Aled Jones - Be Still for the Presence of the Lord

Day 5
Rain.
Day 6
So I was loading up the last of the animals last week when I walk past my neighbor Roger, the Molech-worshipper. He looks up and says “Hey, looks like rain.”
True story.
Day 7
Now wondering if it was wrong to have borrowed Roger’s hedge clippers.
Day 15
It’s been the same every day for the last two [...]

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World Vision has an outstanding record of helping children, their families and quick on the ground assistance in natural disasters. They use a model of training workers in the countries they serve. This is an agency whose overhead and advertising budget is outstanding.
Here is the page of their Canadian financial statements.
How your money is distributed [...]

After Roger’s emails regarding his Lakeland experience was posted at BDBO I was contacted by Philip L. Powell of Christian Witness Org in Australia.
I like Philip Powell, have concerns.
1) We need someone with the resources to verify Roger is the Roger in the video face to face.
2) We need someone with the resources to meet [...]

When police departments investigate their own misconduct investigations this is the result.
I think it is important investigative boards include civilians.
The case that ignited international debate and led to a number of probes into the use of stun guns by police forces, including an inquiry called by the B.C. government, an internal investigation by the RCMP [...]

The Galloping Beaver has a post on the protocols of the Order of Canada., fisking a recent article by Andrew Coyne. You can’t ‘give’ the order back you can give the snowflake back, and you can’t give back the snowflake of someone who has died.
So far, none of the Catholics who have told media they [...]

This didn’t end well.
A woman who worked for Flowers 1-800 has been fired after a death threat directed at an outspoken biology professor over this post was sent from her computer.
Background - a University of Florida study council member upset with the money being given out by the council to fund religious groups [...]