Parliament Hill
New Horizons for Seniors Funds Chuck Strahl’s Church
I was a little bit disturbed when I made my daily patrol of the news sites and discovered Lloyd Mackey of CanadianChristianity.com suggesting that there was “a compassionate and entrepreneurial iceberg” of government funding (interesting metaphor) hidden behind a March 18 announcement by Conservative seniors minister Marjory LeBreton, and that the intentions behind these projects [...]
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 [...]
Framing
From The Harper Index: Framing is the practice of influencing how people think and feel about issues by encouraging them to think about them in a particular way. This is done with language that conjures up and appeals to images and values that people know and understand deeply. The political Right is masterful at framing [...]
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 [...]
See how they pray: Ottawa’s National House of Prayer
Dennis Gruending The Ottawa-based National House of Prayer (NHOP) is organizing a National Prayer Sunday for our government and its leaders on June 29. You may not have heard of the NHOP or its prayer list so I will take a brief look at both. You may be surprised – but first a brief bit [...]
Religious Right 101: Marci McDonald Takes On the “Theo-Cons”
I doubt she thought it would end up this way, but I think the best online primer on the religious right in Canada is still Marci McDonald’s 2006 article in The Walrus, “Stephen Harper and the Theo-Cons: The Rising Clout of Canada’s Religious Right.” McDonald explores the connections between the Christian right, a growing array [...]
