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Archive for November, 2010

The moral dilemma of Wikileaks

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Internet, News | Comments Off

[...] Now this brings me to the subject of Wikileaks — its rationale, but also its social impact. What is the significance of such a website becoming part of our ... Read more..

Manhattan Declaration – Apple Pulls iPhone App

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Manhatten Declaration | Comments Off

Dear Friends, Some of you may be aware by now that Apple has removed the Manhattan Declaration iPhone/iPad application from the iTunes Store. This happened some time over the Thanksgiving holiday.    The ... Read more..

Angry young girls: Binge-drinking culture ‘creating a generation of aggressive and out-of-control women’

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

By Louise Eccles, Mailonline The number of teenage girls who are physically aggressive and lash out at school and at home has risen at an alarming rate, experts claimed yesterday. More and ... Read more..

Sorry Prof. Hunter, but Anglicanism is not dying

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England, Global South | Comments Off

By Charles Lewis, National Post Last week National Post columnist Ian Hunter predicted a bleak future for the Church of England and Anglicanism in general. Prof. Hunter, a convert to Catholicism, clearly ... Read more..

Happy-clappy Cameron in perfect tune with Stalin

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Civil Liberty, Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By Brendan O'Neill, The First Post What does David Cameron have in common with Joseph Stalin? Not very much, obviously. One was a ruthless dictator who sent so-called anti-social elements to ... Read more..

Further disclosures about Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying raise more questions about transparency and independence

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Peter Saunders, CMF The Commission on 'Assisted Dying', due to be launched on Tuesday 30 November, has attracted some more attention in the press today and we are given additional ... Read more..

Parents to be warned about pornographic sex ed in primary schools

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off

UPDATE:  Meeting cancelled due to adverse weather conditions in Worksop by John Smeaton, SPUC Extracts from a controversial sex education programme will be screened at a public meeting being held in Worksop, ... Read more..

Almost half of all Britons believe in aliens

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

From The Telegraph A poll of 2,000 adults concluded that 44 per cent were convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. Men were more likely to believe with 46 per cent ... Read more..

Tuesday in the first week in Advent, St Andrew the Apostle

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 Posted in Advent | Comments Off

Tues Nov 30 am: Ps 19, 34 pm: 96 Deut. 30:11-14 Romans 10:8b-18 Matthew 4:18-22 FEAST OF SAINT ANDREW, Apostle and Missionary, 1st Century   Very little is actually known about St. Andrew. We do know that he was ... Read more..

Distressing developments put Church of England at risk

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Ian Hunter, National Post [...] The more interesting question that English bookies might ponder is whether there will be anything left of the Church of England when the putative King ... Read more..

BBC interview with Bishop Minns on Gafcon Primates’ Statement

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Global Anglican Future Conference, Primates Meeting | Comments Off

Transcript of Interview with Bishop Minns. A transcript of the following interview with Bishop Kings can be read here Q: Bishop Martyn Minns is from the Anglican Church in North America ... Read more..

Who Needs Marriage? TIME Asked the Question — Do You Have an Answer?

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler “When an institution so central to human experience suddenly changes shape in the space of a generation or two, it’s worth trying to figure out why.” Belinda Luscombe ... Read more..

Away With “Away in the Manger?”

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

Compiled by Ruth Moon, Christianity Today Should churches ban carols with questionable theology? Discussion Starter: Christmas The U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to consider a challenge to a ban on religious carols in public ... Read more..

Lord Falconer launches his sham ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ tomorrow. He will call it ‘independent’. Yeah, right…

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By George Pitcher, Telegraph I have been asked to give evidence to Lord Falconer’s entirely bogus “Commission on Assisted Dying”, which launches itself at the London offices of think-tank Demos tomorrow. ... Read more..

Nominet Plans to Let Police Control UK Internet

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Internet | Comments Off

From Guido Fawkes Nominet – the quasi-private entity which controls the .uk part of the internet - plans to allow the police to take down any website without recourse to the Courts. ... Read more..

Towards a Whole Gospel for Gays: The Mercy that Disciplines

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by Andy Comiskey, Desert Stream Ministries (Part 4 of 4...click here for Parts 1, 2 & 3) ‘This is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of ... Read more..

The state must stop withholding vital information from women considering an abortion

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Nadine Dorries MP, Conservative Home It is an unfortunate fact that the issue of abortion and women’s sexual health has been paralysed and abandoned on the wasteland between political ideology ... Read more..

Christians in the Lords

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in News, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Church Mouse Amongst the latest batch of appointees to the House of Lords this week were a number of Christians.  Amusingly, it was the National Secular Society who were ... Read more..

Beware a new “independent” commission on assisted dying

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC Anyone concerned about the real threat of dying as a result of euthanasia in Britain should read Peter Saunders's informative post about a new "independent" commission on ... Read more..

The happy mind-benders of Number Ten

Monday, November 29th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

by Melanie Phillips, Mailonline Do we actually have a Prime Minister in No 10 — or an understudy for comedian Ken Dodd?  Consider. Britain is groaning under monumental debts. Thousands of ­people ... Read more..