Archive for January, 2008



Wow.
The federal government late Tuesday night fired Linda Keen as president of the embattled Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
In a brief statement before midnight, commission spokesman Aurele Gervais said Keen “has been terminated” as commission president.
Keen’s dismissal as president - she is expected to continue sitting as a commissioner - follows a month of increasingly bitter [...]

A British blogger who supports The British National Party persuasion caught the attention of American bloggers when he claimed he was going to be arrested for his views. Several sprang to his defense.
The support for him was astonishingly poorly researched.
Richard Bartholomew of Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion has been following the initial support of Lionheart and as the [...]

I was raised by fundamentalist missionary parents. My life has been one of all-consuming faith, not my faith, but the faith of others that I seem to have caught like a disease. What does God want? I’m still trying to find out. And having once been a famous “professional Christian” myself (until I cut and [...]

Voting in the 27 categories of the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards is now open.
As I’ve previously stated, it’s an opportunity for blog readers to find some good blogs. 
I also said this:
This year - no false modesty - no getting distracted and sidetracked. 
I plan to encourage, plead, cajole and nag you to vote for BDBO. I hate clutter on the sidebar, but truth [...]

CaNN is an Anglican website that has been around since 2003. Last year they disappeared, then reappeared in a diminished format (it was one of the first go-to places for Anglican News)  The story of the site’s hack (by a fellow Anglican) and the subsequent server hack here:
So long and thanks for all the fish: An Anglican website opens [...]

Free Dominion has sold it’s rights to a Panama company.
The seven year old website, which was hosted in the US is now under ownership of an offshore company.
Conn Esq Web Design was originally intended to be a corporation offering internet design and programming services, holding Free Dominion as an example of its production. But in the past [...]

In Part V of The State of the Canadian Church at Canadian Christianity, Jim Coggins looks at attempts of  Canadian evangelicals to be noticed more by Statistics Canada, academics, and I assume by extension government funding.
He looks at a couple of new ventures that will attempt to pull together statistics and research for church planters.
Rick Hiemstra [...]

There is a book making the rounds of evangelical blogs called Pagan Christianity?  Written by Frank Viola and George Barna (a religious pollster) it’s a critique of western church tradition.
Darryl Dash links up to a few blogger reviews.
My personal favorite is Brent Hanson’s I Can’t Believe This Book is Getting Published (by a big-time publisher)
The book [...]



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