Churches
Kings Glory Fellowship Association doesn’t file tax return What’s in a name?
It appears the public is being suckered by Calgarian street preacher Artur Pawlowski. And it appears a group called Kings Glory Fellowship Association may also have been suckered. And it appears Street Church Ministries may have been suckered too.
Pawlowski is identified as head pastor of Kings Glory Fellowship Association, which, according to Equipping Christians for [...]
Jason Kenney blames Bev Oda for KAIROS funding turndown
The Star from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to KAIROS
Your twin accusations that I accused the advocacy group KAIROS of anti-Semitism and that this is why the Canada International Development Agency did not approve a cost-sharing program with the group are false.
I did not accuse KAIROS of being anti-Semitic. What I said was that KAIROS has [...]
KAIROS fights CIDA cuts
By Dennis Gruending 2009. Used by permission. All rights reserved
In October, I attended a fundraising dinner and auction at Ottawa church to support a legal clinic to assist women in eastern Congo. In some of their stories, captured on a brief video, the women describe how they had been gang raped and brutalized by young [...]
Pope Benedict has no sense of irony
Dammit Janet!
…And in other news, bears shit in the woods.
Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians and Muslims today to serve mankind with the “light of God’s truth” while warning that extremists in nations such as Iraq were exploiting religious differences for political and violent agendas.
Speaking at the Al Hussein bin Talal Mosque, the pontiff, whose [...]
The Anglican Right and the Cramner Foundation of Canada
Cross-posted at Terrible Depths.
As someone who defected to the Anglican church from my Baptist roots a few years ago, I have watched with interest as the Canadian and American provinces of that church gradually tear themselves apart over gay marriage and the ordination of women. That process took a large step forward recently when the [...]
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 than [...]
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 [...]
