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Archive for December, 2009

Barna’s year-end wrap: Relativism on the upswing

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

By Allie Martin, OneNewsNow A new study offering a year-end perspective on the current state of American churches has been released, unveiling a number of interesting finds. Throughout the past year, the ... Read more..

Persecution in North Korea set to worsen in 2010

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty, suffering church | Comments Off

By Jenna Lyle, Christian Today A charity supporting oppressed believers around the world has warned that persecution against Christians is set to worsen in North Korea in 2010. Practising Christianity is currently ... Read more..

Let he who is without sin, cast the first ravioli!

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Ruth Gledhill'       `The Times'   The Rev Tim Jones of York has been drenched a bucketful of spaghetti and ravioli thrown over him by a parishioner angered by his suggestion to newly-released ... Read more..

Catholic education: a church divided

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Ruth Gledhill'       `The Times'   Even in today's litigious society it seems faintly bizarre that a Roman Catholic diocese should pursue one of its own schools over its 'unfair' admissions policy, especially ... Read more..

‘To what extent is Sharia already operating in Britain?’

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Islam, Sharia | Comments Off

The 2009 Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award essay by Douglas Murray, Timesonline In February 2008 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, gave a speech on Islamic law. During the ensuing ... Read more..

Labour performs U-turn on love and marriage ahead of election

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Politics | Comments Off

By Isabel Oakeshott, Timesonline Gordon Brown is preparing to pitch Labour as the party of marriage and the family in an audacious bid for core Tory votes. In a shift in ... Read more..

Before preaching, remember the opium wars

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Social justice | Comments Off

By George Walden, Timesonline Britain is in a poor position to condemn the execution of Akmal Shaikh unless it accepts its history of drug dealing to China Collecting calligraphy in China during ... Read more..

Common Sense and the Covenant

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant | Comments Off

By A S Haley Now that the proposed Anglican Covenant has had time to circulate through the blogosphere, and produce the predictable reactions ranging from "So what?" to "Outrageous, simply outrageous!", ... Read more..

The Covenant and the Fullness of Time

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant | Comments Off

By Peter Carrell for The Living Church In the course of a very long sentence, full of visionary flight and theological ballast, Paul tells us about God’s plan “for the fullness ... Read more..

David Cameron’s church in Second Life

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

`Ruth Gledhill'         `The Times'   Looking for something else on YouTube, I came across this enchanting if slightly spooky video of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, in Second Life. With a general election ... Read more..

Pope knocked down at ‘Midnight’ Mass

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

`Ruth Gledhill'                       `The Times'   The Pope was knocked down by a woman aged just 25 at Midnight Mass but  he carried on, only slightly shaken. Cardinal Etchegaray, 87, however broke a ... Read more..

Charity Roadshow set for launch

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

`The Christian Institute'   The Christian Institute is set to launch a Charity Roadshow to help reassure churches and charities of their rights and freedoms within new charity guidelines.   Full information and booking ... Read more..

Episcopal Incompetence: Bishop Oversees Massive Losses in Western New York

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By Sarah Hey, Stand Firm It's hard really to grasp the weight - the sheer tonnage - of the displays of massive incompetence from Bishop Garrison over the past six years. ... Read more..

Holy Innocents – a slaughter that won’t go away…

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in TEC, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Fr Ed Tomlinson, St Barnabas Blog This week the universal church marked the feast of the Holy Innocents, recalling with horror the brutal murder of tiny children in the wake ... Read more..

Mercartornet’s top ten stories of 2009

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

Here are the ten most popular articles published on MercatorNet in 2009. You may have missed these stories when they were published - check them out now! The Singularity is near By ... Read more..

Prayer Book Society angry as religious names dropped from Letts diaries

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Liturgy, Prayer | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Traditionalists are up in arms after a diary manufacturer dropped a series of historic names for the Sundays before Lent. The Prayer Book Society, whose patron is the ... Read more..

Christian witnessing a no-no on campus

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is appealing a decision to permit a bad speech policy to stand while a lawsuit against Georgia Southern University proceeds.   In March of last year, ... Read more..

Churches urged to sell land to solve rural house crisis

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Rosa Prince, Telegraph Research by the National Housing Federation shows that as many as 10,000 new homes could be built if churches leased or sold off land and buildings to ... Read more..

Rape Rates – Kinsey’s Junk Science & Other Unreported Sex Crimes

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Bisexuality, Homosexuality, Pornography, Sex education | Comments Off

By Judith Reisman, Salvo Magazine The world-famous science historian Thomas Kuhn, in his work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, warned that all bets are off in a science “crisis.” Displacing an ... Read more..

The Top Ten Myths of Marriage

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

From CERC A discussion of the most common misinformation about marriage. 1. Marriage benefits men much more than women. Contrary to earlier and widely publicized reports, recent research finds men and women ... Read more..