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Archive for July, 2010

Church minister to tweet Holy Communion to the faithful

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Church life | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph A church minister is to conduct the first communion service on Twitter, the social networking site. In a modern spin on Christianity's most sacred rite, worshippers are ... Read more..

‘SPARE RIB’ LADY DENOUNCES SEXUAL REVOLUTION

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Julian Mann This first appeared on the US-based orthodox Anglican news service, VirtueOnline: In 1971, the feminist campaigner Rosie Boycott co-founded Spare Rib, the first magazine in Britain devoted to women's ... Read more..

Stages of moral regression

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Culture, Morality, News | Comments Off

By Bruce Atkinson, Ph.D.  Special to virtueonline "Things are getting worse very quickly now. The list of what we are required to approve is growing ever longer. Consider just the domain of ... Read more..

London march protests murder of Pakistani Christians

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in suffering church | Comments Off

By Dibin Samuel, Christian Today Pakistani Christians living in the UK will today hold a peaceful rally to protest the murder of two Christian brothers outside a courthouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, ... Read more..

The backwardness of Catholic-bashing

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Culture, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Kevin Rooney, Spiked Even before the child-abuse scandals it was difficult to find many outside the Catholic Church willing to defend Catholicism. Now it’s impossible. The old-style scoffing at Catholic ... Read more..

Open monogamy

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Mary Rice Hasson, MercatorNet What gays can teach straights about marriage, according to some people. Of all the things that Tom and Tina Average might want for their marriage, one ... Read more..

Hitchens Brothers’ Rift Starts With Religion

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Faith | Comments Off

By Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times interview with Peter Hitchens (Clip)  “I did not have a ‘religious experience,’ ” Mr. Hitchens writes. “Nothing mystical or inexplicable took place — no trance, ... Read more..

New Lesbian Parenting Study Makes Claims Unsupported by the Evidence

Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

A Dean Byrd, PhD, MBA, MPH,  NARTH The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) published byAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers the following conclusion: "Adolescents who have been reared in lesbian-mother ... Read more..

A message from Bishop David Anderson

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in American Anglican Council | Comments Off

From AAC I learned much about life while playing fraternity football in the inter-fraternity league at the University of Maryland many years ago. I learned never to take my eyes off ... Read more..

One in five girls ‘pregnant by the age of 18′

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Laura Clark’                   `Mail’ One in five sexually-active teenage girls has been pregnant by the age of 18, shocking figures have revealed.   The first survey of its kind found that 83 per cent ... Read more..

Argentinean Health Minister in Hot Water Following Attempt to Depenalize Abortions

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Matthew Hoffman’                `LifeSiteNews’ BUENOS AIRES, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Blasted by representatives of Argentina's pro-life majority, and threatened with legal action, Argentinean Health Minister Juan Manzur is distancing himself from ... Read more..

Revealed: More than half of young adults are ‘extreme binge drinkers’

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Sean Poulter’               `Daily Mail’ More than 50 per cent of young adults are 'extreme binge drinkers' with many women viewing it as normal to down more than two bottles of wine ... Read more..

Canadian Politicians Seek Positive Alternatives to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Patrick Craine’                    `LifeSiteNews’ OTTAWA, Ontario, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the sound defeat of a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada’s Parliament this spring, dozens of the ... Read more..

Ofsted warns sex lessons are missing out marriage

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Laura Clark’                    `Daily Mail’ Schools are teaching pupils all they need to know about the biology of sex but place little emphasis on the importance of marriage and loving relationships, Ofsted ... Read more..

Rom-coms have made us ‘happy-ever-after addicts’

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute’   Hollywood romantic comedies give an unrealistic portrayal of relationships and can destroy peoples’ love lives, according to scientists. Researchers concluded that watching countless romantic comedies left couples questioning why ... Read more..

Gitari, Njoya Dares Clerics for ‘Honest’ Debate On New Law

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Alphonce Shiundu’         `AllAfrica’   Nairobi — The clergy supporting the proposed Constitution are spoiling for an intellectual fight with their counterparts in the 'No' camp as the referendum campaigns enter the homestretch.   Speaking ... Read more..

Tories filmed gay shower scene election advert

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute’   The Conservative Party produced an election advert which showed two men in a shower ‘coming out’ as Tory supporters. The advert, one in a series of three, was to ... Read more..

From Lost Boy to Bishop

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Living Church’   The Episcopal Church of Sudan’s Diocese of Aweil has consecrated the Rt. Rev. Abraham Yel Nhial as its first bishop. He was elected on July 16 and consecrated ... Read more..

Church minister to tweet Holy Communion to the faithful:A church minister is to conduct the first communion service on Twitter, the social networking site

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Jonathan Wynne-Jones’          `Telegraph’ In a modern spin on Christianity's most sacred rite, worshippers are being invited to break bread and drink wine or juice in front of their computers as they ... Read more..

Nigerian Primate bolsters CANA

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Living Church’   The primacy of “global mission and evangelism” has been threatened by tensions in the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Nigeria said in an address July 23 while in ... Read more..