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NYC board OKs ground zero mosque
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off
From AP After hours of contentious public comment, a New York City community board voted late Tuesday to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center near ground zero. "It's ... Read more..Jobcentre axes adverts hiring webcam strippers
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`The Christian Institute' A Government-run Jobcentre has been forced to remove adverts recruiting webcam strippers, following a flood of complaints. Last week it emerged that jobseekers were being offered up to £100 ... Read more..More young people falling into destitution, says charity
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`Jenna Lyle’ `Christian Today’ A new report from the Children’s Society warns that increasing numbers of children, young people and their families are falling into destitution. The charity says staff at its ... Read more..Palace of treasures: Archbishop of Canterbury’s exhibition tells Britain’s story
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`Paul Harris’ `Mail’ The death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots... the gloves that King Charles I wore on the scaffold - just a few of the treasures of Lambeth Palace, ... Read more..CLEAR heresy, but what will be done?
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion | Comments Off
By Edward Tomlinson, St Barnabas Blog [...] Today Standfirm has released footage of the ceremony held not in a Cathedral but on a secular stage because the organisers wanted it to ... Read more..Does God exist? He certainly gets a lot of complaints
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Media | Comments Off
By Mark Sweney, Guardian A "There definitely is a God" poster displayed on buses triggered more complaints than any other in 2009 and the third highest of all time, according to ... Read more..Tom Butler has changed his mind…
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Homosexuality | Comments Off
By Vic the Vicar! (Hat Tip: Church Mouse blog) But not his position, going by this morning's Radio Four 'Thought for the Day'. We had Tom Butler speaking of Theresa May ... Read more..The Last Best Hope
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Apologetics, Atheism | Comments Off
By Dennis Prager, Front Page Magazine One of the many beliefs — i.e., non-empirically based doctrines — of the post-Christian West has been that moral progress is the human norm, especially ... Read more..Online record of ‘religious dissenters’ published for first time
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Faith | Comments Off
By Andrew Hough, Telegraph The first tranche of the “Non Conformist Registers” has been put online detailing the hundreds of thousands of people who shook up the established order with alternative ... Read more..Bishop Tom Wright’s Presidential Address to the Diocese of Durham
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, TEC | Comments Off
By Matt Kennedy, Stand Firm Read the whole thing here: ...And that, too, is why recent events in America are placing an ever greater strain on the Anglican Communion. The Archbishop of ... Read more..Response to Bishop Butler’s Thought for the Day
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
The Third Province Movement is appalled at the comments made by the former Bishop of Southwark, the Rt.Rev.Dr.Tom Butler, on 'Thought for the day' this morning,Tuesday 25 May. In his ... Read more..“Changing their minds” – a response to Tom Butler
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Morality | Comments Off
By David Phillis, Church Society We were saddened, but hardly surprised to hear Tom Butler, the former Bishop of Southwark, speaking this morning on Thought for the Day about how he ... Read more..The Tories’ free condom plan won’t just offend Catholics
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in AIDS, Global South | Comments Off
By Alex Singleton, Telegraph There’s no let-up on bad spending ideas coming from the Tory-run Department for International Development (DFID). It is going to spend £2.95 million to give Uganda 45 ... Read more..Is Religious Freedom and Self-Determination in Professional Counseling in Danger?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From Exodus International Of our two hundred and forty Member Agencies out there, around 40 of them are professional counselors. Over the past year or so we have had a great ... Read more..FRAGILE COALITION UNDER THREAT FROM POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off
By Julian Mann The revelation by the new Conservative Home Secretary, Mrs Theresa May, of her conversion to politically correct moral values is highly significant. The Conservatives have long been associated with ... Read more..Advertising abortion
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
From Cranmer Why on earth should this tasteful video be censored from the national airwaves? Perhaps consideration might be given to broadcasting the really gruesome truth after the watershed. Read more..DRAFT BISHOPS AND PRIESTS (CONSECRATION AND ORDINATION OF WOMEN) MEASURE
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops | Comments Off
Hat Tip: Thinking Anglicans The Legal Office at Church House has prepared a document explaining in lay terms the effects of the clauses of the draft measure. See here (pdf) Read more..Marie Stopes TV ad is deceptive and deceitful
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By John Smeaton, SPUC The television advertisement by Marie Stopes International (see below), released this morning via The Guardian newspaper’s website, is deceptive and deceitful. The advertisement says: “If you miss your period, ... Read more..Two female converts in Iran freed
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off
By Michelle A Vu, Christian Post Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh were cleared of apostasy, anti-state activity, and participating in illegal gatherings, reported Elam Ministries, an Iran-focused ministry that has followed the ... Read more..A dubious legacy
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Eugenics, Media, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By Edward Tomlinson, St Barnabas blog Marie Stopes is not somebody whose public life I would want to celebrate- though the Royal Mail delighted in doing precisely this when it placed ... Read more..