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The Manhattan Declaration
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Bill Muehlenberg All around the Western world the Christian church is under attack, and along with it, the West’s Judeo-Christian heritage. It is not just a specific faith which is ... Read more..The puzzle of human dignity
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off
By Margaret Somerville, Mercartornet Both sides of the euthanasia debate claim to be advancing the cause of human dignity. Whom should we believe? Euthanasia advocates argue respect for human dignity requires that ... Read more..Church of England set to lose a tenth of its clergy in five years
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off
By Ruth Gledhill and Tim Glanfield, Timesonline The Church of England is facing the loss of as many as one in ten paid clergy in the next five years and internal ... Read more..International Pressure on Uganda to Accept Homosexuality Caused Over-the-Top Sanctions: Christian Activist
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Gay Activism | Comments Off
By John Henry Westen, LifeSite News KAMPALA, Uganda, November 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - While a proposed and much-criticized anti-homosexuality law in Uganda is definitely too harsh, the law comes as a ... Read more..A World in Waiting – Advent Course from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
A World in Waiting - Advent hope in an economic crisis Following the global financial crisis over the past year, hope is in short supply and needs to be rebuilt. ... Read more..The Manhattan Declaration
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Manhatten Declaration | Comments Off
From Cranmer Perhaps, just perhaps, this declaration might one day be ranked with the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, or at least raise Manhattan to the equivalent historic significance ... Read more..Vancouver’s James Packer leads battle against Satan
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada, Apologetics, Theology | Comments Off
By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun One of the most influential evangelical theologians in North America lives in Vancouver. Unknown to many Canadians, James (J.I.) Packer, 83, has for 50 years led ... Read more..New lawsuits face Church in USA
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The Diocese of Tennessee on Oct 30 filed suit against St Andrew’s Church in West Nashville, asking a state court to grant it control of the ... Read more..Bishops prepare to receive Anglicans
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates | Comments Off
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald The bishops of England and Wales have set up a commission to prepare the ground for an exodus of possibly thousands of disaffected Anglicans into the ... Read more..Court rules church properties remain with diocese of New Westminster
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada, Anglican Network in Canada | Comments Off
From Anglican Journal The Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled yesterday that the Anglican Church of Canada’s diocese of New Westminster retains possession of four church properties worth an estimated $20 ... Read more..Anglo-Catholic critique of Rowan Williams – and the Ordinariate scheme
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph Fr John Hunwicke SSC, priest-in-charge of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and a distinguished Anglican thinker, has produced a compelling analysis of The ... Read more..Mass child sex abuse: ‘the structures and rules of the Catholic Church facilitated the cover-up’
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off
From Cranmer (Clip) The Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin covered a period from 1975 to 2004. The scrutiny of just these past 30 years has ... Read more..Faith schools ’strong on community cohesion’
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Church of England, Education | Comments Off
From BBC News Secondary schools run by faith groups are better than non-religious schools at building community relations, research in England suggests. A study funded by the Church of England found faith ... Read more..The Islamic Law of Apostasy
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Islam, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From the Barnabas Fund (Hat Tip: Christian Quoter) The Islamic Law of Apostasy: join our campaign for its abolition Throughout 2009 Barnabas Fund has been running a campaign for the abolition ... Read more..Interview with Young Pro-Life Counselor Threatened with Knife to Throat
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
`LifeSiteNews’ `John-Henry Westen’ DULUTH, MN, November 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than two months after the gunning down of pro-life activist Jim Pouillon in September, a young pro-life activist has had ... Read more..Over 150,000 Sign Manhattan Declaration in Less than a Week
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
`LifeSiteNews’ ` John Jalsevac’ November 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The unprecedented pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious freedom Manhattan Declaration, unveiled in a press conference last Friday, has already been signed by over ... Read more..What next for the West?
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
Recently I have been revisiting Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence, and have been struck by the importance of his definition of decadence for what we now see happening in ... Read more..Don’t hide your faith at Christmas, says Bishop
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
`The Christian Institute’ The Bishop of Lichfield has said that Christians “should not be intimidated” into putting away crosses and crib figures at Christmas. The Bishop, the Rt Revd Jonathan Gledhill, used ... Read more..Tories to make tackling 24-hour drinking priority
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
`The Christian Institute’ Tackling binge drinking and the 24-hour drinking laws would be the top priority for a Conservative Home Office according to Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary. Mr Grayling announced ... Read more..Shocking Abuse Cover-Up by Catholic Church in Dublin Unveiled
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off
`Ruth Gledhill’ `The Times’ From the Irish Times The Commission of Investigation into Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese has concluded that there is “no doubt” that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up by ... Read more..