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Bene Diction

Bene Diction has written 88 posts for Religious Right Alert

Karl Rove, Grant Jeffrey Headlined Summit Hosted By CUFI Canada Co-Chair

Rachel  Tabachnick  July 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved. This summit took place on June 25 -27 and is old news, but since it failed to make it into U.S. media, I think it is worth noting. Also, the blurring of the lines between end times prophecy and foreign policy will continue with the [...]

Timothy Bloedow’s Christian Government website becomes Christian Governance

Timothy Bloedow, legislative assistant to Reform-Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott,  former director of Equipping Evangelicals for the Public Square and former Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidate is ramping up his political activism “for promoting explicitly Christian culture and governance.” In May Bleodow changed his website Christian Government to Christian Governance: ChristianGovernance is pursuing a two-fold purpose: 1) [...]

Demographic winter and the religious right

Dennis Gruending 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Recently I received an email message urging me to read and then pass it along if I want to save Western civilization. The subject line said: Joys of A Muslim Woman: A MUST READ. Actually, it was not about joy at all but was an alarmist [...]

G20: Rapture Outreach Tourism

By Alison. Dawg’s blog. 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved Kady snagged this pic of the Inscribe the Bible.ca bus on Friday. It was parked outside Charles McVety’s Canada Christian College for the Karl Rove mini-G20 Faith and Business speech – which was all about giving the US Dems a “whupping” apparently. Inscribe the Bible Canada [...]

News Digest June 18, 2010

A week after Pentecostals and Charismatics held a  First Nations ‘Forgiven‘ event in Ottawa, it’s like it never happened. The site, blogs and twitter have been silent. There is no word participants are working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kenny Blacksmith of Gathering Nations International and star of the Ottawa event was appointed to [...]

The Armageddon Factor and its critics

Dennis Gruending. 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved I wrote in a recent post about Marci McDonald’s book The Armageddon Factor, which traces the growing political influence of Canada’s religious right. McDonald has clearly struck a nerve – two bodyguards accompanied her at a recent Calgary event to promote her book. Reviews and interviews with her [...]

Tom Warner Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights

Marci McDonald is not the only journalist who has noticed and written about the Canadian religious right this year. Author Tom Warner who is published by Between the Lines has come out with Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Ages of Rights . Losing Control takes a hard, critical look at Canada’s social conservative (religiousright) movement [...]

Charles McVety and G-20.ca

Taxpayers are forking out 1 billion dollars to contain poltiicans during the G-8 and G-20 summits and The Conservative Party of Canada get’s cyber-squatted by Canada’s religious right. Whois: Domain name: g20.ca Domain status: EXIST Domain number: 2550364 Approval date: 2008/11/10 Renewal date: 2010/11/10 Updated date: 2009/11/13 via: Rick Mercer Update: The Galloping Beaver points [...]

It’s all Marci McDonald’s fault

Catholic and protestant reaction to political noise. The Catholic Register has a piece about Msgr. Fred Dolan, head of Opes Dei Canada. He is shocked that a couple of MP Opes Dei members were ‘outed’. Huh? He says he went to Ottawa as usual to ” to feed the spiritual needs of anyone who wanted [...]

The Armageddon Factor Who are Canada’s Christian Nationalists?

Steve Paikin of The Agenda and Marci McDonald, author of The Armageddon Factor The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada May 27, 2010