Dave
Daily Roundup for April 21, 2009
Dave Quist of the Focus on the Family Canada-funded think tank the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, discussed here and by Terrible Depths, recently criticized online dating sites for harming women, explaining that orgasms make women fall in love and therefore must take care not to have them with the wrong men. Ottawa journalist [...]
The Canada-Israel Committee and Canadian “Fifth Columnists”
Blogger Dr. Dawg claims to have obtained a document prepared by Canada-Israel Committee CEO, Shimon Fogel, which describes “a broad strategy… for monitoring Canadians whom the CIC feels are politically suspect.” He warns that he has not verified the authenticity of the document and is open to a denial or other statement from the Committee. The [...]
Daily Roundup for April 20, 2009
http://noapologies.ca/wp-trackback.php?p=1725
Inside a Canadian Mega-Church
Mega-churches and charismatic Christianity are often thought of as characteristically American phenomena. That isn’t always the case – the Toronto Blessing, as the name suggests, was a revival movement taking its inspiration from the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship in Canada. There are also mega-churches north of the border, though generally smaller and fewer in number [...]
The Cry, Charismatics, and Parliament Hill
Dennis Gruending of Pulpit and Politics, in 2008, explored the charismatic and reconstructionist religious youth organization The Cry, which draws together Canadian youth through prayer rallies in Ottawa and other major centres. The Cry is linked to 4 My Canada, the National House of Prayer, Christian Zionist groups like the Watchmen for the Nations, and a [...]
The Canada Family Action Coalition vs. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
What can recent history tell us about the methods and strategies for gaining publicity, used by some Christian right organizations? The following is an informative case story which took place last summer. In August 2008, 42 organizations led by the Canada Family Action Coalition complained to the Canadian Judicial Council, seeking Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s [...]
Homeless Cons and the Religious Right
For the last few weeks, social conservatives in Canada, the U.S. and Britain have had a new (potential) home on the Internet: Homeless Cons. Greeting this new phenomenon, Unrepentant Old Hippie observed that the “homeless cons” in this case were really, more specifically, social conservatives. To that end, Benediction Blogs On added some of the context [...]
Peter Kent and the Canadian Coalition of Democracies
When he was running as a candidate in the fall 2008 elections, several bloggers commented on the background of Conservative MP Peter Kent, now Minister of State for the Americas. Kent was revealed to be a senior member of the neoconservative outfit Canadian Coalition for Democracies. Wrote Dr. Dawg: It’s a group that appears to [...]
Religious Rebranding Exercises
In 2003, tobacco titan Philip Morris attempted to reduce the harm being done to its less lethal subsidiaries, like Kraft foods, through a “re-branding” exercise: Philip Morris became Altria Group. The change was little more than skin deep, of course: the company remained otherwise identical (though Kraft has since been spun out again), and the [...]
The Future of the Evangelical Church in Canada
Early this year, Internet Monk wrote a three-part series assessing the state of the evangelical church in the United States (here, here and here). Briefly, he argues that evangelicals are on the precipice of the same massive and permanent decline already experienced by the Protestant mainline churches; that this movement will hit hardest among the [...]
