Companies paying bloggers to push their products is nothing new. It’s an online concern which has drawn the attention of The Federal Trade Commission.
Commenters are paid to search and go to blogs and websites where they pitch a product by making personal comments. There are bots which search by keyword and drop what look like personalized comments into comment [...]

Last year during the Lakeland ‘revival’ hype a clarion voice with quick wit, solid knowledge of the bible and a low tolerance for the lies and falseness of Todd Bentley, the Straders and New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leaders started putting up hard hitting videos on You Tube.
He had a decent eye, his videos were an effective way [...]

This has not been a good week personally.
Upside: The weather has been terrific and the call of the outdoors has been irresistible.
I have to be outside, it pulls me, which means the computer gets ignored and things pile up. (it’s easier to blog when its winter  and the wind chill is hitting -30C)
Family illness and obligations [...]

Why report?
Over the next few weeks ChristianWeek will conduct its own interviews and explore the situation further. Why do we consider it important for the Christian community to know more about a ministry when it’s experiencing difficulties?
One major reason in this case is the high profile nature of 100 Huntley Street, which bills itself as [...]

Last time I was in the US I wandered into a Thomas Kinkade gallery.  It was upscale, someone’s idea of colonial tasteful,  and empty, no customers were wandering around. I’m not a fan, but The Guardian said in 2006 that 1 in 20 US homeowners are. He has been marketed and markets himself as an evangelical. 
All I could think gazing around [...]

Post taken down at request of the newsletter author.
I received an email from the author of the newsletter, quotes of which were posted here. He was polite, quoted his newsletter disclaimer and asked me to take this interview down. If I didn’t of course his lawyer would be given the opportunity to ask me to do so. This [...]

This morning, despite the concerns of many Christians who looked askance at the collapse of Mr. Bentley’s Florida revival and his marriage, Mr. Bentley announced the launching of his new website. It has print and video teachings, an internet store and a page where you can ask him to minister at your church. So, he’s back on [...]

Awhile ago I posted about a conservative evangelical para-church ministry in Canada which decided to break ties with Focus on the Family’s Exodus International - the ex-gay money making machine for politicalized religious fundamentalists in the US and increasingly around the world.
For it’s decision, the group’s director was passively aggressively trashed in a US charismatic magazine article by [...]