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Archive for August, 2009

UN Committee Asserts Special Rights for “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”

Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Gender, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Susan Yoshihara of C-Fam We report today on a radical new interpretation by a UN committee of a major human rights treaty to include transsexual, transgender, and "intersex" rights. ... Read more..

Why Marriage Matters

Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg The recent National Marriage breakfast in Canberra was a great success, with some 500 people in attendance. But if you simply relied on the mainstream media, you would ... Read more..

“What’s wrong with sex before marriage?”

Friday, August 28th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Marriage, Thought | Comments Off

by Amy Orr-Ewing Amy Orr-Ewing is an evangelist and apologist and is the Training Director of the Zacharias Trust. Amy lectures at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. How on earth can ... Read more..

A Summary of the State of the Anglican Church in the USA and Canada

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Anglican Communion, Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), News, TEC | Comments Off

By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org August 26, 2009 A number of clergy and laity have written to VOL requesting a summary of the state of the Anglican Church in the U.S. and Canada ... Read more..

What is an Evangelical?

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Church of England, Faith | Comments Off

By John Richardson, The Ugley Vicar (Ed: The weekend after next, I'll be in Northern Ireland where I've been asked to give some talks on evangelical identity. If you're going to ... Read more..

Family breakdown damaging children, say Tories

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Politics | Comments Off

By Tom Whitehead, Telegraph Family breakdown and the devaluation of marriage has led to a generation of children with no concept of right and wrong, the Tories have warned.   Youngsters have ... Read more..

Radical, Moderate God

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Theology | Comments Off

An interesting human ability is in our grasp to adjust to new developments and then accept it as normal. So after we get over our amazement that Jesus would condescend ... Read more..

Brian Mclaren celebrates Ramadan—and, yes, the Syrophonecian woman teaches Jesus not to be a bigot

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Matt Kennedy, Stand Firm I've had my suspicions that the "Emerging Church" movement is an 815 plot to stifle the vigor of evangelicalism by introducing the sterile, enervating bacillus of ... Read more..

UNESCO/UNFPA Report calls for Explicit Sex Ed for All World’s Children over Five

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News A UN agency has issued a report calling for all children in all countries to be taught about sex, "reproductive" and "gender" issues.  United Nations Economic, ... Read more..

The death of ecumenism

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

From The Examiner “Ecumenism” has been the driving force in relations between the Catholic Church, those in Protestant communities, and those of other faiths for the past half-century. However, due to ... Read more..

Police ‘gay social events’ prompt priority concerns

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Critics have questioned the priorities of the police following special events held for gay people and transsexuals. A gathering was recently held at the headquarters of Central Scotland ... Read more..

COURT RULES THAT ‘SEXUAL ORIENTATION’ LAWS INCLUDE FORMER HOMOSEXUALS

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality, News, Social justice | Comments Off

by Regina Griggs - August 25, 2009 Washington, D.C. - In a precedent setting case, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia has ruled that former homosexuals are a ... Read more..

First New Bishop for the Anglican Church in North America

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Forward In Faith | Comments Off

From Forward in Faith Bishop Jack Leo Iker writes: It was my joy and privilege on Saturday, Aug. 22, to share in the consecration of the Rt. Rev. William H. Ilgenfritz, the ... Read more..

Scottish NHS pays out £1.5m for sex changes

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The NHS in Scotland has spent more than £1.5 million over the last five years on sex change operations for transsexuals, it has been revealed. More than 100 ... Read more..

‘Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists…’

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Activism, Gay Marriage, Political Correctness, Social justice, social action | Comments Off

Revealing your conservative leanings can be tricky, and sometimes it's easier just to keep quiet.  One of Stein's conservative acquaintances, for example, didn't want his name used in the book.  ... Read more..

‘In the Womb’ is Now on the Net: Amazing 4-D Footage of Growing Baby

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Patrick Craine, LifeSite News The two-hour National Geographic documentary 'In the Womb' is now available on YouTube in 9 parts.  Originally aired in 2005, the documentary used revolutionary techniques in ... Read more..

President Obama versus Cardinal Rigali: Who is telling the truth about abortion funding?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

President Obama is 'Fabricating' --- Not Cardinal Rigali and the Catholic Bishops --- About Abortion Runding in Health Care Plan 20 August 2009  Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief (CNSNews.com) - President Barack ... Read more..

Europe: God is Not Finished Yet

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Culture, Secularism | Comments Off

Bill Muehlenberg There are plenty of ways one can assess the health or otherwise of a nation, or people, or continent. There are numerous measures: economic, social, political, ideological, cultural, demographic, ... Read more..

A View from Scotland’s Next-Door Neighbor

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

By N T Wright, for Washington Post Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber last week so he could die at home in Libya. "Our beliefs dictate that justice be served, ... Read more..

Supporter Event for CCFON (Christian Concern For Our Nation)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Owen and Eunice Johns found the support of CCFON invaluable in their fight for righteousness and the right for Christian civil liberty. CCFON has enabled and empowered the Johns to ... Read more..