Archive for February, 2008



Kathryn Joyce is a clear writer.   That talent of deliberate clarity is well reflected in her latest piece: Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies.
The American Christian right, increasingly seeking influence abroad, has recognized that this anxiety over shifting national identities creates fertile terrain for spreading its ideology of traditional sexual morality as a quick fix for a postmodern age.
She weaves in past history with [...]

Rachel Cunliffe has a post on online communities and change.
Meanwhile, in an online community I help run, we made a number of changes about a month ago after much thought and research.
One was adding a new feature to vote up or down others’ comments in a forum.
Another was moving the forum options sidebar from the [...]

Mark Byron woke up yesterday to an intruder in his home.
One of the things common in the blogosphere is the computer chair testosterone braggards that pile in to comment sections to boast about how tough they are and what they’d do to so and so in such a such a situation. They are the norm in the faith blogosphere. Until we’ve [...]

BD. 2008
 Winter is on my head,  but eternal spring is in my heart.  -  Victor Hugo  
 Out of the south  comes the storm, And out of the north the cold.  -  Job 37:9

A Manitoba minister/counsellor has been found guilty of sexual assault.
60 year old Terrance Lewis, was apparently a friend of the family of the victim.  
The victim  was sent by his parents for counselling to Lewis after they found him viewing gay pr0n on the family computer.
The counselling sessions began in 2000 according to the victim to ’assist me to [...]

I linked to a a powerful article on the lack of leadership regarding rape and sexual abuse in The Southern Baptist Convention a few days ago. 
The article starts with the graphic story of  Debbie who was raped by her minister when she was a young teen. When she got conceived she was  made to go in front of the [...]

A few weeks ago a friend told me a story of a city volunteer board with important work to do that had reached a serious stage of paralysis and disarray because of the chair persons leadership. Committee members were wounded, demoralized and unable to move forward.
The city called in a psychologist.
The psychologist met with the [...]

To coincide with The General Synod, ‘the other side’ of the homosexuality debate has been released by conservatives in The Anglican Church to  redress ‘ the imbalance of the listening process. God, Gays and the Church.

There is an excellent breakdown of the theories and writers at Ex-Gay Watch by a UK writer in the know. 
Some [...]



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