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Archive for June, 2010

Desperate Teenager Doesn’t Want to Be Gay

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

Letter to JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) from 'Neil from Florida' Now that I have completed my counseling program with a JONAH endorsed therapist, I wanted to thank Arthur ... Read more..

The dream of an austere and frugal Britain

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, Politics | Comments Off

By Joanna Bogle, MercatorNet How are Britain's voters going to weather the new government's tough budget if they can't darn socks or make a casserole? Well, Britain’s Coalition Government has produced ... Read more..

Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

Matthew Hanley, First Things The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Though in theory the risk reduction strategies favored by Western governments and aid ... Read more..

Manchester Cathedral celebrates LGBT heritage of the city

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Christopher Brocklebank, Pink News The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Nigel McCulloch, last night welcomed the city's LGBT community to Manchester Cathedral for a service to celebrate their heritage ... Read more..

Woman attempted to sue church for performing same-sex ceremony

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

By Christopher Brocklebank, Pink News In a CNN report on how the issue of same-sex marriage has impacted upon the Christian Church in America, Soledad O'Brien spoke to a woman who ... Read more..

REVOLT OF CATHEDRAL FLOWER LADIES

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Church of England, Political Correctness | Comments Off

By Steve Doughty, Mailonline A 900-year-old cathedral is set to lose its flower displays after the women who arrange them rebelled against demands for criminal record checks. A third of the ... Read more..

These compromised bishops will not fly

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Guardian Comment is Free article: [...] Analysts may detect the intricacies of Rowan Williams' thought and the niceties of John Sentamu's legal background. Yet whether or not it upsets the supporters ... Read more..

Marriage and Divorce: Comments on the Biblical Texts

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Church life, Divorce, Marriage, Morality | Comments Off

H/T:  Sarah @ StandFirm By Stephen F. Noll The texts below are the most important indicators of a consistent biblical teaching on marriage, divorce, and remarriage. The texts are first presented ... Read more..

Good News from ACNA parish in Montgomery, Alabama

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America | Comments Off

ChristchurchXP is celebrating its new home A very special event has been planned for September 12, 2010, when ChristchurchXP will have a dedication and consecration of the new church facilities designed ... Read more..

Marriage and divorce

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Marriage | Comments Off

15 Ways to Predict Divorce How long will your marriage last? Depends on if you smoke, which church you go to, and which state you live in. Anneli Rufus on the ... Read more..

President Obama’s Homosexual Benefits Order Ignores the Law and the Constitution

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Marriage | Comments Off

From FRC Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement in response to the Obama Adminstration's plans to force private employers to extend benefits to homosexual couples under the ... Read more..

Cohabitation and Children Outside Marriage Linked to Higher Probability of Breakups: Aussie Study

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Divorce, Marriage | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News Second marriages are more than 90% more likely to break up than first marriages, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The researchers also found ... Read more..

4 million volunteers forced to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph As many as 4million volunteers have been forced to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks over the past decade, according to a new report, but many are giving ... Read more..

The silent majority

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Political Correctness, Secularism, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Edward Tomlinson If I had a pound for every person, mostly ordained, who confide that they are secretly disturbed by the liberal drift within Anglicanism and question the decisions of ... Read more..

Richard Dawkins interested in setting up atheist ‘free school’

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Children/Family, Education | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph The author of The God Delusion, who has previously described religious education provided by faith schools as a form of child abuse, said he would want pupils ... Read more..

Episcopal Head Likens Anglicans to ‘Teenagers’

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, TEC | Comments Off

By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post U.S. Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori recently described the global Anglican Communion as "a bunch of teenagers growing up and finding their adult identity." "I don't ... Read more..

Earliest known images of apostles discovered under Rome streets

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Nick Squires, Telegraph Scientists used advanced laser technology to remove a hardened crust of dirt and calcium deposits in order to bring to light the brightly coloured 4th century paintings ... Read more..

Lambeth Palace on “the issue of vesture” AKA #mitregate

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Church of England, TEC | Comments Off

From The Lead An American Episcopalian received the response below to his email concerning his "disappointment ... in the manner in which our Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, was treated during ... Read more..

Jurisdiction and a national scheme of provision: Catholic Group in General Synod respond to the Archbishops’ statement

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Women Bishops | Comments Off

24 June 2010 PRESS STATEMENT From the Catholic Group in General Synod Responding to the statement of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York Re. forthcoming women bishops debates The Catholic Group in General ... Read more..

Council of Europe Declaration Seeks to “Regulate” Physician Conscience on Abortion

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Ethics, Medical Ethics, Religious Liberty, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News The “problem of unregulated use of conscientious objection” by doctors who do not wish to commit abortions must be addressed by the European authorities, says a ... Read more..