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Archive for September, 2009

Teenage murderers —going up?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Posted by The Ugley Vicar Readers may recall an item I posted back in June, where I speculated that the commission of murder in the UK was becoming more prevalent amongst ... Read more..

Large Lutheran church votes to break from ELCA

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Schism | Comments Off

The Roanake Times (Hat Tip: Kendall Harmon) One of the largest evangelical Lutheran churches in Western Virginia on Sunday afternoon took the first step to split from the Evangelical Lutheran Church ... Read more..

Disaffected Lutherans Begin ‘Re-visioning’ Lutheranism

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Schism | Comments Off

By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Conservative Lutherans from congregations throughout the country voted on Saturday to begin deciding on whether to go their separate ways from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in ... Read more..

Polish Priest Fined for Comparing Abortion to Holocaust, Saying Abortion is “Killing”

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in News, Take Action!, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

KATOWICE, Poland, September 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a ruling that Church leaders are calling a serious infringement of freedom of speech, a Polish judge has accused the Archdiocese of ... Read more..

BBC raps host for lesbian joke after one complaint

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Censorship, Freedom Of Speech, From Lisa's Lookout, News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute BBC presenter Graham Norton has been reprimanded for reinforcing “potentially offensive stereotypes” after a joke about lesbians attracted one complaint. The BBC’s response invites comparison to the way ... Read more..

New UN Head Says Homosexuality “Totally Unacceptable”

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, News | Comments Off

NEW YORK, September 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview prior to his first address, the UN General Assembly's new president said that homosexuality is "not really acceptable." Ali Abdussalam Treki, ... Read more..

Sex-ed lobby: teach kids sexual pleasure

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, News, Sex education | Comments Off

The Christian Institute Sex education should include teaching children about sexual pleasure in order to cut teenage pregnancies, according to an influential lobby group. The Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group (TPIAG) was ... Read more..

BookTrends: Signature in the Cell

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in News, Thought | Comments Off

by Stephen Meyer When James Watson and Francis Crick elucidated the structure of DNA in 1953, they solved one mystery, but created another. For almost a hundred years after the publication of On ... Read more..

The British police forget what they are for

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips Ten days ago, I happened to be on a panel of ‘talking heads’ at the annual conference of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales. Against a backdrop ... Read more..

Jesus & strippers

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Healing, Pornography, Secularism, Social justice, social action, youth culture | Comments Off

Given the insidious nature of the entire sex industry, including pornography --- read below how even among Christian pastors over half surveyed had viewed pornography in the past year --- the church ... Read more..

Church is ‘cautiously optimistic’ over HIV breakthrough

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

By Anne Thomas, Christian Today The US military announced earlier in the week that a HIV vaccine had cut the infection rate by 30 per cent in a trial with 16,000 ... Read more..

Mother Church Takes a Stand for Life

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By James Gibson, Sanctus The Church of England doesn't get much right these days. From approving female bishops to a comical policy on same sex clergy couples, the Mother Church of ... Read more..

Christian group fearful over new equality tests

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Religious Liberty, justice | Comments Off

By: Paolo Gallini, Religious Intelligence Christians in the UK are being urged to complain about a new public service requirement which they say will effectively silence traditional Christian views on homosexuality. The ... Read more..

Social Engineers Continue Their Crusade

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch For the secular left, social activism is all about “two steps forward, one step back”. That is, they know they can never foist their radical agendas on ... Read more..

Bristol councillor accused of homophobia called to resign

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Catherine A Ross, OfficialWire The Bristol councillor who described an award of lottery funding to a gay charity as a "mistaken and misguided, outrageous waste of money" will be the ... Read more..

You’re not the boss of me now —or are you?

Monday, September 28th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Teaching on the Wisdom literature yesterday, I was struck by how in Proverbs the foundation of the good life is the godly family. The book opens with several chapters addressing ... Read more..

Launch and impact of Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans in South Africa

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) | Comments Off

Chris Sugden  Evangelicals Now  October 2009 “I waited and prayed for this for 15 years” – said Rev David Macgregor, the retired Dean of Pretoria in the Anglican Church of Southern ... Read more..

Truth will out

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

Chris Sugden, Evangelicals Now October 2009 When Gene Robinson was invited to Greenbelt, Anglican Mainstream raised the question whether there would be adequate opportunity for those who had found through obedience ... Read more..

Pope Greeted By 120, 000 Before Mass In Czech City

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in Faith, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

From New York Times BRNO, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Some 120,000 worshippers turned out at an airfield on Sunday for mass led by Pope Benedict as part of his visit aimed ... Read more..

Credo: Holy days are an annual check to mission drift

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Jonathan Sacks, Timesonline One of my favourite contemporary phrases is mission drift. First used by the military, it is what happens when, in pursuit of an objective, people forget what ... Read more..