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Archive for June, 2009

Telling it like it is? Standpoint, Michael Nazir Ali and Rowan Williams

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Charles Raven,  SPREAD A year after ‘Breaking Faith with Britain’, written for the launch of ‘ Standpoint’ magazine (www.standpointmag.co.uk) Bishop Michael Nazir Ali again sets out the case for a ... Read more..

Analysis and commentary on the launch of the ACNA

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Barbara Gauthier Bishops: Bp. Martyn Minns says that for right now, like AMiA and Rwanda, CANA churches will carry dual citizenship in both the ACNA and Nigeria. The goal is that ... Read more..

‘Equality camp’ for kids seeks recruits

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Coercion, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The Government’s ‘equality’ watchdog is recruiting 14 and 15-year-olds for its second annual summer camp. The camp, called Our Space, will consist of a few days in the ... Read more..

Sexuality and Slavery – Part One

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Peter Ould I want to begin a series of posts looking at how Scripture approaches sexuality and slavery and to see whether the allegation that conservatives use two different exegetical ... Read more..

40 years of gay ‘rights’

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Gay Marriage, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Robert R Reilly, Mercartornet Writing about homosexuality has become a growth industry, one writer has quipped. Indeed, there has never been a time in our nation when we have been ... Read more..

Religious leader call for end to ‘legal euthanasia’ move

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Stephen Adams and George Pitcher Three of Britain's most senior religious leaders have joined forces in a rare bid to stop a Lords amendment that they fear would pave the ... Read more..

At least 85 sharia ‘courts’ operating in Britain, says Civitas report

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Islam, Sharia | Comments Off

By John Bingham, Telegraph.co.uk At least 85 separate sharia "courts" are now openly functioning in Britain, almost 20 times as many as previously believed, a report by Civitas claims.   A study ... Read more..

Video: quizzed by police for criticising ‘gay rights’

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute  The 2005 story of Joe and Helen Roberts - an elderly Christian couple from Lancashire who were interrogated by police because they criticised a 'gay rights' project ... Read more..

Is a New Anglican Communion in the Making?

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) | Comments Off

By David W Virtue, Virtueonline The pieces of the Anglican puzzle are beginning to fall into place and the puzzle is beginning to take shape - for many, a new shape ... Read more..

The strange, unexplored overlap between homosexuality and fascism

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Culture, Freedom Of Speech, From Lisa's Lookout, News | Comments Off

Many of the leading European fascists of the past thirty years have been gay. Progressive gay people like me shouldn't ignore this. By Johann Hari  10,000 gay people were slaughtered ... Read more..

Archbishop Duncan shepherds Episcopal spinoff

Monday, June 29th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, TEC | Comments Off

By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In a Texas cathedral where the liturgical nuances of Anglo-Catholicism mingled with the joyous shouts of Pentecostalism, Archbishop-elect Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh called together a body ... Read more..

WHAT WILL THE BRITISH STATE DO ABOUT THE BIBLE?

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Homosexuality, Politics, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Julian Mann, cranmercurate.blogspot The legality of the Bible in English, at least in uncensored form, is now at its most precarious since the reign of Mary I (1553-1558). Under the reign ... Read more..

Bishop opposes rushed constitutional reform plan

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Politics | Comments Off

By Adrian Hall, Religious Intelligence The Bishop of Durham has strongly criticised Government plans to "rush" ahead with constitutional changes to “distract” attention from other problems. Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week ... Read more..

Doctors want right to talk faith

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From BBC News Doctors are demanding that NHS staff be given a right to discuss spiritual issues with patients as well as being allowed to offer to pray for them. Medics will tell ... Read more..

Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical Bishops back UK launch of Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (UK and Ireland)

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Issued by the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (UK) 28 June 2009 FIVE English Bishops are to take part in the launch of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans in London on ... Read more..

Mother, May I? Helping Moms Back Off So Dads Can Be Dads

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

Wall Street Journal Sue Shellenbarger The benefits of having a positive, involved father are well-documented by decades of research.  Now, scholars are focusing their microscopes on an obstacle to fathers' involvement: "gatekeeping" by ... Read more..

Team of Researchers Blames Children’s Films for Perpetuating “Heteronormativity”

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

 By Kathleen Gilbert  `Lifesite' Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children's films -- such as the Little Mermaid ... Read more..

+ David Anderson’s Weekly Update

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, Culture, News, Secularism, TEC | Comments Off

The United States Senate is apparently having hearings on Senate Bill S909, which is also called the Matthew Shepherd bill after the homosexual young man who was murdered some years ... Read more..

Five Myths on Fathers and Family

Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, News | Comments Off

National Review Online W. Bradford Wilcox With Father's Day almost upon us, expect a host of media stories on men and family life. Some will do a good job of capturing the ... Read more..

Greetings to ACNA from Peru

Friday, June 26th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America | Comments Off

From theBishop's Blog The Diocese of Peru, its Bishop, Clergy and People, joyfully greet the Anglican Church in North America, its Archbishop Robert Duncan, its Dioceses, Bishops, Clergy and People, and ... Read more..