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Marriage, the key to a better life: Study finds tying the knot means improved health and longer life expectancy
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off
By Jenny Hope, Mailonline Marriage cheers you up, improves your diet and helps you live longer, researchers say. It brings better mental and physical health, reducing the chance of premature death by ... Read more..Letter to Church Times (unpublished) on therapeutic help for unwanted same-sex attraction
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off
From Michael Davidson, PhD, Core Issues Trust Sir, I take exception to the uncritical and factually incorrect information propagated by your article “Counsellor Asks for Police Investigation” on Friday 21 January 2011. ... Read more..Euthanasia bills have been defeated in Canada, Australia, the US, Scotland, Israel and France all in the last twelve months
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off
By Peter Saunders, Christian Medical Fellowship Last November I reported on the overwhelming defeat in the Scottish Parliament of Margo Macdonald’s End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill by the margin of ... Read more..Zealots try to ruin Christian hoteliers with internet lies
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
By Eleanor Harding, Mailonline Standing up for their beliefs has already brought them a hefty fine, a court battle and a string of abusive phone calls. Now it could cost Christian hoteliers ... Read more..Lawyers explain how, post-Ordinariate, life goes on
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates, Church of England | Comments Off
By Glyn Paflin, Church Times THE General Synod’s Legal Office and the Provincial Registrars have published a document of questions and answers concerning the Roman Catholic Ordinariate (GS Misc 979). “It is ... Read more..Canadian Blood Services seeks end to gay donor ban
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Medical Ethics | Comments Off
By Rebecca Millette, LifeSite News A spokesperson for the Canadian Blood Services (CBS), the federal blood donor agency, told the Toronto Star yesterday that the lifetime ban on homosexual men donating ... Read more..Study finds that women who have abortions are more likely to seek psychiatric help
Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News A new study financed by the pro-abortion Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has found that women in Denmark who have abortions are far more likely to ... Read more..The Dublin ‘Meeting’
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion, Primates Meeting | Comments Off
From the ACI [...] Despite claims that the Anglican Communion has around “80 million” members, one must take account of the fact that a stated membership of 25 million in the ... Read more..Primates’ Meeting – Briefing #2
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion, Primates Meeting | Comments Off
From ACNS Day 3 On Day three of the meeting, Primates of the Anglican Communion began to more closely consider ‘primacy’. In small groups they discussed their understanding and experience of the ... Read more..Practising Muslims will very soon overtake weekly churchgoers in Britain
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Islam | Comments Off
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph Only a third of churchgoers actively practise their faith, as opposed to 80 per cent of Muslims, according to new research by the Office of National Statistics ... Read more..Channel 4’s ‘The joy of teen sex’: Where to begin?
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, News, Sex education, sex | Comments Off
This latest series is problematic for various reasons but I focus here on three. And though there is a bit of good material, much is both insidious and alarming. Given its trendy but respectable image, it will ... Read more..Christians ‘less devout’ than Muslims in Britain
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Faith | Comments Off
By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Just one in three churchgoers “actively practises” their faith compared with more than two-thirds of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. Christians are also less likely to say that ... Read more..Church volunteer status saved by court decision
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From The Christian Institute Voluntary Sunday school teachers, church elders, deacons, prayer group leaders and all other church volunteers have been saved from an avalanche of equality diktats following an important ... Read more..Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Ordinariates | Comments Off
By Bishop Edwin Barnes, The Anglo Catholic With so many clergy and lay people leaving the Church of England for the Ordinariate, it is not surprising that on either hand there ... Read more..Where are last year’s watchdogs of youthful innocence?
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Media, youth culture | Comments Off
By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet Does anyone remember last year’s uproar over clerical sexual abuse of minors? Or the last lot of breast-beating over teenage pregnancy? If your answers were, How could ... Read more..The Moral Maze
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Roll Of Honour | Comments Off
The conflict between religious belief and human rights law is debated here Watch introduction here Read more..DUBLIN: Rowan Williams will announce new Relief Alliance to Deflect Theological Crisis in the Anglican Communion
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Primates Meeting | Comments Off
by David Virtue in Dublin, VOL At a meeting of global archbishops in Dublin, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams is expected to announce the formation of a new social activist ... Read more..Abortion is the euthanasia lobby’s road-map
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By John Smeaton, SPUC Monday's Independent newspaper featured an interview with Dr Ann McPherson, who is a spokesman and activist for the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) (now all-too-conveniently repackaged as "Dignity ... Read more..The emergence of the Gay Mafia
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
From Cranmer Following the discrimination conviction against Christian B&B proprietors Peter and Hazelmary Bull, another case is now being brought to the courts. In March 2010, Michael Black and John Morgan were ... Read more..Second B&B owner sued for turning gay couple away
Thursday, January 27th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Religious Liberty | Comments Off
by Martin Evans, Telegraph A gay couple, turned away from a bed and breakfast, after the owner told them it was against her Christian convictions to let them share a bed, ... Read more..