The Cry becomes a “movement” to “go global”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. The Cry, Faytene Grasseschi’s prayer event, is now a global movement. The last Cry, which was held about a month ago…
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The F-35 Boondoggle
Many are angry that instead of the promised $16 billion cost of the new F-35’s the actual price tag will be more than $25 billion but Canadians shouldn’t forget that…
49 Cliff Clavin’s Walk into a Bar and Talk Climate Change
Cliff1.jpg This is a guest post from Dr. John Abraham You could almost set your watch by it. It has become a regular absurdity that a bunch of non-scientists try…
PBI Survivor Fund Project/Healing Team communication policy
Recently I wrote The Survivor Fund Project/Healing Team and asked for an updated list of team members. I appreciate the response. The alumni, who operate under the umbrella of PBI…
Radio Topics, April 10
I hope that everyone had a great weekend! This tuesday, at 8am we’ll speak with Caron Cheng of Mountain Equipment Co-Op about their upcoming bikefest. We’ll also touch on some…
10 Rules for Social Media Engagement
1. Pray. Bring Christ into the relationship at the very beginning, and let your prayer have more of the ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is listening’ than ‘Lord, open my lips…
Ontario school board receives threats for bible distribution ban
Bluewater District School Board trustees are monitoring threats and hate mail which includes racist threats and questions of members patriotism as they prepare to formalize a policy banning the handing…
Toronto pastor defrauds investors to the tune of 8.2 million
A Scarborough pastor who mixed God and Mammon fleeced investors of $8.2 million, the Ontario Securities Commission has found. But while the investors’ money has disappeared, Marlon Gary Hibbert funneled…
First Baptist Church of Jacksonville settles with blogger
A few years ago a blogger who had begun to post anonymously about FBC Jacksonville Florida, found himself under seige and under threat for what he wrote. FBJax Watchblog endured…
PBI Survivor Fund Project criteria for therapists
I hope this information will put some of the speculation about how PBI has chosen to control the access of abuse survivors to therapy to rest. Over the last while,…
Radio Topics, April 2nd
Welcome to April! We’ve got an exciting show lined up. At 8:30, we’ll speak with Ian Lee about a recent move by Canada’s yogurt cartel to stop a competitor from…
Judith Curry Was For Me Before She Was Against Me
400px-Curry_2006_200dpi.jpg I first got to know Judith Curry—the Georgia Tech researcher who blogs at “Climate, Etc.,” and has been drawn into controversy for, in her words, “challenging many aspects of…
The moral reasoning behind Mr. Harper’s environmental policies?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. If Stephen Harper wants to keep his faith, and how it affects his politics, close to his vest, we can’t fault…
GM Dumps Heartland Institute, Will No Longer Fund Climate-Denying Spinstitute
heartland logo.jpg General Motors is breaking up with the Heartland Institute, announcing recently that the company will discontinue funding to the notorious climate-denying spin shop. The move by GM comes…
Conservatives versus Science: A New Scientific Validation of the Republican War on Science (and Republican Brain) Thesis
rwos.jpg For a while now, I’ve been aware of a powerful new paper that directly tests the central argument of my 2005 book The Republican War on Science—and also validates…
Calgary Centre Street Church, withdraws partnership with Prairie Bible Institute
Centre Street Church has withdrawn it’s support as an independent 3rd party to Prairie Bible Institute. The church was chosen in lieu of requests by PBI abuse survivors requests for…
Radio Topics, March 27th
The Junos are in town this week, and so are all sorts of bands. Brothels legalized! Ontario budget Day! Freezes a coming: Salaries! Welfare! Alberta heads to the polls! Transgendered…
How Do You Build a Scientific Republican?
411px-Jon_Huntsman_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg It’s widely known that Republicans, far more than Democrats, reject modern climate science. And more and more, it has become apparent that this is at least partly because Republicans…
Canadian Christianity article gives sympathetic portrayal of Prairie Bible Institute ‘frustration’ with abuse allegations
No survivor of abuse at PBI was interviewed for this Canadian Christianity article. PBI continues to use media to distance itself from the responsibility to openly change it’s policies regarding…