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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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..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..