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Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

canada is america's hat

Tom Brokaw explains Canada to Americans during an NBC Vancouver 2010 Olympic broadcast with Al Michaels. HT: Jeff Smyth Which also brings back memories of the Molson Canadian beer commercial btw, after much hype of how Canada was going to spank the USA in the winter olympic preliminary hockey game, I’m not sure what’s more [...]

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One size fits all?

Joe Manafo just sent me the documentary he made with Nathan Colquhoun, called One Size Fits All? What is God doing on the fringes of Canadian culture? Flying under the radar of pop-Christianity, experimental churches are quietly establishing genuine Kingdom outposts in settings both feared and forgotten. ‘One Size Fits All?’ uncovers the obscure story [...]

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Hip 2B Holy on Global TV

According to Global TV: There’s a Christian reformation stirring in Canada’s Christian churches. Forsaking the traditional pew and altar, these Christians are dropping pop culture references, defying the orthodoxy, and creating their own brands of worship. Suddenly, it’s hip to be holy. To which I say, really?  I can’t honestly say I see a ‘reformation’ [...]

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Tony Campolo on “loving the sinner’

New Direction ministries of Canada recently produced a dvd series called Bridging the Gap: Befriending our gay neighbours. Here’s an interview clip of Tony Campolo sharing a story about a woman’s homosexual son

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Being Asian…

Some thoughts that have been percolating on being Asian… I’m Chinese. I don’t think I realized it till about grade three. I have faint memories of myself squeezing my nose in the mirror in hopes that it wasn’t so flat. Race itself can be a type of poverty Is the asian model minority myth, a [...]

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I Walk a Lonely Road

A great post by Canadian-in-exile and fellow-blogger Jake Belder: I don’t walk much. It’s not that I don’t like to—quite the opposite, in fact. But I live in the middle of the sprawling suburbia of the Orlando metro area, and I have no motivation to walk around here. There are a few different reasons. For [...]

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A Global Vision for the Missional Church?

If you get a chance, be there.

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Stuff on Sex…

Download Mark Driscoll’s latest e-book, Porn Again Christians Ted Haggard breaks his silence Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment Rant on Prop 8 New Directions Ministries Canada Freakonomics – How to think about sex? Gospel singer Ray Boltz shares coming out journey in this Blade exclusive China’s sexual revolution Thoughts?

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