Hmmm.
This is interesting, CITS has produced four slick ads. They are similar to the parental control ads produced in the US bemoaning TV content.
That isn’t the most interesting part by far. Not even close.
CITS has had an interesting history which I’ll get to, but let’s follow this marketing.
What is interesting is the new ‘charity’ called [...]

Uganda’s Anti Gay bill was raised in the House of Commons Thursday. Xtra:
Bill Siksay asked about the Uganda issue coming up at the Commonwealth meeting.
Siksay: Mr. Speaker, Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill is reprehensible, vile and hateful. It violates human rights by imposing life in prison on gays and lesbians and a death sentence for those who [...]

The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that The Anglican Network of Canada does not have legal rights to the buildings and land they chose to leave.  The ruling affects four schismatic BC congregations, there are 35 groups of Anglicans across Canada who chose to leave The Anglican Church of Canada over same sex marriage [...]

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Todd Bentley’s November 17 webinar is proving to be part of a series. And something that he says in the taped version of his webinar on “the anointing”, as saved on his website is unnerving, if not scary.
I’ve listened to Bentley preach for years, and so his mixture [...]

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On November 17, last Tuesday as I write, evangelist Todd Bentley had another of his “webinars” on his website. This time, one about getting “the anointing” of the Holy Spirit.
You may have a look at the webinar yourself, as it is up on his website. But I [...]

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J. Lee Grady, well known as the editor of the main Charismatic magazine Charisma, has been interviewed on Christianity Today’s website today. The lengthy story goes into Grady’s efforts to give corrective words to some of the excesses in his wing of Christianity.
One example is his distate with [...]

Credit where credit is due.
The first of the month, questions were raised at this blog about the Asian stereo-types and misuse of characters being used in marketing a book called  Deadly Viper: A Kung Fu Survival Guide for Life and Leadership,, which had morphed into an online community and material for church study groups.
The issue [...]

The usual suspects of the US religious right came out with a manifesto today and on the face of it,  the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience looks like the usual screed against abortion and gays.
However, on careful reading, I don’t think it is just against the usual evangelical fundamentalist causes. In the tradition [...]