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Archive for April, 2009

The Morning After Pill and the End of Parenthood

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler The secular left is a diverse amalgam of various interest groups and ideologies. Of course, the same is true to some extent on the conservative end of the ... Read more..

Atheists target UK schools

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Education | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph.co.uk  The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS) plans to launch a recruitment drive this summer. Backed by professors Richard Dawkins and AC Grayling, the ... Read more..

Rev Dr Peter Toon – Obituary

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

 Peter Toon, 1939 – 2009 Peter, son of Thomas Arthur and Hilda Toon, was born in Yorkshire, England, soon after the start of World War II.  After him came Paul, David ... Read more..

Gafcon fizzling out?

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Chris Sugden - Evangelicals Now?  May 2009 Was this an April Fool’s joke? “ an African colleague asked me over African tea in Nairobi when I told him of the resignation ... Read more..

Christian teacher suspended over gay rights promotion row

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Proselytization, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

 By Jonathan Petre, Mailonline A senior teacher has been suspended from his £50,000-a-year job after he complained that a training day for staff was used to promote gay rights. Kwabena Peat, 54, ... Read more..

‘God was testing my faith,’ says Miss California after Perez Hilton calls her a ‘dumb bitch’ in gay marriage row

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Mailonline A beauty queen who told America that marriage should be between a man and a woman says God was testing her faith in the row.  'I have no regrets,' ... Read more..

Anglicans are ‘voice of the voiceless,’ says outgoing archbishop of Kenya

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in AIDS, Global South, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal As he heads towards retirement this month, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya, said that he hopes he leaves behind “a ... Read more..

A message from Bishop David Anderson

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council | Comments Off

From AAC Beloved in Christ, It is always hard to say farewell to a friend, but it is a joy to go out into the world and make new friends. So the ... Read more..

Public Resistance against Homosexualization of Society Launched in Germany with Over 600 Prominent Signers

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News Preparations for a conference on psychotherapy set for May in Marburg, Germany are being disrupted by an "action alliance of queer, feminist, and anti-fascist and anti-sexist" ... Read more..

More Respect, Not More Condoms

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

From Zenit A response to: Cardinal Pell Responds to Media Criticism of Pope As an Archbishop, dealing on a daily basis with people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, I know that the ... Read more..

Dr Carey – ‘Doctrine, not bureaucracy, must unite us’

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Apologetics, Church of England | Comments Off

By George Conger THE ANGLICAN Communion should be “united by doctrine and a shared faith” and not subservient to its ecclesial structures, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey has said. Speaking ... Read more..

Gafcon leaders speak out against centralisation

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Consultative Council, Global Anglican Future Conference | Comments Off

From George Conger, Religious Intelligence Political and ecclesiastical authority should reside within the provinces of the Anglican Communion and not the “instruments of unity,” eight archbishops concluded last week at the ... Read more..

Psychiatrist, Therapist and Rabbi say Gays can change

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

 "It's all about choice," says Dr. Joseph Nicolosi By David W. Virtue in London www.virtueonline.org 4/25/2009 A high police presence and over 100 gay activists failed to prevent participants at a two-day ... Read more..

Protests expected at ‘gay cure’ conference

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Homosexual protesters are planning to gather at a conference in London tomorrow featuring a therapist who helps men struggling with same-sex attraction. Activist groups say Dr Joseph Nicolosi’s ... Read more..

Love’s Labours Lost – the end of the Covenant?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant, TEC | Comments Off

From The Ugley Vicar Anglican Down Under has a very interesting comment, under the title 'Much Ado about Nothing', on the attitudes being taken in (and towards) TEC over the issue ... Read more..

Bishops: Church’s Doctrine, Worship, Polity in ‘Grave Peril’

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From The Living Church The primary responsibility of the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church is to preside at meetings of the House of Bishops and to act as its agent ... Read more..

Evangelical appointed Bishop of Sherborne

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline A leader of a prominent evangelical grouping in the Anglican war over gays has been appointed bishop to one of the oldest historic Episcopal seats in the ... Read more..

The “far-reaching implications” of the appointment of the Bishop of Sherborne

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Ruth Gledhill writes on the appointment of Canon Dr Graham Kings as the new Bishop of Sherborne in the Diocese of Salisbury Read here Read more..

Dr Joe Nicolosi on BBC News 24 – Can people with unwanted same-sex attraction change?

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Dr Joe Nicolosi was interviewed on BBC News during the Sex and the City Conference View Here Read more..

Bishop Eliud Wabukala to be new Archbishop of Kenya

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

http://www.ackenya.org/images/wabukala.gif The Rt. Rev. Dr. Eliud W. Wabukala was elected the 5th Primate and Archbishop of Kenya in a very peaceful, joyous and orderly election process by a 158 member ... Read more..