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Archive for September, 2010

CDC: 20% of Gay Men Have HIV, and Half Are Unaware of Status

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

By Peter J Smith, LifeSite News Nearly half of sexually active homosexual men infected with the virus causing AIDS are unaware that they are carriers of the deadly disease, according to ... Read more..

LINKING YOUTH TO ANCIENT LITURGY

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Posted in Book Of Common Prayer, Children/Family, Church life, youth culture | Comments Off

From The Prayer Book Society Priest's new role introducing ancient text to the young... A charity which campaigns for the retention of traditional church services has appointed a youth officer to encourage ... Read more..

New Zealand Lamb is halal

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

From Cranmer And so, apparently, is most of the lamb and chicken sold at Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and M&S. [,,.]  And it is also going on in the nation’s schools, hospitals, pubs, ... Read more..

Anglican Catholics Rally to protect and preserve Anglican tradition

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Forward In Faith | Comments Off

From Forward in Faith A Statement issued yesterday on behalf of the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, the Bishop of Beverley, the Bishop of Burnley, the Bishop ... Read more..

Rowan Williams’s authority goes up in smoke as he replies ‘Pass’ to a question about future gay bishops

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Damian Thompson, Telegraph From behind the Times’s paywall, the sound of an Archbishop of Canterbury digging a hole for himself so deep that it will soon swallow him up.   Dr Rowan ... Read more..

Catholic primary school set to convert to Islamic faith

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Richard Garner, Independent A Roman Catholic primary school in the heart of an Asian community in Lancashire looks set to become the first in the country to convert to an ... Read more..

Mrs Pankhurst must be spinning in her grave

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Feminism, sex | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips Something strange is happening to the oldest profession. It’s switching off its red light and becoming respectable. To put it another way, girls from comfortable backgrounds are now treating ... Read more..

PLEASE SUPPORT THE NOT ASHAMED CAMPAIGN

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From CCFON CCFON is leading a major new campaign to help Christians across the UK stand together and speak up for Jesus Christ in public life, confident that He is good ... Read more..

Anglican Mainstream Response to Archbishop of Canterbury’s Views on ‘Gay’ Bishops in The Times

Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Times report of September 25 2010 headlines the Archbishop of Canterbury's 'personal support for the consecration of gay bishops in the Church of England'.   What the Archbishop said was ... Read more..

Stand Firm, Rowan Williams and gay bishops

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Ethics, Homosexuality | Comments Off

Orthodox Christians are not opposed homosexual people--ie. people who have a deep compelling life long sexual attraction to others of the same sex--holding episcopal or any other office. So we ... Read more..

Barnabas Fund: Christian missionaries tortured and raped but alive

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off

Six Christian missionaries have been found alive but traumatised after suffering three days of unimaginable torture in Kenya.  Hat-tip:  David Virtue Three men including Mr Y, the leader of a group ... Read more..

Why mothers and fathers play differently

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage, Nature/Nurture | Comments Off

New York Times, Motherlode blog  Hat-tip:  Maggie Gallagher  Lisa Belkin September 2, 2010 Oxytocin has been called "the love hormone" because levels of it rise in women during childbirth and breast-feeding, and ... Read more..

Lasting marriages combine commitment, passion

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

Canada.com  Misty Harris  September 22, 2010  Hat-tip:  Maggie Gallagher Putting the 'hopeless' in hopeless romantics, a new study of more than 1,400 spouses concludes that one of the flimsiest foundations for ... Read more..

Researchers agree Bible may have been right about Red Sea miracle

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

From Jackie at StandFirm  It’s one of the more famous Bible stories. While fleeing from their Egyptian masters, the Israelites reach a dead end at the Red Sea and are almost ... Read more..

A Buried Grief II

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Healing, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

“Every woman—whatever her age, background or sexuality—has a trauma at destroying a pregnancy. A level of humanness is touched. This is a part of her own life. When she destroys ... Read more..

Marcia Segelstein: A Buried Grief

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Healing, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Finally, There Is More Help for Women Hurt by Abortion In 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade, Dr. Julius Fogel, a psychiatrist and obstetrician, wrote in the Washington Post that ... Read more..

Foreign bio-fuel projects ‘undermine ‘African food security

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Frederick Nzwili for ENI Nairobi (ENInews). A Kenyan theologian and ecologist is warning that foreign companies using land in Africa to grow food and bio-fuel crops are undermining food security for ... Read more..

Visit lays a new foundation

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Editorial: The Tablet To say of Pope Benedict XVI that “he came, he saw, he conquered” would be true, even spectacularly so – but still only part of the truth. For ... Read more..

Florida Appeals Court Rejects Homosexual Adoption Ban

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Peter J. Smith for Life Site News   TALLAHASSEE, Florida, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Florida Third District Court of Appeal has ruled that Florida’s 33-year-old law preventing homosexual couples ... Read more..

Pro-Abort Parliament Blasted for Hypocrisy for Outlawing Bullfighting in Spanish Region of Catalonia

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman for Life Site News   BARCELONA, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The socialist dominated legislature of the Spanish region of Catalonia was blasted by a member yesterday for ... Read more..