WND buried the lead. Well, writer Bob Unruh not only buried the lead,  he missed the point. A pentecostal family counter-cult ministry, MacGregor Ministries is setting up shop in the US under a new name because the MacGregor’s didn’t want to meet Canadian registered charity  tax exemption requirements. Lorri MacGregor:
We wrote on Feb. 7 and voluntarily revoked our [license] ourselves,” [...]

Beannacht
from Echoes of Memory 

On the day when
the weight deadens                         
on your shoulders
and you stumble,                      
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain [...]

Creationists in the US have put together a movie-documentary in the US called Expelled, which is to open sometime in April.  In the meantime a rough cut is being screened around the country.
Dr. PZ Meyers, a professor in the US went with his family and a guest to see a screening and was asked to leave. [...]

Hai! Teh blessigs of teh Ceiling Cat b pwn u, lol!
(from the LOLCat bible wiki) 
Can you quote a bible verse?
How about John 3:16 from the King James Version?
For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Or a modern translation such [...]

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have set up a blog to discuss Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the US April 15-20th.
USCCB’s Papal Visit Blog

Paul Gibson at The Anglican Church of Canada
In our own Canadian Province some Anglicans have withdrawn from communion with the mainline church and attached themselves to a more congenial Province elsewhere. But still many of our leaders seem to warn that certain actions in the Canadian and American provinces will cause disunity, as if one [...]

Hillsong, the largest pentecostal church in Australia is in the centre of a breaking controversy regarding one of it’s partnered ministries.
The Sydney Morning Herald has been doing an series on Mercy Ministries,  a free faith based treatment centre from the US  for addiction, eating disorders, unplanned pregnancy, self-harm and depression, catering to women from 16 to [...]

Dean Baker looks at the Bears Stearn bailout versus Northern Rock.
There are two points about this bailout that should be clear. First, this is a bailout - we are handing money to Bear Stearns. Second, we don’t have to hand tens of billions of dollars to the country’s richest people to save the financial system.
The [...]