Sorry for the down time here at BDBO – we ran into a bit of server payment mix up. I was going to let BDBO go, but here we are, and Rick and I are going to keep at it for another year. My gratitude to cre8d-design, Rachel and Regan
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Bene Diction Blogs On: Infamous Family Radio founder Harold Camping dies
The end for a doomsday prophet came quietly this past weekend. Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, and a man who made international news with his false predictions on the return of Christ, died Sunday. The 92 year old is survived by his wife and children. Religion News Service:
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: West Jet Christmas video
“WestJet said that if the video attracts 200,000 views, the company would give away holiday flights to needy families.” – Market Watch
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Mark Driscoll plagiarism debate twists and turns
I got an email from a reader today with the comment that this is usually something I’m on top of. BREAKING: Janet Mefferd Removes Tweets and Blog Material Regarding Mark Driscoll and Alleged Plagiarism He is correct, often I am on top of stories such as the above that explode
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Paul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, dead at 79
The founder of the worlds largest Christian cable network, Paul Crouch died today in California. LA Times: The son of a Missouri missionary, Crouch moved to California in the early 1960s to manage the movie and television unit of the Assemblies of God. A decade later, after receiving what he
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rob Ford Opera
(CBC Radio’s Day 6 recorded this Rob Ford aria, arranged and written by Topher Mokrzewski, resident conductor with the Calgary Opera. Alex Beley and Tyler Fitzgerald sing as the Ford Nation Chorus)
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Conference circuit time for celebrity Calvinists – Act Like Men
US pastor Mark Driscoll was in Hamilton for the neo-Calvinist Act Like Men conference this weekend. According to one participating US celebrity pastor, Act Like Men Canada drew about 8 thousand male fans. While continuing to promote his events, Driscoll has wondered in 2008 if some of the men who
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Grimsby youth minister charged with sexual assault and exortion
“The arrest and charges against this former employee are being treated with the utmost seriousness and concern. And its urging anyone with information related to these charges to go to police. Lakemount has and will continue to cooperate fully with police and local authorities during the investigation of this matter. As this
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Pat Robertson not happy about Mission Congo debut at Toronto Film Festival
A documentary which debuted at tiff Friday night is getting a lot of buzz. Televangelist, multi-millionaire, and leader of the religious right, Pat Robertson is a man on a mission. During an escalating refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Robertson took to the airwaves of the Christian Broadcasting
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Crossroads Christian Communications top management shake up, CEO Don Simmonds steps down
I have not had the opportunity to second source this information – I am in the process of doing so, it’s late night in Ontario, so I don’t expect any responses until tomorrow. The standard press releases aren’t up as yet at Crossroads or EQUIP. Don Simmonds has stepped
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: DayStar TV muscles into Canada through Grace TV
If you tune into Peter Youngrens Grace TV from now to September 2nd, you will be regaled with Marcus and Joni Lambs Daystar fundraiser. Daystar is an aggressive US religious broadcaster out of Dallas Texas. In June Youngren made a deal with Lambs broadcasting company – 65% of Grace TV
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: US worship leader in Milton jail, can’t make bail or pay a lawyer
How can a former Saddleback worship leader sit in an Ontario jail with no money, no defence attorney and no one from churches he works for, or worked for in California stepping up and helping him out? Why aren’t people from the churches he was coming to visit here in
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: British evangelist Tony Anthony closes ministry after investigation finds most of his story is false
Tony Anthony I’m curious as to why Canada’s 100 Huntley Street has kept an interview with a thoroughly discredited British evangelist. In July a respected 3 man panel with the Evangelical Alliance released a statement about their findings regarding British ‘evangelist’ Tony Anthony’s claims in his autobiography Taming the Tiger.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Newsweek bought by IBT Media, company with relationship to controversial Korean pastor David Jang
The sale of Newsweek to IBT Media, announced Saturday is generating some interest in media and evangelical circles. Christianity Today published an investigative series last year, The Second Coming Christ Controversy, tying a shadowy and controversial Korean pastor named David Jang to the owners of IBT Media, Olivet University in
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A Public Statement Concerning Sexual Abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ – G.R.A.C.E.
G.R.A.C.E. (Godly response to abuse in the Christian Environment) Recent allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up within a well known international ministry and subsequent public statements by several evangelical leaders have angered and distressed many, both inside and outside of the Church. These events expose the troubling reality that, far too
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Young raven asks for human help
Gertie Cleary compared the experience to a child with a splinter. “[W]hen you pull a splinter out, they holler and screech and pull their hand away,” she told CTV News. The young raven fledgling who visited Cleary’s Nova Scotia home last month had just borne the brunt of a porcupine
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: PMO received complaints about Crossroads Christian Communications
Canadian Press: The Prime Minister’s Office and the office of the international development minister got about 170 letters and emails after The Canadian Press reported earlier this year on the $544,813 contract to Christian Crossroads Communications for humanitarian work in Uganda. The criticism of homosexuality on the organization’s website raised
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Maclean’s article on Wendy Gritter and New Direction: Quietly head of the curve
Maclean’s Magazine has an article about Wendy Gritter and New Direction: Quietly ahead of the curve Gritter was optimistic when she started ministering at New Direction. She attended an Exodus International conference in the ’90s and found the testimonies of alleged ex-gays quite moving. But her optimism soon wavered when
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Exodus International shuts down, leaders to start new organization
Tonight Canadians will have the opportunity to watch a show on OWN that has caused a lot of buzz south of the border. As important as the content of the show is to GLBT, ex-gay and church and para-church groups in the US, what has happened since the show aired
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