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Archive for July, 2009

Gay Marriage and the Constitution

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Gay Marriage, Politics | Comments Off

Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, in response to 'Gay Marriage and the Constitution' by David Boies To the Editor: David Boies’ “Gay Marriage and the Constitution” begins with the flawed ... Read more..

Leaving Homosexuality – Exodus International’s President

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by Gary Schneeberger, CitizenLink editor Exodus International president’s new book offers brutal honesty and hard-earned insights that can help all Christians lead lives of holiness.   Alan Chambers’ new book is titled Leaving ... Read more..

Faith charity funding ban may be scrapped

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Plans to exclude Christian charities from receiving public funding unless they promise not to evangelise may be scrapped. A humanist organisation says the Department for Communities and Local ... Read more..

Canterbury reflects on General Convention

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

From Episcopal Life Online Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has offered some reflections on the Episcopal Church's General Convention, which was held July 8-17 in Anaheim, California. Williams, who attended convention for ... Read more..

Experienced Community Paediatrician Dismissed From Adoption Panel Over Christian Views Has Been Reinstated

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Christian Legal Centre A Christian paediatrician, dismissed as a medical adviser because she could not professionally recommend the placement of children with same-sex couples, has been reinstated by Northamptonshire County ... Read more..

Expect Niagara’s nod to same-sex blessings to create some tension, says Archbishop Hiltz

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Same-sex blessings | Comments Off

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal The decision by the diocese of Niagara to offer same-sex blessings as of Sept. 1 is bound to create some tension among bishops, says Archbishop ... Read more..

Cathedral Debriefing – The 76th General Convention

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

The Right Rev. John W. Howe, ACI The 76th General Convention has come and gone. In some ways it was exactly like all of the previous six General Conventions I have ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury attempts to paper over Church schism

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Covenant, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

Ruth Gledhill, timesonline The Archbishop of Canterbury today tried to paper over the cracks as he acknowledged the Anglican church is in schism in all but name. Dr Rowan Williams called ... Read more..

An Open Letter to Members of the Episcopal Church

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From Dermot O'Callaghan in response to the Chicago Consultation document 'Christian Holiness and Human Sexuality' Part I Dear Friends in The Episcopal Church, Some decisions were taken in your recent General Convention in Anaheim, ... Read more..

Reflecting on Rowan’s reflections on General Convention

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Covenant, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

From the Ugley Vicar, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s reflections on the Episcopal Church’s 2009 General Convention, ‘Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future’ make for demanding reading, and not only for their ... Read more..

Church of Uganda seeks $60,000 for food aid for famine-relief

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Archbishop of Uganda’s secretary for International Relations writes: "Uganda is experiencing serious drought and famine in northeastern, northern, and northwestern Uganda. People have now started to die. The government says ... Read more..

Archbishop Rowan and TEC: Two-track communion the way forward

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline The Archbishop of Canterbury has responded to The Episcopal Church's statements  on gay consecrations and same-sex blessings. He doesn't see what happened at GenCon09 as schism, or ... Read more..

Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future: The Archbishop of Canterbury

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Covenant, General Convention, News, TEC | Comments Off

Reflections on the Episcopal Church's 2009 General Convention from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion. 1. 1. No-one could be in any doubt about ... Read more..

Nothing changed at GC2009?

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

by Dr. Michael Howell, Forward in Faith US (H/T Virtueonline)   "I assume that the bishops and deputies who claim that nothing really changed at the 2009 General Convention would absolutely have ... Read more..

The Christianity-free English cathedral

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

By Rod Dreher, Beliefnet Tim Montgomerie blogs about something troubling he observed the other day on our generally excellent tour of the Salisbury cathedral (which, of course, is Anglican): the guide ... Read more..

The Culture of Offendedness?

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

by Albert Mohler A new and unprecedented right is now the central focus of legal, procedural, and cultural concern in many corridors--a supposed right not to be offended. The cultural momentum ... Read more..

Step by step, we’re sleepwalking into barbarism as we blur the boundaries on assisted suicide

Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Mailonline During the past few months, the campaign to permit assisted suicide has been steadily ratcheted up. There has been a stream of stories about people travelling to ... Read more..

Kinsey’s Secret: The Phony Science of the Sexual Revolution

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in Proselytization, Sex education | Comments Off

by Sue Ellin Browder, Inside Catholic It's now more than 50 years since the revolution began. Sexual "liberation" has been endlessly ballyhooed by the national media, promoted in the movies, embraced ... Read more..

The dog that didn’t bark (again)

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

By Stephen Noll After the New Orleans HOB meeting in 2007, I wrote an article titled “The Dog That Didn’t Bark”, referring to the Sherlock Holmes case solved by asking what ... Read more..

Episcopal gay moves risk schism

Sunday, July 26th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, Same-sex blessings, TEC | Comments Off

By the Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, Washington Times Stance could open fissures throughout religious spectrum The Episcopal Church in the United States has done it again. Having marched out of step with ... Read more..