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Archive for February, 2010

Life and Death Matters: Disability Rights and Incapacity

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'            `London Metropolitan University'   All invited to this symposium which aims to consider issues in end-of-life care and to permit a critical evaluation of healthcare provision for the elderly and incapacitated, ... Read more..

Wilberforce Academy

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'           `Wilberforce Academy'   Calling all future lawyers, politicians, journalists, civil servants, and all who want to make a difference in public life.   21-26 March 2010, Oxford University   Application Deadline: Sunday 21 February   Click here ... Read more..

Awake, Arise O Church!

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'   If we are to transform the legal, social and political landscape of this nation it is critical that we, the church, rise up and take action. Join us for this ... Read more..

Assisted Suicide – Medical Murder

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`John Hayward'     `Jubilee Centre'   Once again assisted suicide is back in the news, after TV presenter Ray Gosling confessed on the BBC's Inside Out programme that he had smothered his lover ... Read more..

Ex-Lap dancer reveals dark truth about clubs

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

 `The Christian Institute'   Girls younger than 18 are pushed to perform sexual acts on men in lap-dancing clubs in order to make the job pay, a former worker says.   In a candid ... Read more..

Women’s ordination and the other elephant

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Women Bishops | Comments Off

By John Richardson In all the recent debates in the Church of England about women’s ordination (in which I include those going back to the eighties and nineties), there have been ... Read more..

From Genesis to Waugh: books offering spiritual uplift

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From Timesonline Church leaders, politicians, aid workers and commentators reveal what they are reading for Lent Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury I’ll be re-reading the Ascent of Mount Carmel by St ... Read more..

Lenten Meditations – Day 5

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Faith, Lent | Comments Off

Mon Feb 22 Ps: am: 41, 52 pm: 44 Gen 37:1-11 1 Cor 1:1-19 Matt 25:31–46 LENT I – Monday of the First Week of Lent LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE WEEK:  Many people scurry for things to give ... Read more..

The CNA: Catholic Church shows ‘robust’ growth in U.S. membership, new report says

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Faith, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

The Catholic Church’s membership in the United States grew at the “robust” rate of about 1.5 percent in 2008, according to National Council of Churches’ (NCC) new 2010 Yearbook of ... Read more..

Beware Progress

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Islam, News | Comments Off

by Mark Durie for WorldMagazine On Dec. 1, 2009, Wafa Sultan and Daniel Pipes debated whether and to what extent a "moderate" Islam is possible. Although both are opponents of Islamic ... Read more..

“Whatever we once were..”

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Culture, Faith, News | Comments Off

by Ken Ham for OneNewsNow One of President Barack Obama's mantras -- one that he has stated many times publicly as well as in his book The Audacity of Hope -- is: "Whatever ... Read more..

Gerry Adams paid £10,000 to present documentary on forgiveness

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph It means that the Sinn Fein president will collect more for the programme than the families of IRA victims have received in compensation for the loss of ... Read more..

Out of the abyss of individualism

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Thought | Comments Off

by Rowan Williams, Guardian We shouldn't leave politics to managers and economics to brokers – or be afraid to reintroduce 'virtue' to public discourse Human beings begin their lives in a state ... Read more..

The Decline of a Once Great Democracy

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By A S Haley Greece, which gave birth to democracy, is now enduring its greatest test. Long ago, no less than four of its greatest philosophers traced out the historical kyklos, ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury Says Christian Zionism Not Part Of Christian Tradition

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

From Eurasia Review The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said that the theology of Christian Zionism has no historical base and is a recent Protestant addition, according to Petra, the Jordanian ... Read more..

The Living Church Foundation: Where’s the Theology?

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Theology | Comments Off

The Rt. Rev. Pierre Whalon, Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, has no vote in whether the Diocese of Los Angeles will consecrate the Rev. ... Read more..

The Role of the ‘Tragic’ in the Leadership of Rowan Williams

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Theology, Thought | Comments Off

By N J A Humphrey, The Living Church In his presidential address to the Church of England’s General Synod in London on Feb. 9, Rowan Williams stated his strongly-held belief that ... Read more..

FT WORTH: San Joaquin Attorney Reviews Latest Appeal on Lawsuit

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley, from VOL:    ISSUE 1 Diocese Has Common Law Right To Withdraw From Association The position of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth headed by Bishop Iker (hereinafter ... Read more..

Archbishop Rowan Williams’s video message to mark the beginning of Lent 2010

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Ministry | Comments Off

Hat Tip: Kendall Harmon     Read more..

Impatience with the Bible–a New Idolatry?

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 Posted in Theology | Comments Off

Archbishop Cranmer saw the Bible as the key not only to the reform of the Church of England but also to its spiritual renewal. By Robin G Jordan (Clip) In the Anglican ... Read more..