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Archive for June, 2009

Pride London to lobby against gay blood ban

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Gay campaigners are set to use this year’s Pride London event to press the National Blood Service to accept blood from men who have engaged in medically ... Read more..

Charities Parliament panel tackles restoring trust in politics

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

From Inspire Magazine The latest Charities Parliament event tackles the MPs’ expenses scandal and asks faith leaders if there is any hope that trust can be restored to national life.   Times columnist, ... Read more..

The Christians’ advocate

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Evangelicals Now Interview with Andrea Minichiello Williams of CCFON Andrea Minichiello Williams works for Christian Concern for Our Nation (CCFON) and the Christian Legal Centre. These organisations are heavily involved in ... Read more..

Why a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity “Hate Crimes” Law Is Bad for You

Saturday, June 20th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Robert A J Gagnon  Part 3: Inroads against personal freedom already made in the United States by homosexual and transsexual political activism Many proponents of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” legislation contend ... Read more..

A Message from Bishop David Anderson

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, TEC | Comments Off

From AAC Dearly beloved in Christ, As I examine the state of The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the weeks left before General Convention 2009, a paraphrase of a question from a previous ... Read more..

The Future of the Anglican Communion

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England | Comments Off

By Paul Perkin Does the Anglican Communion have a future? A senior diocesan bishop is reported as publicly saying on frequent occasions recently, as I’ve heard him say myself: ‘I don’t ... Read more..

Abortion ad backers had vested interest, MPs say

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute   The groups behind plans to allow TV ads for condoms and abortion services make their money from promoting these things, a cross-party group of MPs has pointed ... Read more..

America – Saving Marriage

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

By Michael McManus, Marriage Savers While 90% of America's best jobs require a college degree, 60% of children in city schools don't even graduate from high school. This is not just ... Read more..

New Bishop of Horsham announced

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Church of England, News | Comments Off

Diocese of Chichester An opera-loving Yorkshireman with significant experience in the field of vocations and ministry has been named as the next Bishop of Horsham. The appointment of the Revd Mark Sowerby, ... Read more..

Where All This Persecution is Heading

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Coercion, Religious Liberty, suffering church | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg As a young believer I marvelled at stories of persecuted Christians in the early church. The horrible suffering, torture and death they faced were incredible to learn about. ... Read more..

Government-Run Churches?

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Can It Happen Here? In China, Christians have a choice: Join a government-approved church—which is constantly monitored by the authorities—or join an underground church. Thank heavens things like that ... Read more..

Support for Same-Sex Marriage Plummets

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

by Nima Reza, Citizen Link The number of Americans who support same-sex marriage has plunged over the last few months, according to a new poll.  The CBS News/New York Times study found ... Read more..

Rwanda: Three Bishops Consecrated for American Dioceses

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Global South, News | Comments Off

Grace Mugable, AllAfrica.com Kigali — The Episcopal Church of Rwanda has elected three new Bishops to serve in one of the provinces of the Anglican Church in North America. The election took ... Read more..

BLESSING: A Scriptural and Theological Reflection

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, ACI   In May, 2007 the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada issued a Pastoral Statement on same-sex blessings. At the end of the statement, ... Read more..

Petition and Prayer for Life and Free Speech

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Petitions, Prayer | Comments Off

From ccfon Last week we sent a request to sign up to our petition regarding the effects the Coroners and Justice Bill would have on Christians’ freedom of speech. We also ... Read more..

Federal Civil Rights Commission Warns Hate Crimes Bill Poses “Menace” to Civil Liberties

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Peter J Smith, LifeSite News The US Commission on Civil Rights has now weighed in the hate crimes debate, imploring the Senate to vote against the measure, which would not only ... Read more..

ACNA: Dedicated Website for the Inaugural Assembly

Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, News | Comments Off

News, video, photos and documents from the Inaugural Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America is now available.  The new website is also optimized for web capable cell phones.  “We ... Read more..

Why a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity “Hate Crimes” Law Is Bad for You

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Robert A J Gagnon, PhD Part 2: The irrelevant and inaccurate claim that this bill will not abridge your freedom of speech Proponents of the current “hate crimes” bill before the U.S. Senate ... Read more..

‘How to deal with religious employees’, by gay lobby

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The Government’s equality watchdog has funded a top gay lobby group to advise employers on dealing with the ‘clash’ between sexual orientation and religious liberty rights. Stonewall’s 38-page ... Read more..

So what, if we call the Spirit ‘She’?

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

What does it mean if we call the Spirit ‘She’, as some are now suggesting? One argument seems to be that it doesn’t mean anything —that since God is ‘beyond gender’ ... Read more..