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Archive for February, 2009

Will Pope Benedict XVI board the atheist bus to Britain?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Was the Vatican just trying to let Gordon Brown down gently, when it denied initially that the Prime Minister had invited Pope Benedict XVI to Britain? After all, ... Read more..

Church of England Synod: Details of the vote on women bishops

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops | Comments Off

The electronic voting figures for last week's vote in General Synod  to send the draft measure to permit the ordination of women as bishops to revision in committee are now available here.     Read more..

Christmas church attendance falls by 11pc in a year

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Statistics published by the Church of England disclose that 2.66million people went to services on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in 2007, down from 2.99m the previous ... Read more..

Anglicans in the Americas plan mission gathering

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion | Comments Off

By Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal Life Online [Episcopal News Service] Members of the six Anglican Communion provinces in the Americas will gather February 22-27 in San José, Costa Rica, for the ... Read more..

To Covenant or Not to Covenant?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, ECUSA, TEC | Comments Off

To Covenant or Not to Covenant? That is the Question: What Then Shall We Do?  From Sarah Hey/StandFirm 20 February  2009    A very thoughtful essay from the Anglican Communion Institute on various ... Read more..

Lest we forget: More casualties, this time in Eritrea

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Social justice, social action, suffering church | Comments Off

Three Christians Dead in Eritrean Prisons VOM Since October, three Christians imprisoned for their faith have died in Eritrean military prisons, according to Compass Direct News. Mehari Gebreneguse Asgedom died on Jan. ... Read more..

Federally-Funded Ad Campaign Holds Up Value of Marriage

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Marriage, youth culture | Comments Off

By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY          Hat-tip:  Maggie Gallagher/iMAPP   Marriage has turned into quite a quandary for many young adults. Should they or shouldn't they? Can they escape divorce? Will moving in ... Read more..

Testing Times -The Church of England and the challenge of Islam

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Culture, Islam, News | Comments Off

[P]erhaps it is not surprising that two of the most powerful contributions at last week’s General Synod came from bishops who have lived in church cultures very different from that ... Read more..

Why They Don’t Get It

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Children/Family, Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Secularism | Comments Off

Helping Students Understand Worldview  BreakPoint Christian Smith and Melinda Denton, in their book Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, describe the current worldview of American teenagers, most of ... Read more..

Nigerian bishop decries sit-tight syndrome among leaders

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Nigeria, Politics, Social justice, social action | Comments Off

From the Church of Nigeria  The newly enthroned Bishop of Kubwa Anglican Diocese, The Rt. Rev. Duke Timothy Akamisoko has publicly decried the sit-tight syndrome of myopic leaders who cling to ... Read more..

And for those who doubt the reality of the struggle…

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Culture, Freedom Of Speech, From Lisa's Lookout, Political Correctness, Religious Liberty, Secularism, Take Action! | Comments Off

 Rob Gagnon itemizes the names and situations of some of those who have refused to support the LGBT agenda in the 'liberal' West and it has cost them dearly. These individuals are on the front line and deserve all ... Read more..

Peter Ould: On those who did not vote ‘yes’

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Theology | Comments Off

The Uniqueness of Christ - Who Voted No? Peter Ould February 20th, 2009   Last week we saw the terrific debate in General Synod on the uniqueness of Christ which I live-blogged on. The ... Read more..

More on the brave black pastor and activist, Walter Hoye

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Freedom Of Speech, From Lisa's Lookout, Religious Liberty, Take Action!, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Rev. Hoye is an African-American pastor who feels a special calling to work for the end of the genocide-by-abortion taking place in the African-American community. As part of his efforts, ... Read more..

African American Pastor Sentenced to Jail for Counselling Women on Public Sidewalk

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Coercion, From Lisa's Lookout, Political Correctness, Religious Liberty, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

LifeSite News.com  20 February 2009 Yesterday Rev. Walter Hoye of Berkeley, California was sentenced to serve 30-days in county jail after being found guilty on January 15, 2009, of unlawfully approaching ... Read more..

Bushfires, Mourning, Abortion and Hearing from God

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Children/Family, Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Theology, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Two days after the fires swept through Victoria I considered writing a post about abortion in that state. I had some thoughts in my mind but, given the timing, thought ... Read more..

Censorship and the secular left: how far we’ve come

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Political Correctness, Secularism | Comments Off

Bill Muehlenberg  17 February 2009 Liberal or leftist secularism is the reigning ideology amongst our Western intelligentsia and elites. It certainly has a stranglehold on our educational system. It can be ... Read more..

Girls under 12 admit having sex

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, From Lisa's Lookout, News, Secularism, youth culture | Comments Off

Metro  17 February 2009  Hat-Tip:  CCFON  In a survey out today 6% of teenage girls admit to having sex before the age of 12. Two-thirds of sexually active under 18-year-olds lost ... Read more..

From CARE: Protection of a work-free Sunday

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Culture, Secularism, Take Action! | Comments Off

Protection of a work-free Sunday   We would like to bring to your attention the European Parliament "Written declaration 0009/2009 on the protection of a work-free Sunday".   This written declaration expresses ... Read more..

Planned Parenthood, President Obama and ‘Too Many’ Abortions

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Gerald McDermott and Carol Swain   Hat-tip:  VirtueOnline February 15, 2009 David Nova, a regional Planned Parenthood vice president, recently told the Roanoke Times there are "too many abortions." President Obama has said ... Read more..

More on how gay sex is wrong

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Rob Gagnon Statement to the Allegheny County Council in Opposition to the Homosexual “Non-Discrimination” Bill No. 4201-08 The Best Analogies and What’s Wrong with Homosexual Practice Supporters of this bill compare homosexual ... Read more..