No Oscars for Dominionists?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission In the run-up to the Oscars, you may have noted that a song in the film Alone Yet Not Alone was…
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Bob Jones University rehires G.R.A.C.E.
After a boatload of negative publicity, Bob Jones University has re-hired G.R.A.C.E. The announcement was made by the school this morning. BJU Reengages GRACE To Complete Independent Review Greenville, S.C.…
Todd recycles
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. A new e-mail may imply that Todd Bentley’s sabbatical may start out to last at least a couple of months. He’s…
Crossroads Christian Communications, premier sponsor for US conservative evangelical broadcasting convention
Are Canadian evangelicals paying for this? The National Religious Broadcasters is an association of evangelical religious broadcasters in the US, formed in 1944 to, “…advance biblical truth, promote media excellence,…
Bob Jones dies
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Charisma News is reporting that “prophet” Bob Jones passed away on Valentines Day. In the Charisma piece. Rick Joyner is quoted…
Baby baby
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission It may be of passing interest that Faytene Grasseschi, a regular subject here, is now letting on that she is pregnant…
Bob Jones University shuts down G.R.A.C.E. investigation
Really? I doubt this comes as a surprise to anyone involved in holding religious institutions accountable for past and present handling of abuse. This is the second time G.R.A.C.E. (Godly…
Big news about to break with Todd Bentley?
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. I should have first realized that something may have been about to break in regards to Todd Bentley when I saw…
How responsible is the International House of Prayer for the death of Bethany Deaton?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Rolling Stone has a sordid tale of cruelty and death in its January 30, 2014 issue. And the International House of…
“But hey, if she’s gonna run off with another man, why not Jesus, huh?”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. One short clip from Nicolas Cage’s upcoming remake of Left Behind has made it out on the Internet. You can check…
Evangelicals in Isreal with PM Harper
Thanks to an alert blogger. This is the gang that accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Israel. Toronto Star: In addition to the politicians, a delegation of 208 cultural, business…
Rumours should only be a Johnny Crawford song
BY Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Earlier today, I thought that a piece of news might be forthcoming on the Internet based on something I read. I’m…
Canadian University Press plays to the grandstands
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Please permit me to address a bit of a different topic for myself. As an old student press hand back in…
Pastor has 62 second sermon to catch football game
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Don’t want to make this worse by posting on this, but an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in the US held his sermon…
Todd Friel “kicked out” over Todd Bentley stance?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission During his first radio broadcast of the year on January 6, Todd Friel–host of the American theologically conservative Wretched Radio and…
“Church-goers bilked by ‘divine’ advice”
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Good catch by a local daily paper near Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church In Redding California. Johnson’s church, noted by some for…
Six days in; Year Without God blogger Ryan J. Bell without a job
RNS Adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University and Fuller Theological Seminary Ryan J. Bell is learning what it costs to announce a journey to live a year without God. Bell,…
No thanks for the fishes – yet
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,…
Was Faytene ahead of the curve?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. The Dec. 20 Supreme Court of Canada decision striking down several Canadian laws regulating how prostitution operates in Canada would certainly…