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Archive for April, 2010

Abuse isn’t just a Catholic problem

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Jack Valero, Timesonline When I was growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s sexual abuse of minors by relatives or older friends was not uncommon. But none I ... Read more..

SINGAPORE: Communique says Covenant Adoption Means Lambeth 1:10 Compliance

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Global South | Comments Off

By David W Virtue, VOL TEC & ACoC Sins Haunt Global South Encounter; Glasspool election continues TEC defiance TEC called to repent Some 130 Anglican leaders of the Global South to South Encounter ... Read more..

‘It’s okay to do gay’ – Teachers Development Agency For Schools

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

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The Covenant, Canterbury and Persecution

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Anglican Communion, Church of England, Persecuted church, Political Correctness, TEC | Comments Off

by Chris Sugden, Evangelicals Now, May 2010 The Rev Mary Glasspool, who is living in a same-sex relationship, has received sufficient consents from other Bishops in The Episcopal Church for her ... Read more..

No Brains To Storm

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By David Lindsay The Pope to sponsor an AIDS clinic? The Church already runs more than anyone else, and promotes the only provenly effective strategy against HIV infection. A helpline for abused ... Read more..

The American Family Association today sent the following open letter in support of Rev. Franklin Graham

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

Dear Rev. Graham, We stand with you in both your expressions of love for Muslims and your criticisms of Islam. We at the American Family Association likewise desire that every Muslim ... Read more..

The Foreign Office’s sick attack on the Pope: what did you expect?

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Politics, Pope Benedict, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Damian Thompson, Telegraph A magnificent scoop from my colleague Jonathan Wynne-Jones, who reveals in The Sunday Telegraph that Foreign Office proposals for the Pope’s visit to Britain included suggestions that ... Read more..

Ministers apologise for insult to Pope

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph The Government has apologised to the Pope over official documents that mocked his forthcoming visit to Britain by suggesting he should bless a gay marriage and even ... Read more..

Trumpet blast from the Global South

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Global South | Comments Off

By Bill Bowder, Church Times THE FIVE-DAY meeting of leaders from 20 Anglican provinces of the Global South ended in Singapore on Friday with a call to strengthen the Anglican Covenant ... Read more..

SINGAPORE: Archbishop John Chew: An Anglican Leader For A Time Such As This

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Global South | Comments Off

By David Virtue, VOL Malcolm Muggeridge, the 20th Century's doyen of British journalism, once told me that England chooses its leaders based on what the nation is going through at any ... Read more..

A world-wide criminal conspiracy?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Neil Addison, MercartorNet British barrister Neil Addison has studied the Vatican documents relating to the investigation of complaints of child abuse and come up with some interesting insights about criminal ... Read more..

Labour plans to quash bishops’ say in Lords

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Politics | Comments Off

The Christian Institute Church of England bishops will have a voice but no vote in a reformed House of Lords, under leaked Government plans. In the plans the Government also sets out ... Read more..

Ontario to introduce more explicit sex education in schools

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off

Globe and Mail The days of euphemisms and innuendo in Ontario’s classrooms are numbered, with the province set to roll out a new sex education curriculum next fall built on clear ... Read more..

Irish doctor under fire for limiting fertility practice to married couples

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

From Catholic Culture An Irish doctor is facing possible disciplinary action because he declined to provide fertility treatment for an unmarried couple. Dr. Phil Boyle, who practices in a Catholic hospital, ... Read more..

THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST DETERMINES BAPTISM POLICY

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Julian Mann The most basic Christian credal confession – Jesus Christ is Lord - is the reason why the children of couples who are not heterosexually married should be refused ... Read more..

Credo: Trite music blocks our ears to the divine in the liturgy

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Worship | Comments Off

John Shepherd, Timesonline Our worship enables us to enter another time and another dimension - a realm of experience beyond our ordinary human experience How can we come to an experience of ... Read more..

Passing of Jeremy Mudditt, Paternoster Press

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Jeremy Mudditt, who ran Paternoster Press, a noted and much respected pubilsher of Christian books, died last week. His funeral is in Carlilse Cathedral on Tuesday April 27 at noon.   Read more..

Unity before truth

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Theology | Comments Off

John Shepley on the Anglican Communion's failure to address the problem of how to maintain truth and unity in the face of divergent opinions From New Directions, February 2010 ALHQEIA EAUQRQSEI HUMAS, ... Read more..

Mother’s fury as children as young as EIGHT are being offered free condoms

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

From Mailonline Charity youth workers have been criticised after offering free condoms to children as young as eight who were playing in a park. Angry mother Samantha Fuller says her 13-year-old daughter ... Read more..

Am I the only one who thought the Leaders Debate question about the Pope was a disgrace?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Politics, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

From The Church Mouse Blog The following question was put: Good evening. The Pope has accepted an invitation to make an official state visit to Britain in September at a cost of millions ... Read more..