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Archive for January, 2009

Northern Michigan Bishop Nominee Has Background in Buddhism

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Faith, TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, The Living Church The Diocese of Northern Michigan is set to elect as its bishop a priest who once received “lay ordination” in Buddhism. On Jan. 23, a ... Read more..

New York Times Totally Ignores Pro-Life March of 300,000

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From LifeSite News WASHINGTON, January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - BoycottNYT.com editor Don Feder said today that The New York Times' total lack of coverage of last Thursday's March for Life demonstrates ... Read more..

Demographic Winter: The Greatest Crisis Humanity Will Face This Century

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From LifeSite News Speech by Don Feder to the 36th Annual March for Life Rose Dinner January 22, 2009 Ladies and gentlemen, I’m honored to be with you and grateful for the opportunity ... Read more..

Vatican attacks Obama over funding decision

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Judy West, Religious Intelligence A senior Vatican official has criticised US President Barack Obama for overturning a ban on state funding for family-planning groups that carry out or facilitate abortions ... Read more..

Gay paedophile lovers abused boys in flat they were allowed to share ‘because of human rights legislation’

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, News | Comments Off

From Mailonline Two predatory paedophile lovers who abused young boys at their flat were jailed indefinitely today.  Stephen Carruthers, 49, and John Bates, 45, began their relationship in prison while serving ... Read more..

Sex and the City Conference

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

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Pastor Rick Warren’s Prayer

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Prayer | Comments Off

Almighty God, our father, everything we see and everything we can't see exists because of you alone. It all comes from you, it all belongs to you. It all exists ... Read more..

MPs debate Bill which threatens free speech

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute MPs will today debate a justice Bill which contains plans to delete a free speech protection added last year to a controversial ‘gay hate’ law. The free speech ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury criticises BBC decision not to run Gaza aid appeal

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, News | Comments Off

From Telegraph.co.uk The Archbishop of Canterbury has joined widespread criticism over a BBC decision not to run a Gaza aid appeal after more than 50 MPs backed a move to increase ... Read more..

Charity accused of encouraging teenage sex

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in youth culture | Comments Off

By Matt Cresswell, Religious Intelligence A Christian charity has accused a sexual advice charity of encouraging teenagers to have sex. LIFE believes that a new campaign by the organisation Brook, which says ... Read more..

Hundreds of unfaithful women having paternity tests on unborn babies to determine whether to have abortions

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Mailonline Hundreds of British women who have had affairs are carrying out paternity tests on their unborn babies and aborting them if they turn out to be their lover's child. The ... Read more..

FCC Directory Of US Orthodox Parishes Now Online

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

From The Christian Challenge (Hat Tip: Virtueonline) THE DIRECTORY OF TRADITIONAL ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL PARISHES – the popular reference work long published in hardcopy by the Fellowship of Concerned Churchmen (FCC) ... Read more..

Nigeria puts faith in Sunday Schools for revival

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Secularism | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN The House of Bishops of the Church of Nigeria has issued a call for an invigoration of the Sunday school movement to combat atheism and secularism. Meeting at ... Read more..

Some Comments on the Presiding Bishop and Bishop Henry Scriven

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From Anglican Curmudgeon (H/T Kendall Harmon) In a display of now unparalleled and unprecedented lawlessness for an ordained bishop, the Primate of All the Episcopal Church (USA) has thrown down the gauntlet ... Read more..

At March, Black Pastor Warns Obama not to Preside over “Genocide” of American Blacks

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Politics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From LifeSite News WASHINGTON, DC, January 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The most well received speech at the March for Life this year was that of an African American pastor from Frederick ... Read more..

Ruling by a radical

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Politics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, The Spectator Interesting story in today’s Sunday Telegraph about what Obama’s first week in office tells us about the priorities and values of America’s new president. The Telegraph reports Republican uproar ... Read more..

Important correction from Diocese of Recife

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

To The Church of England Newspaper To Anglican-Mainstream Website Dear Sirs, It was a surprise to all of us from the Diocese of Recife to read the title and the internal affirmation of ... Read more..

Paganism, Not Secularism, Says Orthodox Theologian

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Secularism | Comments Off

By Robert J Sanders, Virtueonline The recent Mere Anglicanism Conference in Charleston was entitled, "Engaging Secularism and Islam." These two historical forces were seen as challenges to Christianity and to the ... Read more..

Tribunal: ‘Gay’ rights trump Christianity

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Religious Liberty, Roll Of Honour | Comments Off

From Worldnetdaily A British employment tribunal has ruled that a Christian counselor was wrongfully dismissed after he expressed reservations about offering sexual advice to homosexuals, but the judges rejected his claim ... Read more..

Schism causes Morgan Stanley to freeze Episcopalian accounts

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Financial services firm Morgan Stanley has frozen the accounts of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh because it is unsure who should be allowed to access them. In a letter ... Read more..