTV Politics Blog has it.

The embattled president of Oral Roberts University asked for a second chance during an emergency meeting with the same faculty members who only days earlier gave him a vote of no confidence.
Richard Roberts told professors Wednesday that if he stepped down now, the public would think he was admitting to wrongdoing, said Donald Vance, a [...]

There has been an explosion at the Philippine House of Representatives in  Manila. Several people have been injured.
Perhaps Ganns can keep us updated locally.  Ganns doesn’t often blog about politics, when he does he knows his subject well.

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University has a new book out called The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, 2007).
The book has a blog/website with a theology and a hero in waiting section.
Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and [...]

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney wants the federal government to drop an independent review of allegations he faces and proceed immediately to a full-blown public inquiry into the matter.
Mulroney said an inquiry is the only way the issue which has dogged him for years will ever be put to rest.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday that [...]

I have a question for my US friends.
James Holsinger is the nominee on hold for Surgeon General. George Bush nominated him in May, Holsinger appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in July. He is a controversial nominee. 
But Holsinger is telling people the president plans to appoint him to the post anyway once the Congress [...]