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Archive for January, 2010

Pure cynicism

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Roman Catholicism, Sex education | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, MercartorNet Horrors! The next prime minister of Australia might be a man who advocates virginity for young people. Here is this week’s shock-horror story from Australia: the country’s next ... Read more..

Obama’s pro-gay military policy will help Republicans

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Politics | Comments Off

By James Corum, Telegraph (Clip) Setting up gays as a specially protected group will guarantee a mass of complaints – and not just from gay soldiers. If a gay soldier is ... Read more..

Church of England bishops say EU is ‘place for elites’ that needs to ‘reduce bureaucracy’

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Politics | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Senior Church of England bishops have made an unprecedented attack on the European Union, calling it an undemocratic and secretive bureaucracy that fails to understand the challenges ... Read more..

Obituary of Michael Harper, the father of the charismatic movement in the Church of England.

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Orthodoxy | Comments Off

From Timesonline Father Michael Harper was one of the first priests to leave the Church of England for the Eastern Orthodox Church, in protest at the decision to allow women to ... Read more..

Mere Moral Opprobrium? Far More than Marriage Is on Trial

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler Both sides in the federal trial over same-sex marriage have now rested, and the nation awaits the decision of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. Nevertheless, the judge's decision ... Read more..

Iain Duncan Smith on power, alcohol abuse and Britain’s broken society

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, Timesonline He was the Tory leader who didn’t fight the election, the quiet man who never quite made his voice heard. With his pinstripe suits and ... Read more..

Children ‘happier if families get on’

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Pat Ashworth, Church Times FAMILY conflict makes for unhappy children, concludes new research from the Children’s Society and the University of York. Just under 7000 children aged ten to 15 ... Read more..

‘What Can I Possibly Say’ Conference – What is the Problem?

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Education | Comments Off

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Australian Conservative Politician and the Usual Frenzied Reaction to Common Sense

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Marriage, Morality | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg It is perfectly predictable: have a politician from the conservative side of politics make a quite sensible remark about family issues, and the secular left goes absolutely ballistic. ... Read more..

How can I be just? The intellectual incoherence of the West

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Following the (non) reaction to my post about the ‘legality’ of the Iraq war, I wanted to return to the question of law and modern society. This is an area ... Read more..

General Synod: Proposed amendment to ACNA motion

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Church of England | Comments Off

Item 14 Anglican Church in North America (GS 1764A and 1764B) The Rt Revd Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol, is to move as an amendment: Leave out everything after “That this Synod” and ... Read more..

German home schoolers granted asylum in USA

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A Christian family from Germany have been granted political asylum in the US after facing the threat of prison for home schooling their children.   Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, who ... Read more..

Govt to consider allowing gay partnerships in church

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A Government minister says she is “not unsympathetic” to the idea of allowing gay civil partnerships to be held in some churches.   Baroness Thornton was responding to homosexual peer ... Read more..

Police chief: Binge drinking strips women of all dignity

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Binge drinking strips women of their dignity, according to the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Police.   Julia Hodson’s comments come as Labour and the Conservatives battle over how to combat ... Read more..

The Fort Hood report: Why not mention Islam?

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Mark Thomson’      `Time Magazine’        The U.S. military's just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan ... Read more..

Legal loophole allowing sale of adult films to kids closed

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A legal loophole which allowed pornographic and violent films to be sold to children has been closed by the Government’s Video Recordings Act.   The legislation was moved quickly through ... Read more..

Solicitors Journal: Commentary: The DPP’s guidance on assisted suicide is unconstitutional, discriminatory and illegal

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'   www.solicitorsjournal.com/subs_accessinfo.asp Restricted access This page is only accessible to Solicitors Journal subscribers. For information on subscribing to Solicitors Journal click here Alternatively, if you believe there may be a problem with your subscriber details, please ... Read more..

Marriage is good for us. It is time to support it

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Daily Telegraph'   In his interview with us today, Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, expresses himself in typically forthright terms. The Conservatives are pledged to provide ... Read more..

59-year-old woman to be given IVF treatment by a British clinic

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Jo Macfarlane’             `The Daily Mail’   A 59-year-old woman has become the oldest person ever to be offered fertility treatment by a British clinic.   Doctors at the private London Women’s Clinic on Harley ... Read more..

Government has no cure for its binge hangover

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Anjana Anhuja’          `The Times’   Remember back in 2001, it was all about being cool. Everyone was wooing the youth vote. Tony Blair strummed his guitar, headed footballs, wore jeans and let ... Read more..