Paul Crouch Jr. abruptly leaves Trinity Broadcasting Network
TBN’s legal spokesman didn’t have much to say this week other than “Paul Jr. has resigned from the organization to pursue other ministry work.” TBN is the largest Christian network…
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Rick Mercer & Mike Holmes install solar panels
via: Impolitical
Peter Youngren re-marries
Grace TV: Marriage announcement Peter Youngren and Taina Kuusiluoma were married on Friday, September 30th, 2011 in a ceremony at the Toronto International Celebration Church. The officiating minister was Rev.…
Insite ruling
The Supreme Court of Canada rules unanimously in the facility’s favour. Macleans Applause and a sigh of relief. One of the most powerful things I’ve ever read online was this…
Televangelism – the pale substitute
In 1988, a former employee of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries wrote a piece for The Kansas City Star about his dismissal as a Swaggart bible college staff member. He had been…
Angry Bird creators
I like Angry Birds. My family and most of my friends like Angry Birds. What is not too like in a simple game that doesn’t cost and wing and a…
Gordon Driver/Axcess Automation barred from US securities industry
The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ruled that Canadian Gordon Driver is permanently barred from the securities industry. The SEC states that through his company Axcess Automation, Gordon Driver…
Former Sportsnet personality Damian Goddard working for NOM
Former Sportsnet on-air host, Damian Goddard is now working for a new branch of the National Organization for Marriage, a US anti-gay group. Goddard is named as a primary staff…
6 million dollar class action launched against Redeemer University College
This seems to have been a week where posts have focused on Christian education. Tyndale University, College and Seminary being the first focus, I’ll end this BDBO impromptu education week…
Bush, Tyndale and the dilemmas of Christian leadership
Our family moved to the U.S. shortly after September 11 and experienced what it meant to be foreigners under the George W. Bush administration. We had lived there in the…
Tyndale University College & Seminary gets it’s ‘profile raised’
What was the board thinking? I missed this earlier last week. The sort of short version. 1) On September 13, Tyndale President and Vice Chancellor Dr. Gary Nelson goes on…
Focus on the Family cuts more employees
Focus on the Family is laying off another 49 people. The organization’s workforce has been cut over half the past nine years from a high of 1400 employees in 2002.…
NRB says ‘new media’ censors ‘religious viewpoints’
National Religious Broadcasters (US) plans to hold a news conference in Washington tomorrow today to release results of a study on what they perceive is religious viewpoint censorship in ‘new…
BDBO – tweaked and tweeting
There has been some behind the scenes upgrades to BDBO, and one up front which I hope will make it easier for those of you who use social media. If…
Grace TV building for sale
Peter Youngren’s World Impact Ministries has put the Grace TV building in St. Catherines on the market. The 18,000-square foot structure is listed at $775,000 and described as a “high…
The view from here
The big guy decided to swing by for a rare visit and ended up spending the afternoon.
Dominion Outreach Centre
A friend just called and asked if I was near my ‘puter. I wandered over and pulled up the URL they asked me to – Dominion Outreach Centre Ottawa. They…
Peter Youngren – “the cesspool of mudslinging on Christian blog sites”
This was posted on a blog at World Impact Ministries by the owner of GraceTV. Internet Liars: Peter Youngren comments Written by Peter Youngren on August 30th 2011 The Internet…
The Cry Ottawa 2011
I’d love to hear statistics about how many people organizers believed were there because, it didn’t seem to be that many. Which both saddened and concerned me a little bit.…