The Q Contininuum is the name Quaker blogs have given themselves.
Via: A Silly Poor Gospel is a powerful Pastoral letter from Quakers in Kenya to the leaders of the country.
“We actively oppose all that leads to violence among people and nations, …. Refusal to fight with weapons is not surrender. We are not passive when [...]

Glen Penner over at Voice of the Martyrs Persecuted Church Weblog is not impressed with the premise of the new Rambo movie.
In the latest and most violent of his onscreen adventures, John Rambo, living in northern Thailand and running a longboat business on the Salween River, is approached by a group of Christian human rights [...]

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Toronto’s police force wants to spend 8. 6 million dollars to equip every officer with a Taser.
(Taser Inc., sponsors the Canadian Police Chiefs convention. Any bets on whether TO cops will get their wish?)
At the request of the Toronto Police Services Board the co-founder of Taser Inc. made his case for selling these weapons in [...]

This is excellent. Good for the UK. The British government decided language matters.
The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.
Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members [...]

U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins told CTV television Thursday that it was “offensive” his country was on any such torture list and it should be removed.
Stephen Harper and The New Conservatives wouldn’t want to offend you Mr. Wilkins.
Check.
So let the spin begin.
Canada’s ally and neighbour certainly has a government that has decided torture is acceptable.
We [...]

Another lawsuit has been filed agains the now closed private Grenville Christian College.
The suit, filed by former students as a class action, asks for $200-million in damages and seeks a so-called Mareva injunction to block the sale of the school and its 107-hectare property overlooking the St. Lawrence River. An earlier class-action suit was filed [...]