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Archive for January, 2009

Diocese of Virginia Goes Over the Brink

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

By Greg Griffith, Stand Firm BabyBlue has the story here and here. The entire resolution reads as follows:   R-4a Integrity of Committing Relationships RESOLVED, that the Diocese of Virginia recognizes our responsibility to respond ... Read more..

The New Anglican Entity in North America

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America | Comments Off

Chris Sugden in Evangelicals Now, January 2009 On December 3rd   - 4th 2008, 800 Anglicans representing over 100,000 Anglicans in 700 congregations. gathered in Chicago to celebrate the publication of the ... Read more..

Take Action! Swearing in the Media

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in News, Take Action! | Comments Off

From Mediawatch-UK The online petition, Stop Swearing On TV, to the Prime Minister continues to attract signatures and yesterday the number went over 3,000.  This is good but the rate of ... Read more..

No Outsiders: Researching approaches to sexualities equality in primary schools

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality, Sex education, youth culture | Comments Off

From the official site of No Outsiders.  Under the offical guise of stamping out bullying (which is really important and necessary, given that bullying seems to remain an endemic scourge in at least most ... Read more..

Teach the pleasure of gay sex to children as young as five, say researchers

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality, Sex education | Comments Off

By Steve Doughty Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project.    Heads of the project have set ... Read more..

UK: Take action on compulsory sex and relationship education

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Sex education, Take Action! | Comments Off

A petition has been launched concerning the debates around changes to sex and relationship education. The petition reads, We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Conduct a 12 week public ... Read more..

‘Right wing’ author banned from the London School of Economics

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Islam | Comments Off

From Cranmer Douglas Murray – director of the Centre for Social Cohesion and one of the most reasonable and knowledgeable journalists and commentators of the right – has been banned from ... Read more..

TEC: A Word of Encouragement to those being sued

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, TEC | Comments Off

By J Philip Ashey, AAC "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, ... Read more..

A Message from Bishop David Anderson

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, TEC | Comments Off

From AAC The most liberal and revisionist clergy of The Episcopal Church (TEC) seem to be afraid that if they don't constantly drag sexuality, and specifically homosexuality, back into the news, ... Read more..

Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina: Making Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age

Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From Titusonenine This Monday, January 26th will mark the anniversary of my consecration. I have been here for a year and have now visited every parish at least once and all ... Read more..

Just where is the Church?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By John Richardson Today I was briefly looking online at a paper by a certain Colin Podmore, titled The Governance of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, to be ... Read more..

Obama’s Assault on Human Life Expected to Begin Today

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Christian Newswire Today, President Barack Obama is expected to issue an Executive Order reversing a vitally important policy of the Bush Administration, the Mexico City Policy, that protected American taxpayers ... Read more..

Brazilian diocese links with the Americans

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Recife -Southern Cone | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN The synod of the Diocese of Recife has voted to leave the shelter of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone and affiliate with the third province ... Read more..

FiF International reacts to Schori’s disinformation on Bishops Wantland & Scriven

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

From Forward in Faith Bishop William C. Wantland Forward in Faith is appalled by TEC Primate Jefferts Schori’s intentional disinformation and abuse of Church Law in her attack upon Bishop William C. ... Read more..

Interview: Rod Thomas, Chairman of Reform

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

By  Terence Handley MacMath, Church Times   REFORM is an Evangelical network in the Church of England, the aim of which is to preserve and foster gospel ministry. It’s as simple as ... Read more..

Our Struggle for the Soul of our Nation

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Robert P George, The Witherspoon Institute (H/T Virtueonline) In remarks delivered yesterday at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, Robert P. George reflected on the history of the pro-life movement and ... Read more..

Divorced from Reality

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Divorce | Comments Off

 by Stephen Baskerville for Touchstone "The full implications of the “no-fault” revolution have never been publicly debated." The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches ... Read more..

Pro-abortion president ignores Roe v. Wade rally

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From OneNewsNow.com WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters rallied Thursday on the National Mall to mark the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade amid concerns they could face political setbacks under ... Read more..

Marriage in the New Administration

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

From IMaPP Although the new administration’s “Agenda” website refers to marriage only twice on its “Family” page (once in the context of calling for a change in the marriage penalty for ... Read more..

Islam’s selective outrage

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Riazat Butt, Guardian Much has been been written about the Gaza conflict and several pieces concern the impact that events are having on British Muslims – whether it's alienating them ... Read more..