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Archive for February, 2009

Credo: ‘Faith is the defeat of probability by possibility’

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

By Jonathan Sacks, Timesonline We owe a debt to the British Humanist Association for its advert on buses: “There’s probably no God.” It is thought-provoking in a helpful way, because it ... Read more..

Obama to revoke Bush Abortion Rule protecting Conscience Rights

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Politics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Tim Waggoner, LifeSite News WASHINGTON, February 27th, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Barack Obama is poised to rescind a policy that protects the conscience rights of American health care workers. The controversial ... Read more..

Bishop Williamson, neo-Nazis and SSPX

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

 By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline It is difficult to conclude anything other than that the Roman Catholic Church in Europe is in turmoil. Bishops are in open and unprecedented rebellion. Under ... Read more..

Lent Meditations

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

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Sexuality and Human Nature

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By James Tonkowich, Institute on Religion and Democracy In last week’s email, I discussed Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan William’s position on same-sex marriage taken from an article by Paul Elie in ... Read more..

PITTSBURGH: Pastoral Letter from Bishop Robert Duncan

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

From Virtueonline Bishop Duncan comments on the decision of the new Episcopal Church diocese to reject mediation. TO THE CLERGY AND PEOPLE OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As ... Read more..

Church of England Fund Loses $1.7 Billion on Markets

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Peter Woodifield, Bloomberg.com Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Church of England’s investment fund, which pays the pensions of retired clergy, lost about 1.2 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) last year as ... Read more..

Canada: Archbishop Fred Hiltz welcomes proposed ‘mediated conversation’

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada | Comments Off

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said he was “encouraged” by the proposal for a “professionally mediated conversation” involving North American churches ... Read more..

What Future Strategy should Forward in Faith UK adopt?

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Roland W Morant, Virtueonline Now that the recent session of the General Synod of the Church of England and the Special National Assembly of Forward In Faith have come and gone, ... Read more..

Women Bishops: Letter to Church Times

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Women Bishops | Comments Off

From Mrs Lorna Ashworth Sir, I had a couple of concerns during the General Synod debate on the draft legislation regarding women bishops (Synod, 13 February). First, although the bulk of this debate ... Read more..

A Message from Bishop David Anderson

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, TEC | Comments Off

From AAC Beloved in Christ, I am constantly amazed at how far and wide the general distribution of the AAC Weekly Update goes. Everywhere I go in the world someone steps forward ... Read more..

Gay ‘Romeo and Julian’ school play sparks political correctness debate

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Political Correctness, Proselytization | Comments Off

By Murray Wardrop, Telegraph.co.uk A school has been accused of "mind-blowing" political correctness after it staged a homosexual version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - called Romeo and Julian.  The play was ... Read more..

A remarkable speech: The Uniqueness of Christ in Multi-Faith Britain

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

This speech by Chik Kaw Tan of Lichfield Diocese at General Synod on the Uniqueness of Christ set a wonderful tone for the subsequent debate. Mr. Chairman, I was brought up in ... Read more..

Cardinal Condemns ‘Unacceptable’ Limits on Religious Freedom

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Jennifer Gold, Christian Post LONDON – Anti-discrimination legislation is being used to limit freedom of religion “in unacceptable ways,” says the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and ... Read more..

Extremists thrive in crisis, says Williams

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Ed Beavan, Church Times BRITAIN is at risk from political extremism as a result of the financial crisis, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned this week. Speaking during a meeting of the ... Read more..

Ban on criticising gay sex ‘is attack on civil liberty’

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The Government is attacking civil liberty by attempting to remove a free speech protection from a law on ‘inciting homophobic hatred’, says a new report. The report was ... Read more..

Engaging with the BNP: Race, Culture and National Identity

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

By John Richardson, The Ugley Vicar If parties were stocks and shares then it might be observed that the political world is currently going through a ‘credit crunch’ of its own ... Read more..

ANGLICAN COVENANT: Wide-ranging opinions on the St Andrew’s Draft

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant, Church of England | Comments Off

From Church Times  (Hat Tip: Thinking Anglicans) SYNOD MEMBERS had the opportunity to comment in detail on the House of Bishops’ draft response to the St Andrew’s Draft of the Anglican ... Read more..

Lesbian couple win fertility bid

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

From BBC News A lesbian couple have won the right to NHS treatment to help them have a baby after threatening to sue health chiefs. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) had denied ... Read more..

How have we reached this point? Sex-saturated Lent

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, News, Secularism, Take Action! | Comments Off

Why this is important is that  these elements are not confined to a leftie student fringe. Rather, these views are found in the writings of respectably-placed theologians like the School of Divinity, Edinburgh University's Marcella Althaus-Reid  (see ... Read more..