stage left has come up with a fun game called Ficki. Bloggers and readers are having a ball, it’s some Friday merriment as completely fictional stories are being written about people participating in Canadian blogging. Who are we? Completely and creatively made up.:^) Go Ficki.
IMonk (Michael Spencer) finally got his 15 minutes of fame when The Christian Science Monitor picked up the theme of his three part series on The Coming Evangelical Collapse. Mark Galli at Christianity Today’s Out of UR, GetReligion and Pastor Dan at Street Prophets respond. There are stats to bear out some of what Michael has said, it’s an interesting read.
Recently well known pentecostal preacher David Wilkerson got picked up by Drudge for sending out an Urgent bulletin to his readers and followers regarding a prophecy about fire on the east coast. What is interesting is not that a WND writer ran with a Wilkerson story, but that WND issued a correction. Apparently there is an urban myth Wilkerson’s Times Square Church felt led to make peanut butter sandwiches just prior to 9/11. Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion has some fun with debunking the WND gaffe. Wilkerson is actually a fairly sensible holiness pentecostal who has written a lot of books and has a peculiar tendency to push end of the world statements popular with the holiness movement and most often uses fire imagery.
David Aikens covered the Preston Manning Centre for Democracy conservative shindig and has a sensible piece up on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s surprise speech.
To kick off a three-day conference of The Manning Centre for Democracy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a remarkable — and unannounced — defence of small-c conservatism. It was remarkable, in my eyes, for its candour — we rarely get to hear him talk politics in this way nowadays — and its frank assessment of the mistakes that got us to where we are:
LT at The Heresy has a public speech by Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practises. Orlov isn’t a public speaker, he’s a thinker and I nearly clicked him off. I’m glad I didn’t, he straddles two worlds, thinks clearly, offers solutions and has a dark wit. Worth your time.
via: Bill Kinnon – Willie Smit speaking at TED (very quickly) about his Lovers of the Jungle project on bio-diversity and stewardship in one of the worst parts of deforested Borneo. Amazing. He started off just wanting to rescue orangutans and his work evolved into a world leading environmental sustainability project.
Oh wow. I am a big fan of Ship-of-Fools. Big fan. I discovered a link back to BDBO in a Ship-of-Fools forum where readers are discussing the Lakeland/Todd Bentley events. I didn’t think I’d be impressed any more about ‘who’ links to BDBO after so many years of blogging, but I was wrong.  Yeah, I’m happily impressed.  I admit it’s a hoot and a treat to have such a great group and site notice BDBO. :^)
