Twitter’s testimony about Todd
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Todd Bentley’s infamous remarks saying that the death of British MP Malcolm Wicks was “the Lord’s justice” were, as noted in Bene D’s transcript...
View Article“Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!?!”
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. “Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about…”
View ArticleWhy God?
Dr. John Stackhouse – Why, God?” Asked the American People, and Would Not Stay for an Answer Has Prof. Alvin Plantinga of the University of Notre Dame, arguably the most important thinker about the...
View ArticleNew Spring Church and blogger James Duncan
In 2009 I followed a blog by James Duncan, an associate communications professor at Anderson University. He had criticised a bill board campaign by New Spring Church, headed by a guy named Perry Noble....
View ArticleMaxwell family members behind Prairie Bible Institute Survivor Fund...
In November 2011, Prairie Bible Institute President Mark Maxwell went to media with a story of historical abuses at the Three Hills school, and the school released a statement that administration went...
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Starring Brad Pitt as Pontius Pilate?!?
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission No one can say that Hollywood is a boring place, eh? It seems that Bible-themed films might be a bit of a trend these days. The latest idea is...
View ArticleRise of the mini-Faytenes
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission What’s new with Fraytene Grasseschi these days? Well, those who follow her Canadian political initiative MY Canada (as it is now named) may be...
View ArticleGOD TV is totally fine with Todd Bentley again
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission A brief e-mail from Todd Bentley’s ministry this afternoon reveals that the TV network thinks it quite alll right for the evangelist to appear...
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Charisma’s Feb. 2013 cover story is about Faytene
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Faytene Grasseschi could be said to have hit the big leagues now. The evangelist, a regular subject here, is profiled in the next issue of...
View ArticleChristian blogs and the courts
Dr. James Duncan – Why we sued another believer The Daily Beast has a comprehensive article, Calvary Chapel’s Tangled Web about Calvary Chapels in the US, and the trail of lawsuits, including...
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Faytene–You are *not* allowed to quote us without permission, redux
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A quick update on Faytene Grasseschi’s group’s media policies, while I wait for that cover story on her in the new Charisma magazine to hit...
View ArticleTodd Bentley is “as far from the understanding of God as [he has] ever known’
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Why is Todd Bentley starting a little bit of a public relations campaign these days? Well, some of it may be due to the fact that some...
View ArticleUS missionary organization ABWE dumps G.R.A.C.E. investigative team
Following lengthy deliberation and prayer, ABWE today replaced G.R.A.C.E.— the victims’ advocacy organization—with a new investigative firm. G.R.A.C.E. was hired by ABWE in May 2011 to independently...
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Peter Youngren’s Finnish organization AEM – guilty
In 2010 Peter Youngren (Grace TV, World Impact Ministries, Celebration Church Toronto) told ChristianWeek, the breaking fiasco in Finland was ‘frivolous and laughable at best.” It doesn’t appear...
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Government suspends CIDA funding to Crossroads Christian Communications
The minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency which has been giving funding to an evangelical organization that describes homosexuality as a “perversion” and a “sin,” said...
View ArticleG.R.A.C.E. responds to being fired by the Association of Baptists for World...
Investigating historical child abuse in a Christian organization can be messy. Last week in the US, things got a lot messier when ABWE, which botched reports of severe sexual abuse of missionary kids...
View ArticleNow a major motion picture. In a bit.
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Although I don’t think they have started making the film yet, the Nicolas Cage reboot of Left Behind has a proposed first poster according to...
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Charisma–Faytene is “not only calling for righteousness but walking in it”
Charisma, February 2013 issue By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission I figured that Charisma’s coverage of Faytene Grasseschi–she graces their February 2013 cover–would be very...
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ABWE continues it’s public trashing of G.R.A.C.E.
The Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, a US missionary organization with a history of historical child abuse fired its outside investigative team the second week of February, just a few...
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