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By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Sneeze and you would miss it. But this sentence clause demands special attention by descerning Christians. As I mentioned in my last post, Todd Bentley, as part of his big attempt to apologize on GOD TV back in January, was explaining

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Following his series of meetings in South Africa–which went from a fairgounds, and then down into presumably smaller churches, Todd Bentley went on vacation for this past summer. Recently, he announced that he would be returning to ministry with some meetings

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

April Reign Gizmodo has an article on designs that differ from the usual burial experience. Some are wonderful, the wind chime I’m not as sure about. April Reign – In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

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

I like Tim Hortons, it is a part of the landscape of my life, and apart from the occasional less than perfect coffee, I have few complaints. Until today. The Tim Hortons Fathers Day promotion was well advertised, and was promising to be quite the deal. Starting at 2 pm

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Apologies to my readers, as a grinding schedule at work has kept me busy. But, that said, I have some “stop press” type items to pass on. 1) Faytene Grasseschi’s big pro-life march on Ottawa appears to have finished–at least her

Every time I think Southern Baptist leaders can’t mess up any more than they already are, they do. Amy Smith is a courageous woman, who attends an SBC church and who is also the Houston director of S.N.A.P. For years she has been pointing out how SBC churches neglect their

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor [oppressed] than to divide the spoil with the proud. A powerful response to neo-reform leaders in the US, who prefer to stand with CJ Mahaney of Sovereign Grace ministries, than to fulfil their calling. When shepherds refuse or

By Rick Hiebert. All rights reserved. Used by permissio. This is something that BDBO readers already know, but Douglas Todd of The Vancouver Sun reminds us of something interesting on his blog. He’s reporting on the Bridging the Secular Divide: Religion and Public Discourse conference at McGill University earlier this

The assistant pastor of a Washington state church which has been called a cult, was found guilty today of sex crimes against a child, after a two month trial. 40 year old Malcolm John Fraser is also the Development Officer at WinePress Publishing, a business connected with Sound Doctrine Church.

By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Last week, what we could defined as Todd Bentley’s travelling circus hit the road. Starting on May 15, the Bentley revival moved from the Durban area to the “Pretoria Show Grounds” in South Africa. I find that interesting in that the