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Archive for October, 2009

A Documentary History of ECUSA’s Constitution

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley There is much litigation going on currently in State courts over the polity of the Episcopal Church. At the same time, there do not appear to be ... Read more..

UK faith schools supported by government

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Education, Faith | Comments Off

By Toby Cohen, Religious Intelligence FAITH SCHOOLS have received a firm endorsement from the Government following the publication of a new report by Ofsted, the office for Standards in Education, Children’s ... Read more..

Vatican issues ‘clarification’ of Anglican plan which does not rule out ordaining married laymen

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Damian Thompson, Telegraph The Vatican today issued a statement about its plans to create a personal Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans which discusses the possibility of ordaining married laymen on a case-by-case ... Read more..

“Free to Live and Love as We See Fit?”

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Political Correctness, Polygamy | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler As Sen. John McCain recently remarked, "elections have consequences." President Barack Obama signed the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act" into law on Thursday, ... Read more..

Credo: religions tell us who we are and what we need to be

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

By Jonathan Sacks, Times Atheists tend to think that religion is about God. Of course it is. But if that is all it is, it would hardly explain religion’s tenacity and ... Read more..

The Thirty-nine Articles and the Church

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

(Ed: In an effort to keep the ball rolling on the subject of Anglicanism as a theological system, I thought I'd reprint the following, which was a talk given to ... Read more..

We must outlaw Political Correctness as ruthlessly as it has trampled on our liberties

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By Gerald Warner, Telegraph The relentless onward march of Political Correctness is fast turning us into a Stalinist society. The PC brigade is faithful to Lenin’s dictum that a crisis is ... Read more..

Why the European Equal Treatment Directive is Creating an Offensive Environment

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Civil Liberty | Comments Off

From Civitas In last week’s positively surreal broadcast of BBC tv’s Question Time, deputy prime minister Jack Straw blathered on about how Parliament had boldly preserved freedom of expression in Britain ... Read more..

Struck off foster carer case set for High Court

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Islam, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute A foster carer who was deregistered because she allowed a Muslim girl, 16, to convert to Christianity has been granted leave by the High Court to challenge ... Read more..

Swiss May be Turning Tide Against Assisted Suicide Free-for-All

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Wesley J Smith, First Things Switzerland, perhaps as much as the Netherlands, illuminates the perils of legalizing and culturally accepting assisted suicide.  The Swiss permit lay assisted suicide–proving that causing ... Read more..

Membership drops in the Episcopal Church

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, Relgious Intelligence Membership and average Sunday attendance in the Episcopal Church have continued their downward spiral, statistics released by the church last week report. Average Sunday attendance for ... Read more..

Rich liberal judges push for inheritance rights for unmarried couples

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

By Ed West, Telegraph The Law Commission, that august judicial body established by the great liberal Lord Scarman, has recommended that unmarried partners be given the same rights as bereaved spouses. The ... Read more..

TWITTERING RELIGIOUS INQUISITION IN BRITAIN

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Julian Mann, Cranmer's Curate Religious zeal is the only explanation for the police questioning of a 67-year-old grandmother after she wrote to her local council objecting to a homosexual parade ... Read more..

Feminism Unfulfilled — Why Are So Many Women Unhappy?

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler "The woman's movement wasn't about happiness." That judgment, attributed to feminist Susan Faludi, seems to be the blunt assessment shared by many other women. As numerous recent studies ... Read more..

Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Create Babies Without Men, Women, or Sexual Relations

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News Researchers announced a scientific breakthrough yesterday in which the progenitor cells to human ova and sperm have been created out of embryonic stem cells. Pro-life commentators ... Read more..

Nicolosi Interview with a Former Gay Activist

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Gay Activism, Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From NARTH In 2007, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi interviewed Michael Glatze for an article posted on the NARTH website. A leader in the gay-activist movement, Michael had just gone public about leaving ... Read more..

Fr Ivan Aquilina’s response to Hans Kung

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

From his blog (Hat Tip: St Barnabas blog) (Clip) The interview that appears on the Guardian (here) with the theologian Hans Kung is very illuminative... ...It is people like Fr Hans Kung that sadden ... Read more..

The struggle for Islam’s soul

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Spectator The tireless Islam scholar and anti-Islamist Dr Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabas Fund has written a must-read article in the Fund’s current newsletter which, if his analysis ... Read more..

‘It will be a little like registering with a new GP and boarding a coach for Walsingham’ – Ebbsfleet

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Glyn Paflin, Church Times “I SUSPECT everyone is feeling fairly be­wildered,” the Bishop of Chichester, Dr John Hind, told the Forward in Faith (FiF) National Assembly in London in his ... Read more..

Pope’s offer provokes mixed reactions among Anglicans

Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Communion, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Bill Bowder, Church Times ANGLICANS are divided over the announcement, last week, by the Vatican that they could form “Per­sonal Ordinariates” under the author­ity of Pope Benedict XVI. Many Anglicans ... Read more..