Bene Diction Blogs On

Illuminated World. The Book

Bene Diction — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:40:11 +0000

I read this over at Today at the Mission, thought to myself, huh, another illustrated bible, clicked over to the site and… I’m grateful. Moved. This is a form of the bible you’d be delighted to have people steal. I have friends that enjoy their audio bibles. This is for those of us who are more [...]

Conservative expert says Cadman/Zytaruk tape not altered

Bene Diction — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:37:04 +0000

A judge ordered an inspection of the tape after Harper launched a $3.5-million libel suit against the Liberal Party of Canada. The suit centres on allegations that Harper and the Conservatives tried to bride Cadman into helping them defeat the minority Liberal government in 2005 by offering the cancer-stricken MP a $1-million life insurance plan. [...]

Vote for Bart the fish!

Bene Diction — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:13:33 +0000

Must be Friday. ATV (the Atlantic division of CTV) released outtakes of Stephane Dion misunderstanding or apparently misunderstanding of anchor Steve Murphy’s question. It must be a Friday prior to a federal election. Let’s hope someone in Halifax doesn’t decide to release some Steve Murphy outtakes in his language. Do Quebec stations have interview restarts or outtakes of [...]

McVety unhappy with Harper film tax pandering

Bene Diction — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:28:08 +0000

Imagine. Politicians pandering for votes during an election. Tuesday’s promise by Stephen Harper “ to reverse plans to scrap tax credits for productions deemed offensive to Canadian viewers” is appreciated by the Canadian film industry, less so by others. Prominent evangelical leader Charles McVety, who boasted last winter that his lobbying for “conservative values” had influenced the Harper [...]

Advance polling numbers down

Bene Diction — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:35:59 +0000

David Akin looks at the advance polling numbers released by Elections Canada. Advance polls where held Friday, Saturday and Monday. Elections Canada said late last night that 1.46 million Canadians cast their ballots in advance polls, a decrease from the 1.56 million who exercised their franchise early in 2006. Louis-Hébert where 11,239 (Conservative incumbent) Carleton-Mississippi Mills (Conservative incumbent) Nepean-Carleton [...]

Tall Skinny Kiwi - school violates their vaccination parental consent

Bene Diction — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:14 +0000

Scary story from Andrew Jones of Tall Skinny Kiwi. He is getting excellent advice in his comment section, but the deed has been done. Now the one that did the deed needs to be held accountable. We have no overt moral or spiritual issue with the immunization itself and, along with the FRC, we don’t believe [...]

Is religion playing a role in the 2008 federal election?

Bene Diction — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:13:41 +0000

In March of this year Listen Up evangelical host Lorna Dueck gave the five federal candidates two uninterrupted minutes to answer this question: Describe your faith and the role it plays in your life?”The end few seconds of the clip is the most interesting. Dueck is a bit like David Brody (a good reporter working [...]

Mercy Ministries - Jesus Rx

Bene Diction — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:05:21 +0000

The Nashville Scene’s Caleb Hannon has an excellent investigative report on Mercy Ministries of America. In March of this year a couple of young women stepped forward in Australia and broke open the story of abuse, neglect, secrecy and spiritualization at one of the overseas locations of the girls/women treatment centres that began in the US. Unbeknownst [...]

La discussion anglaise - liveblogging with a blog buddy

Bene Diction — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:58:38 +0000

BD: The advantage is in the communication skills, I agree. We’ll have to do this again someday eh? LT:11:02 Well I was cheering for May and I wasn’t disappointed. I think Harper shot back better than he did last night. At the beginning some of the hand offs between the opposition leaders worked so well I [...]

What Palin’s candidacy says about America

Bene Diction — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:22:49 +0000

Heather Malik’s piece on Sarah Palin comes off looking like a puff piece. Matt Tabbi: Mad Dog Palin.