Tonight on Global ’s Cross Currents - Cure for Love.
Good interview with Alberta based writer-film maker Christina Willings at NFB. (Cure for Love is co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada)
The level of engagement that some Christian communities are taking with their gay members is suprising. What were the roots of Christian ex-gay organizations like Exodus [...]

In a few weeks a blogger is releasing a book titled Schizophrenic Christianity. Already the predictable is occurring in online independent fundamentalist baptist circles; ‘verdict by degree, not verdict from conclusion.’
Jerri Massi spend 17 years  in US independent fundamentalist baptist circles and left in the early 1990’s. She began to track misconduct and sexual abuse, taking her concerns online at Blog on [...]

Lifesite and World Net Daily are reporting that Focus on the Family broadcasts are screened for compliance with Canadian law before they are broadcast here.
Boo hoo. I don’t know how many people actually listen to Fotf, they are seen as a political US activist group with offshoots and some of their rhetoric does not stand [...]

A nine-months pregnant teenager has been placed behind bars in a Toronto-area jail to ensure she testifies against her boyfriend after lodging a domestic violence complaint against him. Noelly Mowatt, 19, doesn’t face any criminal charges but for nearly a week she’s been held at the Women’s Centre in Milton, a provincial jail near Toronto.
A judge ordered her [...]

I was heading to bed and noticed search traffic picking up around information on the FLDS Texas YFZ Ranch.
183 women and children were taken from the 1,691 acre ranch on Friday, authorities have not left the property in Schleicher County.
Over a thousand media outlets are covering or picking up the story of law enforcement and child services removing women and [...]

Crosses began appearing on the lawn of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. No one knows who started it, whose idea it was.  It’s okay with the President, Theodore Wardlaw. He wrote an email to the seminary community.
…Yesterday on this campus, we all began to notice what I believe is another “Holy Spirit thing” which cropped up as [...]

Canada’s World, a citizen-led initiative inspiring conversations on Canada’s role in the world, is looking for some savvy political geek/hipster types who understand blogging culture and are eager to write about different aspects of Canada’s role in the world. As a member of our group blog, you’ll receive the following:
→  Money – We’ll be paying [...]

Saskachewan MP Tom Lukiwski stood in the House of Commons today and apologized for his anti-gay remarks. He looked shocked and humiliated.  It’s up to him and The Conservative Party about whether he continues as parlimentary secretary.
He first apologized to his gay and lesbian friends and colleagues for the remarks, in which he calls homosexuals “faggots with [...]