• Slap Upside the Head continues to cover the Albertan gay benefits policy. Premier Ed Stelmach has now defended his minister and Treasury Board president Lloyd Snelgrove, by declaring in Question Period that the government will continue its policy of recognizing same-sex spouses as “benefit partners” rather than as “spouses”: “the benefits are the same… and that’s the most important thing.
• World Impact Ministries evangelist Peter Youngren is purchasing Canada’s The Christian Channel, assuming the CRTC approves the transaction. Youngren apparently can’t be reached for comment, but his business manager, Nathan Thurber, says “the interest came from the Lord’s direction.” The channel will be re-branded Grace Television Network, and an hour-long show by Youngren will be added to the lineup. Mags Storey of Christian Week tried without success to contact Youngren for an interview.
•  BD here:  The National Post has decided to increase coverage of religion and has titled it’s  new blog ”Holy Post.” Ethicist, author and Regent professor Dr. John Stackhouse is a contributor, saying on his blog that the NatPo:

(is)…increasing its coverage of religion at a time when many media are scaling back.

One of the clever ways the NP has devised to do so is to get some people to write for it on the cheap–low-profile, strugging writers desperate for some attention, such as . . . yes, you guessed it . . . your servant.

His first contribution is Religion means you, too.   We wish  Holy Post contributors well.