Not just religious people in general but, specifically, Calvinists.
New Scientist reports an intriguing study on religion and perception of physical reality. Bernhard Hommel, Head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, University of Leiden, has found evidence that Calvinists have better visual perception skills than do atheists.  The visual acuity of 40 Calvinists and 40 [...]

Even as Swedish politicians debate legalisation of same-sex “marriages”, the leader of a leftist party wants recalcitrant pastors forced to violate their consciences.
As Sweden moves closer to a same-sex marriage law, Left Party leader Lars Ohly wants to include a provision to force pastors to wed gay couples.
According to Ohly, the gender neutral marriage law [...]

Egyptian State Security Investigation officers took writer-blogger Reda Abdel Rahman into custody last month and have detained him at an undisclosed location.  His mother and two sister asked officials where they are keeping him, but the request was not well received.
The mother of Mr. Redda Abdel-Rahman Ali, and her two daughters (Azza, and Hebba), went [...]

At the risk of incurring the Journalism Doctor’s disdain, I want to thank those who have commented on my recent post “John Miller’s mind is made up”.  They have provided enlightening background information on Ayatollah Khomeini’s contentious Little Green Book.
Annie Lessard of Point de bascule supplies the URL of the full text of the French [...]

The Nova Scotia government is trumpeting its success in reducing waiting times for medical procedures.  The only trouble is the province has no data to substantiate its claim.
The MacDonald government says it is reducing wait times but is a long way from proving it.
“There is no operating room (information) system, there is no electronic patient [...]

In his latest blog post, “The Journalism Doctor” John Miller meditates on the preamble to The Canadian Multicultural Act of 1985, arguing that current objections to state censorship in Canada arise from ignorance of what multiculturalism entails.
Along the way, he slips in yet another drive-by smear of his nemesis Mark Steyn.
My fact-check analysis of Steyn’s [...]

The collect for today, the 26th Sunday after Trinity, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O God, whose blessed Son was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil, and make us the sons of God, and heirs of eternal life; Grant us, we beseech thee, that, having this hope, we may [...]