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Archive for September, 2010

GOP ‘Pledge to America’ Gives Nod to Social Issues

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

Catherine Snow for Citizen Link   Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled today “A Pledge to America” – a reform-driven – and quite possibly a governing – agenda designed to ... Read more..

Oxford Union offers members sex shop discount

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

The Christian Institute   The prestigious Oxford Union debating society is offering its members a ten per cent discount at a local sex shop. The Oxford Union, which is open to students ... Read more..

Jihadist invasion in Seattle

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

D.C. Innes for World Magazine   [image:  downtown Seattle, Space Needle centre left] America is under attack from jihadist verbal predator drones. At least one American citizen has lost her life, and ... Read more..

CCFON: NOT ASHAMED!

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

We write with news of an exciting initiative being launched today, led by Christian Concern for our Nation.   The ‘NOT ASHAMED’ campaign seeks to help Christians across the UK stand up ... Read more..

The Forgotten Clauses of the Magna Carta

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

Based on original article by Bojidar Marinov    Hat-tip:  Alex MJP-Alexander   ...Far from being a generally political or legal document, the Carta was a Christian document first, and then everything else...   [From the opening ... Read more..

Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis by Charles Raven

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

Shadow Gospel: Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis by Charles Raven “There have been other discussions of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s theology, but this is the first serious attempt to ... Read more..

Andrew Comiskey: The Whole Gospel for Gays

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

Hat-tip: Phelim McIntyre What is the good news for the homosexual in the American Church today? In our efforts to reach the lost, have we lost the liberating power of the Gospel? I do ... Read more..

Dear Archbishop – there is no incontrovertible evidence that gays are born that way

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

The Times reports on its front page today " that the Archbishop of Canterbury has declared that he has “no problem” with homosexuals being bishops, in his first explicit statement ... Read more..

Memo to Hawking: There’s Still Room for God – Neither Kant nor Einstein thought physics explained everything

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Roger Scruton for the Wall Street Journal   How did the universe begin? Some think the question has no answer—that it lies beyond the limits of human reason. Others think the question ... Read more..

Lichfield Diocese welcomes jail sentence for church lead thiefs

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Charlie Boyd for Christian Today   The Diocese of Lichfield has welcomed the sentencing of three men found guilty of stealing lead from the roof of Stoke Minster.   Nikoladus Janouicius, 23, Mykolas Serdiucenko,18, ... Read more..

Church schools get chance to shine – launch of national awards

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Church of England website   Church schools across the country are being invited to showcase examples of how they help foster strong community relations with the launch of the Church School ... Read more..

MU criticises an increase in sexualisation of children

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Rebecca Paveley for The Church Times   CHILDREN in the UK are exposed to too much sex and violence on tele­vision before the watershed, a new report from the Mothers’ Union (MU), ... Read more..

Sayeeda Warsi: The importance of faith to life in Britain

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Conservative Party Website I am having a divine week. First, I celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr. Last night I was at dinner with the Chief Rabbi, who has just marked the Jewish New Year. ... Read more..

Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her “Wife”

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman for Life Site News   COPENHAGEN, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leader of a Faroe Islands political party took a stand in favor of sexual morality on ... Read more..

Catholic Marriages Plummet in Britain

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Hilary White for Life Site News   LONDON, September 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the lead-up to the pope’s visit, the Catholic bishops have striven to create a positive spin on ... Read more..

Ugandan Ethics Minister to Porn Dealers: ‘Your Days are Numbered’

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman for Life Site News   KAMPALA, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Ugandan government has announced a new legislative initiative to widen the definition of pornography and to ... Read more..

Study: Mental Health Deteriorates With Increased Television

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski for Life Site News LONDON, UK, September 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new study has found that watching more than 4 hours of TV a day has ... Read more..

Stop Harvesting Organs after ‘Cardiac Death,’ Say MDs

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Patrick B. Craine for Life Site News   CALGARY, Alberta, September 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of doctors have called on the medical community to cease harvesting organs from patients ... Read more..

New Archbishop of Seattle: “To be Catholic Means to be Pro-Life”

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By John-Henry Westen for Life Site News   WASHINGTON, DC, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This morning Pope Benedict XVI announced the appointment of Bishop James Peter Sartain of Joliet in Illinois, ... Read more..

Jerusalem Must Fund Homosexual Community: Israeli Supreme Court

Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski for Life Site News   JERUSALEM, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Israeli Supreme Court judges ruled this week that Jerusalem discriminated against the city's homosexual community by refusing ... Read more..