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Same-Sex Marriage and Public Opinion: Spirals, Frames, and the Seinfeld Effect
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Gay Marriage | Comments Off
by Matthew J. Franck and Gwen Brown, The Witherspoon Institute Americans appear to accept same-sex marriage more than they really do, perhaps because they believe it to be more widely accepted ... Read more..Pope to Brave Persecution in UK
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off
By Fr John Flynn, LC As the date for Benedict XVI’s mid-September trip to Scotland and England draws closer, the anti-religious hostility is becoming more intense. Peter Tatchell, a well-known critic of ... Read more..The bitter fruit of a myth
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Michael Kirke, MercatorNet Ireland has been stunned by the revelation that a Catholic priest appears to have been responsible for a terror bombing in which nine people died in 1972. “History ... Read more..ENTEBBE: ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan Reflects on CAPA Bishops’ Conference
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Anglican Communion, Uganda | Comments Off
Exclusive interview with David Virtue, VOL VOL: What is your overall take on this gathering of African Bishops from 12 African nations? DUNCAN: This, the Second All African Bishops Conference has lacked the ... Read more..NZ Denies ’Ex Gay’ Group Charity Status
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off
By Kilian Melloy, Boston Edge The New Zealand arm of "ex gay" group Exodus has lost a bid to gain charity status, because the government there says that being gay is ... Read more..New Bishop of Ely is announced
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off
The next Bishop of Ely will be the Right Revd Stephen Conway, currently the Bishop of Ramsbury in the Diocese of Salisbury. He succeeds the Rt Revd Anthony Russell who ... Read more..Tatchell given standing ovation at Christian festival
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Greenbelt 2010 | Comments Off
How well do you know the real Peter Tatchell: Read here From Ekklesia The gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has received a standing ovation at the Greenbelt Christian festival. Speaking about ... Read more..Blinded by Science 3: Genetic causes?
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Homosexuality, Nature/Nurture | Comments Off
by Phelim McIntyre Looking at comments on the last blog about genes it is interesting to notice that someone states that the "jury is still out" on homosexuality being inborn. Yet ... Read more..The Book of Common Prayer, part 2: Wetting baby’s head
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Book Of Common Prayer, Theology | Comments Off
By Alan Wilson, Guardian Christian life begins with baptism. The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) baptism liturgy used to fill Sunday afternoons up and down the land, and it's still worth ... Read more..THE CONFERENCE STATEMENT OF THE 2ND ALL AFRICA BISHOPS CONFERENCE
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Uganda | Comments Off
From Thinking Anglicans Preamble The second All Africa Bishops Conference, organised by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), met in Entebbe, Uganda, from 23rd to 29th August 2010. Participants included ... Read more..Pope Benedict is coming to “such a wasteland” in Britain
Monday, August 30th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Pope Benedict | Comments Off
By John Smeaton, SPUC In an interview on Zenit, Edmund Adamus, the pastoral affairs director of the Catholic archdiocese of Westminster, provides a compelling analysis of England in the context of ... Read more..Seven Days in Entebbe: a reflection on the All Africa Bishops Conference
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Jan Butter, Anglican Communion Office Director of Communications I flew into Entebbe on Monday morning without map or compass; this was only the second gathering of bishops from across the ... Read more..China: the future of Christianity?
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in China | Comments Off
By Antonio Weiss Ever since Deng Xiaoping's relaxation of the Chinese Communist party's (CCP) suppression of religious practice in the late 1970s, Christianity has flourished in China. This has been an ... Read more..Rwandan House of Bishops Call for Reaffirmation of Jerusalem (GAFCON) Declaration
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By David Virtue, VOL Bishops urge new Conciliar Process. Covenant has failed, they say We write to you with gratitude and humility as we rejoice in our time together in Entebbe, Uganda ... Read more..Rwandan House of Bishops Urge Conciliar Process to Resolve Anglican Crisis
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By David Virtue, VOL Bishops say Covenant has failed The House of Bishops of the Province of Rwanda has sent a dispatch to the All African Bishops Conference (CAPA) meeting in Entebbe ... Read more..ENTEBBE: Two African Anglican Provinces Say Abandoning US Episcopal Church is “Wrong”
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By David Virtue, VOL Two African Anglican Provinces - Central Africa and Southern Africa - say they will not go along with CAPA's call to disassociate itself from the Episcopal Church ... Read more..ENTEBBE, Uganda: CAPA Primates Communiqué
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
Posted By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 29, 2010 1. In a spirit of unity and trust, and in an atmosphere of love the Primates of the Council of Anglican ... Read more..Pope Benedict’s visit: Beleaguered Catholic church struggles against secular tide
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Pope Benedict, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
By Peter Stanford, Guardian [.....] To stand up publicly and be counted as a Catholic in Britain right now can be to invite a tirade, as I found when I accepted ... Read more..‘One in ten church buildings under threat’
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off
By Nigel Bunyan, Telegraph Congregations across the nation must grasp “the big nettle” of selling off places of worship that have become a crippling financial burden, according to a leading bishop ... Read more..Row breaks out over Greenbelt speakers
Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
From Premier Christian Media A row's broken out again over the choice of speakers for this year's Greenbelt Festival. Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell will address three different meetings. The event ... Read more..