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…
Mississippi State.jpg Yesterday I arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, for another installment of an enterprise to which I’ve been increasingly devoted over the last year: Training scientists in c...
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…
N_daily_extent_hires.png Last week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center came out with the estimate that we did not quite set a record for the minimum extent of Arctic sea…
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 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.…
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…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Christianity Today has a report on filmmaker Roy Peterson’s film on Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival. The magazine’s writer observes,…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. It’s quite often progressives who find fault with the theory of “dominionism”. And that bothers me a bit. You would suspect…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. There’s a video call to prayer from Faytene Grasseschi from Sept. 11th on the ‘net now. Faytene brings some thoughtful things…
509983main_adjusted_annual_temperature_anomalies_final.gif Readers of my posts over the last half year will be familiar with the phenomenon of motivated reasoning, in which people’s subcons...
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…
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…
472px-Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg Ever since the Republican presidential debate last week, science watchers have been shaking their heads over Rick Perry’s rid...
dont-tread-on-me.jpg There’s a fascinating new public opinion analysis out today from Anthony Leiserowitz and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. It looks at political divides...
scientific journals.JPG An editor resigns after a journal publishes a paper that seems to trash the scientific consensus on climate change—but is heavily criticized by top scientists. Where...
Welcome to September! Adam is back west, the nights are beginning to get cold, and frosh have returned to Carleton. Tune in at 7am to see me kick off my…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. I’m a great believer in people having fun with their faith, but now Robert Grasseschi is reportedly being, well, a little…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Pernission. Noted blogger Mark Byron has chosen to repliy to my post earlier this week on the usefulness of keeping an eye…
