August 2008 National Updates

August 7, 2008

Feature: Growth of video game industry raises concerns
VIDEO GAMES made their debut in arcades across America in the 1970s. Soon, millions of people were plugging quarters into massive consoles to play favorites such as Pong, Space Invaders and Pac-Man.
Lambeth fails to heal Anglican rift
ANGLICANS were divided on whether the 2008 Lambeth Conference had fostered a sense of unity or deepened an existing schism, following the conclusion of the conference, which brings together Anglican bishops from around the world...
OttawaWatch: We shall all be changed
THERE USED to be a sign on the doorway to the child care nursery at Ottawa's Metropolitan Bible Church.
It read: "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."
News briefs
• Mega BBQ for Downtown Eastside
• Students perform for 20,000 visitors during 90 Fiddler performances
• ICEJ Canada promotes podcasts
• more
News links
• The death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The "Jesus sucks" stunt and other "human rights" complaints
• The Greyhound bus attack and Fred Phelps
• more

August 14, 2008

Evangelicals 'were everywhere' in Quebec City
EVANGELICAL Christians celebrated the 400th anniversary of Quebec City this summer by distributing over 400,000 copies of the Gospel of John.
Editorial: In solidarity with Tim McLean
THEY CAME alone and in small groups. Many arrived hours before the funeral of Tim McLean, the victim of last month's gruesome slaying on a Greyhound bus.
OttawaWatch: Behind the Greyhound story
WITHOUT intruding too much on the tragedy involving the death of Tim McLean, en route on a bus from Edmonton to Winnipeg, I would like to touch on the names and involvements...
News briefs
• Jesus in the City - Toronto
• Hillsong in Canada
• Lutheran youth gather
• more
News links
• Beijing Olympics
• Politicians and religion
• "Human rights" tribunals and commissions
• more

August 21, 2008

Lakeland Outpouring ends as Bentley resigns
The Lakeland Outpouring, the controversial revival in Florida led by Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley, has come to an end, amid reports that Bentley's marriage is in trouble.
Momentum building for Dalit liberation
IT IS humanity's longest lasting form of discrimination. It has held sway over its victims for three millennia; and though it has been officially outlawed for almost six decades, it continues to plague the lives of millions.
OttawaWatch: Rick Warren and the Canadians
I was wondering, this week, about providing some Canadian comment on Saturday's Rick Warren interviews with American presumptive presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.
News briefs
• United Church welcomed Huynh family
• Canadian Pornography Channel Approved
• Calvin College prof on Solzhenitsyn
• more

August 28, 2008

Safe Third Country Agreement challenged by churches
TORONTO -- Administrative backlogs, a marriage of convenience with the United States and compromised due process in Canada's refugee system have churches taking Canada's government to the Supreme Court.
Corporate chaplains serve as 'life coaches'
EVERY week, employees in a number of Alberta and B.C. companies receive a brief visit from a 'company chaplain.'
OttawaWatch: Will they or won't they?
Of course, the vote date is already set. For the first time in Canadian history, the timing of the federal election has been determined. It is set by legislation for on or close to October 19, 2009.
News briefs
• Fifty is nifty
• Case being driven by religious rights
• The grasp is always greater on the other side of the street
• more
News round-up
• The mumps outbreak and religious objections to vaccination
• Abortion, Morgentaler and religious freedom for doctors
• Todd Bentley
• more

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