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Archive for July, 2009

Reverend quits over gay minister

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

BBC News Scotland A minister has resigned in protest over the appointment of the Church of Scotland's first openly gay minister, BBC Scotland understands. The Reverend Thomas Mackinnon has told his Kilmuir and ... Read more..

Credo: We must guard love in this world of easy pleasures

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Marriage | Comments Off

By Jonathan Sacks, Timesonline One day I was called on to officiate at two funerals. The families involved were old friends of ours, but they lived in different parts of London ... Read more..

URGENT: Respond to EU Equal Treatment Directive Consultation- Deadline 28/07

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From ccfon The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is undertaking a Consultation on the proposed Equal Treatment Directive. The perils of this dangerous Directive are clear and manifest. If implemented in its ... Read more..

Canada: Deep divide over sexuality continues

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada | Comments Off

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal The decision by the diocese of Niagara to offer same-sex blessings has drawn mixed reactions from Anglicans in Canada. Similarly, backlash over the recent decision by ... Read more..

RCN neutral on assisted suicide

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

from BBC News The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its opposition to the concept of helping patients to commit suicide. The college has now adopted a neutral stance, neither supporting nor ... Read more..

Seeing the end of life with peace of mind

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

Letter to The Times from Dr Kathryn Mannix Sir, The debate in these pages reads as though there is only “a good death” or unbearable suffering at the end of life ... Read more..

Q & A with Robert Duncan

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, Christianity Today The archbishop of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) spoke with CT in Bedford, Texas, where conservatives constituted their alternative to the liberal Episcopal ... Read more..

A Message from Bishop David Anderson

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in American Anglican Council, General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

From AAC Beloved in Christ, Repercussions from the Episcopal Church (TEC) General Convention in Anaheim, California continue to reverberate around the USA and the world. Any analysis of TEC's actions requires a ... Read more..

Some See Polyamorous Marriage As the Next Civil Rights Movement

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Marriage, Polygamy | Comments Off

By Susan Donaldson James and Emily Friedman, ABC News Terisa Greenan is madly in love with two different men. The catch is, the men don't even mind. "You get something different from each ... Read more..

Announcement of Massive Christian Rally Draws Angry Responses from the Gay Community

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Christian Newswire CHARLOTTE, July 24    On Saturday, July 25th, at least 1,000 Christians will join together next to Pride Charlotte, the city's annual gay pride event, to conduct their own ... Read more..

Bishops Discuss Paradoxical Votes on Consecrations, Blessings

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

By Douglas LeBlanc, The Living Church As General Convention debated its two most-examined resolutions in July, about ten bishops cast paradoxical votes.   Most of these bishops voted against Resolution D025, which reopens ... Read more..

Bishops hold their nerve as reform of Lords looms again

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Politics | Comments Off

By Bill Bowder, Church Times BISHOPS continue to be hopeful about their future in the House of Lords, the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt, said on Wednesday, after ... Read more..

J I Packer – The Church and Schism

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Schism | Comments Off

From Oak Hill College (H/T ACL Sydney) Against the background of recent events in the Anglican communion, internationally renowned theologian Professor Jim Packer presents his views on "The Church and Schism", ... Read more..

The National Secular Society aren’t secular – they’re atheist bigots

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

By Ed West, Telegraph The National Secular Society are having a fit because the SNP have chosen a member of Opus Dei for the Glasgow North-East by-election. They said: “The concern for ... Read more..

‘Inclusive Church’ on The Episcopal Church’s new resolutions

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

From Inclusive Church Inclusive Church welcomes the clarity of the new resolutions passed at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the USA (TEC) in Anaheim. They accurately and honestly ... Read more..

Ruth Gledhill: Don’t give up on the Church!

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

Ruth Gledhill:  View from Fleet Street  CEN July 17th Just like the Church of my birth, I am inwardly divided.  I’ve always believed in the adage, ‘bloom where you are ... Read more..

Yet more on Greenbelt and the gayification of evagelicalism Part II

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality, Proselytization | Comments Off

From earlier events: 2003 Peter Tatchell Born in Australia in 1952, Peter is best known as a controversial campaigner on issues of sexual freedom and human rights.  Interviewed by Martin Wroe, Peter ... Read more..

Yet more on Greenbelt and the gayification of evangelicalism part I

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout | Comments Off

Yesterday the Church of England Newspaper printed an article which claimed that AM was encouraging a boycott of Greenbelt (GB), and which included various negative responses to the original article I had written.  Caught in ... Read more..

Anti-Semitic attacks increase in the UK

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Anti Semitism | Comments Off

From Cranmer's Blogspot The United Kingdom has seen an unprecedented number of anti-Semitic ‘hate crimes’, with more incidents recorded in just the first half of 2009 than in any previous entire ... Read more..

Template Letter by JONAH Dad for Community Leaders, etc

Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) This letter was written by a JONAH father who is very active in attempting to educate elected officials, teachers, doctors, etc., about unwanted same-sex ... Read more..