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Archive for February, 2010

BreakPoint: The Social Gospel and Eternity

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Politics, Theology | Comments Off

How do we see the issue? Scott Allen and Darrow Miller of Disciple Nations Alliance have been helping the poor around the world for years. In their booklet, The Forest in ... Read more..

Individual General Synod votes on ACNA

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Church of England | Comments Off

Electronic voting results are posted here for your information and analysis.  http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/gensynod/agendas/feb2010/electronicvoting/ev10022010item14.pdf Read more..

Anglicanism, Authority and Ordination

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Ministry, Catholic and Protestant As I outlined in an earlier post, there are within Anglicanism basically two views of ordination, which may roughly be termed the ‘catholic’ and the ‘protestant’. (It ... Read more..

Young mothers reject full time work in favour of kids

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Young mothers are increasingly turning their backs on high profile careers and looking to men as the main breadwinners, according to a leading sociologist.   Geoff Dench, who revealed his ... Read more..

Exhibition opens to celebrate Bristol’s Muslim community

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Bristol 1247'   An exhibition has been launched in Bristol to foster understanding between the city’s Muslims and the wider community – by showing how the city has inspired them and how ... Read more..

Angry response to ‘sex kits for kids’ story

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Gazette Live'   GAZETTELIVE users have responded angrily to kids as young as 13 being handed free condoms and chlamydia testing kits at venues across Teesside.   As reported in the Evening Gazette this ... Read more..

Mother of severely disabled man: protect the vulnerable

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   My son will appear “expendable” if the law on assisted suicide is changed, the mother of a severely disabled man has said.   In an emotional interview with the Daily ... Read more..

Yet another oppressed ‘sexual minority’: LGBT team up with polygamist community

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`C-FAM News'   I thought I should share with the readers of this blog this interesting paper written by Jaime Todd-Gher.   As a lawyer working for the Center for Reproductive Rights, Ms. Gher's ... Read more..

Middle East Christians face uncertain future

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Pacific News'   Christians in the Arab world who played an important role in developing pan-Arab movements in the 1950s and enriched its culture have serious concerns about their future in the ... Read more..

Another Bloody Day for Christians in Mosul

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty, suffering church | Comments Off

Five Family Members Gunned Down; Hundreds Fleeing Violence in City SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- "It was a bloody day yesterday in Mosul," an Iraqi worker of Open ... Read more..

Call to shrink parental choice over sex lessons

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A parent’s right to decide whether their child is ready for sex education should be given to schools instead, a parliamentary committee says.   Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights ... Read more..

More from Pageantmaster on marriage and civil partnerships

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Civil Partnerships, Culture, Gay Activism, Gay Marriage | Comments Off

The ire directed by many of this group at the Church of England and its bishops and in particular the Bishops of Winchester and Chichester is remarkable to see.  Very ... Read more..

France shows it can deal with death?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Andrew Brown'             `The Guardian'   The French state is not famous for sensitivity and tact, but this morning the parliament voted unanimously for a remarkably imaginative measure to make dying easier there. ... Read more..

Faith schools should not have sex lesson freedom

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Humanists and the Lib Dems have both attacked a Government bid to protect the freedom of faith schools to teach sex education in keeping with their beliefs.   Faith schools ... Read more..

CCFON: Act on Assisted Dying

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'   The headlines have been captured recently by the confession of Ray Gosling, a freelance documentary-maker, to smothering to death his homosexual partner, who was suffering from AIDS. The confession was ... Read more..

Lenten Meditations Day 8

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Lent, Prayer | Comments Off

Thur Feb 25 am:  50, 59, 60 pm:  19, 46 Gen 39:1-23 1 Cor 2:14-3:15 Mark 2:1-12 LENT I – LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: The Days of Lent remind us as we enter more deeply is that ... Read more..

Election 2010

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

 `ccfon'   It seems the MPs’ expenses scandal is finally drawing to a close just months before the next General Election.   As a result, over a quarter of MPs have already announced that ... Read more..

Executive Council discusses trends in Episcopal Church membership

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in News, TEC | Comments Off

by Mary Frances Schjonberg Episcopal News Service The Episcopal Church'sExecutive Council heard here Feb. 21 that church membership and Sunday attendance continued to decline in 2008, but also heard a call ... Read more..

Cranmer on abortion

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Cranmer   Hat-tip:  Peter Ould   Ca. 600 abortions occur each day in Britain, leaving one dead and one wounded, while rates continue to rise. If 600 elderly were killed each day, what would our personal, ... Read more..

Gordon Brown: We must resist the call to legalise assisted suicide

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Death as an option and an entitlement would fundamentally change the way we think about mortality, warns Gordon Brown. By Gordon Brown   Telegraph        Hat-tip: Andrea Minichiello Williams Published: 6:27AM GMT 24 ... Read more..