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Archive for August, 2009

The Reality of Same-Sex Marriage

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage | Comments Off

from Perpetua of Carthage This is from the advice column from the most recent edition of a free weekly, East Bay Express, that is available at many retail stores and coffee ... Read more..

Marriage Minus Monogamy

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Bisexuality, Children/Family, Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Marriage, Secularism | Comments Off

By Joe Carter, First Things Last week the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America decided to allow gays in “life-long, monogamous” relationships to serve as clergy and professional lay leaders in the ... Read more..

What does “monogamy” mean to different voices in the Same Sex Union Debate?

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Terry Mattingly, Hat Tip Kendall Harmon [There are] ...three basic approaches to the monogamy question. I cannot believe that the debates have grown simpler, rather than more complex. First of all, ... Read more..

Paganism and Witchcraft in Youth Culture

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Secularism | Comments Off

By Crusade, from TFP Mrs. Linda Harvey is the founder of Mission: America, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help in dealing with cultural issues such as feminism, homosexuality, education ... Read more..

On the birthing of Orthodoxies

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Theology | Comments Off

By Gary L'Hommedieu, Virtueonline I just read David Virtue's recent article, "A Summary of the State of the Anglican Church in the USA and Canada", which I found to be enormously ... Read more..

SA: Former Archbishop’s wife sues for support

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Divorce | Comments Off

By Buyekezwa Makwabe, The Times SA The man who filled Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu’s shoes as South Africa’s Anglican archbishop is being sued for maintenance by his wife of 22 years. Two ... Read more..

‘God is calling us to move in this direction’

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Same-sex blessings | Comments Off

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal   Niagara’s nod to same-sex blessings draws mixed reviews   The decision by the diocese of Niagara to offer same-sex blessings as of Sept. 1 has drawn mixed ... Read more..

Be Faithful! Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans South Africa

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) | Comments Off

SEPTEMBER 3 - ST JOHN’S CHURCH Cnr. Church Road & 8th Avenue Walmer Port Elizabeth Doors will open at 08.30. (Regitration will be available at the door). An exhibition with stands from a ... Read more..

“The Disposition Decision” — What to Do With the Embryos?

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler For most Americans, the moral status of the human embryo is a question that seems quite remote. Even as hundreds of thousands of "excess" human embryos are now ... Read more..

All shall be poor

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

By Barbara Kay, Mercartornet How today’s sexual narcissists insist on propagating their dreary values. A hot new must-read book making the rounds is Frenchwoman Corinne Maier's No Kids: Forty Good Reasons Not ... Read more..

Sunday campaigners push for weekend day off

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

By Jenna Lyle, Christian Today Keep Sunday Special have launched the campaign for a Family Day Bill as they mark 15 years since their drive against the passing of the Sunday ... Read more..

Methodists Say No to Lutheran Gay Clergy

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Ecumenism, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Lutheran ministers who are in same-sex relationships will not be allowed to serve as clergy in United Methodist congregations despite the new full communion agreement between ... Read more..

Redeeming Evangelicalism

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

By John Richardson, The Ugley Vicar Where we began I’d like to begin my third talk by making clear that I hold evangelical Christianity in the highest regard. Wherever you find true ... Read more..

Akinola’s Primacy: The Journey So Far

Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Faith, Nigeria | Comments Off

By Gbenga Onayiga, Nigeria Guardian The Beginning Of The Journey Consequent upon the retirement of the 2nd Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Revd J.A. Adetiloye in December ... Read more..

Women’s ordination: not all consequences were positive

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Ordination Of Women | Comments Off

By Alda Marsh Morgan, Episcopal Life Online It is interesting to me, as a theologically educated lay woman and a former lay woman church worker, that the observations of the 35th ... Read more..

Orissa: Thousands still homeless one year on

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Injustice, News, suffering church | Comments Off

by Michelle A Vu, Christian Post A year after the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s democratic history, more than 4,000 Christians are reportedly still stuck in squalid refugee camps, too scared ... Read more..

ECLA: A response to Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Bishop Larry Wohlrabe (Hat Tip: Barbara Gauthier) ...Alas, as I read Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust, I cannot honestly say that we have done our best to plumb the heights and depths ... Read more..

‘I’m not the gay bishop – I’m just the bishop’

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, TEC | Comments Off

By Aida Edemariam, Guardian Gene Robinson's election as the first openly homosexual leader of a diocese in 2003 caused the biggest crisis in Anglican history. So has his appointment left the ... Read more..

AIDS Prevention Expert Publicly Re-Affirms Pope’s Comment on Condoms Was Right

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in AIDS, Sex education | Comments Off

By Patrick Craine, LifeSite News Once again, the director of Harvard's AIDS Prevention Research Project has publicly affirmed that the Pope was right on AIDS and condoms, as Zenit reports. Dr. Edward ... Read more..

Bishop of Rochester: Church of England must do more to counter twin threats of secularism and radical Islam

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Islam, Secularism | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, who ends his time as Bishop of Rochester next week, said the established religion must speak out more to preserve the country’s ... Read more..