ar arr arrr!
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams was asked about a Christmas card on BBC radio. The myth stuff; you know, wise men, shepherds, manger, the star, snow on the ground sorts of things, and he did what thousands of ministers and priest do. Separated myths from history.
Basically it’s a seasonal air time filler sort of [...]

 ”In the spirit of (holiday) Eid al Adh-ha and Christmas, Imam Syed Soharwardy has decided to withdraw his complaint from the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Commission in Ottawa,” the group stated in a press release.
The complaints lodged by the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada against the Western Standard [...]

Jim Coggins at Canadian Christianity has started a series: The State of the Canadian Church.
I don’t know how long the series is going to be, or where he is taking it, so far there are no surprises.
In Part One he asks the questions. Is Canada a nation of believers? Is church attendance in decline? He [...]

And it isn’t even winter yet. I don’t plan to be standing under that when it slids off.
 

Richard Bott of looking back…looking forward made Macleans magazine.
Doing what he does so well. Mediating. Making hard decisions. Explaining.  
Pastoring the pastor.  Richard is very good at giving people enough rope to hang themselves. And he is the first to embrace and comfort them when they do.
So this had to be a decidedly fractious bunch.
A United Church in [...]

Only once?
Hello.  50 thousand volts. Once. Twice. Eight times. 
50 thousand volts.  8X50 = 400,000 volts.  
Going through a human being.
Without warning, one officer fired a Taser into the back of his head which made him drop to his knees, he said. A second shock caused him to fall on his face, breaking a front tooth. A further six shocks made [...]

The Canadian Blog Awards are growing up.
From 2004 - 2006 a tremendous amount of effort was put into recognition of Canadian blogs by one guy - Robert McClelland of MyBlahg. Now in best Canuck fashion, a bi-partisan board of bloggers have picked up what Robert began and worked so hard on.
The Canadian Blog Awards is an annual event [...]

Most readers at BDBO have never heard of Hugh Hewitt and would have no idea why he thinks our neighbours to the south shouldn’t visit Canada.
(Our neighbours to the south aren’t coming to Canada like they used to - with the Canadian dollar at par or near par, it’s no longer a cheap vacation get-a-way)
Hugh [...]