Archive for August, 2008



This is sloppy.
In April of this year an organization which provides care for the disabled in Ontario lost a Human Rights employment tribunal case.
Background here.
Fast forward to Catholic Insight Magazine which had a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission dropped in July of this year.
background here
They decided to write about Christian Horizons decision to [...]

For US readers who are trying to figure out who Sarah Palin is, who better to go to than local media and local bloggers?
The picture is from Mudflats; a blog of a writer who loves his state and is a close observer of politics. It’s a sharp blog with lots of background.
In his post Local [...]

This is an interesting place to find a comprehensive article on neo-pentecostalism.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre takes a look at the dominionist movement’s politicized youth wing which mixes it’s brand of end time theology with patriotism and militarism.
I take the point made that the key concerns and warnings about this gnostic cult of pentecostalism has [...]

For US evangelicals from Joe Carter of the Evangelical Outpost;
I’m the managing editor of Culture11 (www.culture11.com), a new online magazine/social network that was started by Bill Bennett, David Kuo, Steve Forbes, et al. Today is our first day and rather than trying to get attention using traditional media, we’ve decided to announce our launch by [...]

9 things which make a good blog. A lot of the points have to do with content and style.
So, what do you think makes a good blog?
via: Jordon Cooper

Sarah Pulliam is covering the Democratic Convention for Christianity Today. I’m wondering what religious right grous suggested it’s followers troll the comments section of CT’s poltics blog.

The phone/DSL line is mostly working, until a few more things are done I’m not going to know for certain whether the electrician has more work to do on the line.   I’m picking up the modem for the new ISP over the next day or so, and then will get hold of the tech [...]

Last week a diverse group of bloggers asked traditional media (Globe and Mail in particular) to fact check information they received from special interest groups. The National Post was on the list, but Kirk Makin in particular for uncritically putting up remarks by The Canada Family Action Coalition without asking basic questions.
The Star, which had [...]



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