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By Wendy Wright, Turtle Bay & Beyond
Uganda was the great success story in reducing HIV/AIDS. Now, a member of the generation that benefited worries that Uganda’s “image of reversing the scourge in the early 1990’s has since dissipated.”
Why? Because messages of abstinence and fidelity – the keys to preventing HIV/AIDS – have been abandoned as [...].jpg)
From The Christian Institute
Britain’s best-known legal journalist, Joshua Rozenberg, has previewed the case of Lillian Ladele which is being heard by the European Court of Human Rights next week.
His preview has been published by the Law Society Gazette. You can read his article in full on their website.
He said: “Ladele has a sincere religious objection [...].jpg)
The interim report for the enquiry into the operation of the diocesan child protection policies in the Diocese of Chichester has today been published.
The report was written by Bishop John Gladwin and Chancellor Rupert Bursell QC who were appointed as the Archbishop’s commissaries to carry out the enquiry.
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By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News
A Texas university has determined that “no formal investigation is warranted” against a professor who published a rigorous study this summer finding that children of heterosexual parents fare better in many respects than children of homosexual parents.
The University of Texas at Austin announced this week it would not pursue allegations against [...].jpg)
From BBC News
A "profoundly negative culture" within the Diocese of Chichester led to two decades of child protection failures, a report has concluded.
The inquiry by the Archbishop of Canterbury's office said "fresh and disturbing" aspects of the way abuse claims were handled keep surfacing.
Lambeth Palace has said it will now oversee clergy appointments and child [...]
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , August 31, 2012 John Bunyan John Bunyan had very little schooling . He followed his father in the tinker's trade , and he served in the parliamentary army from1644 to 1647. Bunyan married in 1649 and lived in Elstow until 1655, when his wife died . He then moved to Bedford , and married again in 1659. John Bunyan was received into the Baptist church in Bedford by immersion in 1653. In 1655, Bunyan became a deacon and began preaching , with marked success from the start . In 1658 he was indicted for preaching without a license . The authorities were fairly tolerant of him for a while , and he did not suffer
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , August 31, 2012 Aidan of Lindisfarne the Apostle of Northumbria died 651 was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England . A Christian missionary , he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria . Aidan is the anglified form of the original Old Irish . Áedán The Gospel first came to the northern English in 627, When King Edwin of Northumbria was converted by a mission from Canterbury led by Bishop Paulinus , who established his see at York . Edwin's death in battle in 632 was followed by a severe pagan reaction . A year later , Edwin's exiled nephew Oswald.bmp)
by Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK
Readers may be interested in the news that the Equality and Human Rights Commission has just published research on religion or belief in the workplace and public services. The research, which was carried out for the Commission by London Metropolitan University, found that there were tensions between some religious [...].jpg)
By Albert Mohler
“It is hard to think of any other profession which it is so near to impossible to leave.” That is the judgment of Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world’s most famous living atheist, as he welcomes unbelieving pastors to join the Clergy Project, a group designed to help unbelieving pastors make their way out [...].jpg)
From The Christian Institute
A group of protestors gathered outside Parliament today to demand more free speech by reforming Section 5 of the Public Order Act.
They say the law is being widely misused by police officers to interfere with freedom of expression, and it should be amended.
The Government has promised to look at the issue, but [...].jpg)
By John Richardson
The BBC is reporting that a notary in Sao Paolo, Brazil, has registered the civil union of three people. According to the report, "Public Notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues has said the man and two women should be entitled to family rights."
[...] "But," the BBC continues, "the move has angered some religious groups, [...]
By Hilary White, LifeSite News
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said at a meeting of the French Socialist party on Saturday that he will introduce a bill to create same-sex “marriage” in October. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was expanding on the promises by the new President, François Hollande, made during the Gay Pride festivities in July.
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From The Telegraph
Dozens of British women a year are flying to the United States and paying thousands of pounds to select the sex of their baby, it has emerged.
As gender selection is banned in the UK, couples desperate to balance their family by adding a boy or girl are flying to New York or Los [...]: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Thursday , August 30, 2012 Rumon of Tavistock also known as Ruan , Ronan , and Ruadan , was a brother of Tudwal of . Treguier Tradition says he was educated in Britain probably Wales but that he later accompanied St . Breaca on her return from Ireland to her Cornish homeland . Like Tudgual , he had presumably travelled to Ireland to learn the Holy Scriptures . He is said to have lived in a hermitage on Inis Luaidhe , near Iniscathy , and was eventually raised to the episcopacy . In Cornwall , he founded churches at Ruan Lanihorne on the River Fal Ruan Major Minor near the Lizard Peninsula a defunct chapel in Redruth and at.jpg)
by Oliver Wright, Independent
Nobel peace winner says he won't share platform with 'morally indefensible' former PM
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an international summit because he doesn't want to share a platform with the "morally indefensible" Tony Blair, it emerged yesterday.
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By Trey Dinsdale, Christian Post
[...] Bishop Robinson, who was once married to a woman and is now divorced and remarried to a man, was asked at one point why he should be taken seriously as an advocate for his position when he himself has broken the vow that he took with his former wife. Bishop [...]
By Albert Mohler, The Atlantic
Helen Gurley Brown's influence on American culture shows how important individuals are in affecting major moral changes.
How do you turn the world upside down? In the span of just five decades, the moral and cultural world has been transformed by the sexual revolution. In terms of both public and private impact, [...]
It
looks like the deception continues with the Traditional Protestant
Episcopal Church. Not only does the former denomination use the corrupt
1928 Book of Common Prayer but it also praises the 1549 Book of Common
Prayer rather than the 1552 or the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The 1549
was not a fully reformed prayer book and does not represent Archbishop
Thomas Cranmer's intended : The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , August 29, 2012 Beheading of John the Baptist The biblical account portrays the beheading of Saint John the Baptist by Herod Antipas . According to the Synoptic Gospels , Herod had imprisoned John because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife Phasaelis and unlawfully taking his brother Herod Philip I's wife , Herodias . On Herod's birthday , Herodias' daughter traditionally named Salome danced before the king and his guests . Her dancing pleased Herod so much that in his drunkenness he promised to give her anything she desired , up to half of his kingdom . When the daughter asked her mother what she should: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , August 28, 2012 Augustine of Hippo Aurelius Augustinus , Augustine of Hippo , or Saint Augustine November 13, 354 August 28, 430 was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity , there considered to be one of the church fathers . He framed the concepts of original sin and just . war In Roman Catholicism and the Anglican Communion , he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church , and the patron of the Augustinian religious order . Many Protestants , especially Calvinists , consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and grace . In the
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , August 27, 2012 Fanourios Phanourios the Great Martyr is commemorated on August 27. Fanourios was a Roman soldier and was martyred during one of the persecutions of the pagan era . Various forms of the legend have him as a devout man in constant prayer for his mother , a notorious . sinner Angelos Akotantos from Crete has written a number of the Saint's icons many times depicting him killing a dragon this tradition is found mainly in Crete especially in icons of the 15th century when the Saint is said to have saved many Cretans from certain death from the hands of the invading Ottomans . The original icon is quite: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , August 26, 2012 The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity The . Collect ALMIGHTY and everlasting God , who art always more ready to hear than we to pray , and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid , and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask , but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ , thy Son , our Lord . . Amen The Epistle 2 Corinthians iii . 4. SUCH trust have we through Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves but: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , August 26, 2012 Bregwin of Canterbury Bregowine or Bregwine was a Continental Saxon by birth . The fame of the schools with which the labours of Theodore and Hadrian had enriched England drew Bregwin from his native land . In England , his learning and holiness won for him high esteem and , in AD 759, he was called to occupy the chair of . Augustine Bregwin was a correspondent of St . Lull , Archbishop of Mainz , with whom he became friends while on a visit to Rome . He apparently held a church synod during his archiepiscopate , but little else is known of him . He died on 24th August AD 764. Propers for Bregwin: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , August 25, 2012 Genesius of Rome It seems that the art of mocking the Christian faith is nothing new to those in the acting profession , but it is ironic that one of the first actors to mock Christianity was also a martyr for the faith and became a patron saint to faithful . thespians The biography of Genesius is very unclear with various accounts having him born in different locations within the Roman Empire . What we do know is that he resided at Rome and was the leader of a troupe of actors and comedians , though not a successful . one Genesius was eager to change his fortunes and try to get his star to rise
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , August 25, 2012 Louis IX of France born in 1214 and became a devout Christian and king of France . He attended Mass often , prayed frequently , was given to charity as evidenced in the building of a hospital for the poor and blind and was an impartial judge in the affairs of his . subjects Louis was instrumental in garnering support for the crusades , and he himself helped fight in the battles which responded to the Muslim . invasions He built the beautiful Saint-Chappelle at Paris , where is housed the purported relic of the Crown of Thorns of Christ , which Louis received of Baldwin , the Latin emperor at: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , August 24, 2012 Bartholomew the Apostle was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus . Bartholomew Greek : Βαρθολομαίος , transliterated Bartholomaios comes from the Aramaic bar-Tôlmay תולמי-בר meaning son of Tolmay Ptolemy or son of the furrows perhaps a ploughman Many have , based on this meaning , assumed it was not a given name , but a family . name Though Bartholomew is listed among the Twelve Apostles in the three Synoptic gospels : Matthew , Mark , and Luke , and also appears as one of the witnesses of the Ascension Acts 1:4, 12, 13 each time named in the company of Philip , he is one of the apostles of: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Thursday , August 23, 2012 Lupus of Thessalonica The Martyr Lupus lived at the end of the third century and beginning of the fourth century , and was a faithful servant of the holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica . Being present at the death of his master , he soaked his own clothing with his blood and took a ring from his hand . Lupus destroyed pagan idols , for which he was subjected to persecution by the . pagans Lupus voluntarily delivered himself into the hands of the torturers , and by order of the emperor Maximian Galerius , he was beheaded by the sword . Propers for Lupus of Thessalonica Servant , Soldier: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , August 22, 2012 Sigfrid of Wearmouth Benedictine monk . Spiritual student of Saint Benedict Biscop , and brother monk to Saint Esterwine of Wearmouth and Saint Ceolfrid . Biblical scholar . Co-adjutor abbot of Jarrow Abbey . Abbot in Wearmouth , England in 686. Propers for Sigfrid of Wearmouth Abbot The . Collect O GOD , by whose grace the blessed Sigfrid enkindled with the fire of thy love , became a burning and a shining light in thy Church : Grant that we may be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline and love , and ever walk before thee as children of light through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , August 21, 2012 Maximilian and Bonosus Were soldiers of the Herculean cohort they were standard-bearers , and refused to remove the chrismon monogram of Christ from the standard , as had been ordered by Julian the . Apostate Count Julian , uncle of the emperor , commanded them to replace the chrismon with images of idols , and , upon their refusal , had them tortured and beheaded . Propers for Maximilian and Bonosus of Antioch Soldiers and Martyrs The . Collect Almighty and Everlasting God , who didst enkindle the flame of thy love in the heart of thy holy martyrs Maximilian and Bonosus , Grant to us , thy humble: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , August 20, 2012 Bernard of Clairvaux St . Bernard was born of noble parentage in Burgundy , France , in the castle of Fontaines near Dijon around 1090. Under the care of his pious parents he was sent at an early age to a college at Chatillon , where he was conspicuous for his remarkable piety and spirit of recollection . At the same place he entered upon the studies of theology and Holy Scripture . After the death of his mother , fearing the snares and temptations of the world , he resolved to embrace the newly established and very austere institute of the Cistercian Order , of which he was destined to become the: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , August 19, 2012 The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity The . Collect O GOD , who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace , that we , running the way of thy commandments , may obtain thy gracious promises , and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle 1 Corinthians xv . 1 BRETHREN , I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you , which also ye have received , and wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved , if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you , unless ye have believed in: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , August 19, 2012 Helena of Constantinople Flavia Iulia Helena Augusta , also known as Saint Helena , Saint Helen , Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople ca . 250 ca . 330 she was married to the Roman general Constantius Chlorus , who became emperor of Britain , Gaul , and Spain when Diocletian divided the Empire . In about 272 she bore him a son , Constantine , but in 292 he divorced her in order to cement a political alliance by another . marriage Most historians say that she was born in Drepanum now Helenopolis in Asia Minor but an old tradition asserts that she was born in Britain , in Colchester , and was: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Saturday , August 18, 2012 William Porcher Dubose April 11, 1836-August 18, 1918 was an American Anglican priest and theologian . He spent most of his career as a professor at the University of the South in Sewanee , Tennessee . He is remembered on August 18 on the Episcopal Calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts . His middle name , Porcher , is pronounced as if it were spelled por-shay Dubose descended from Huguenot stock in the midlands of South Carolina and attended Mt . Zion College and then the Citadel where he graduated as ranking cadet in 1855. While at the Citadel , Dubose had a conversion experience that he describes
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , August 17, 2012 Mammes of Caesarea AD 259-275 Born in prison to parents who had been jailed because they were Christian , Mammes became an orphan when his parents were executed . After his parents' death , Mammes was raised by a rich widow named Ammia , who died when Mammes was 15 years . old Mammes was tortured for his faith by the governor of Caesarea and was then sent before the Roman Emperor Aurelian , who tortured him again . The Mammes legend states that an angel then liberated him and ordered him to hide himself on a mountain near . Caesarea Mammes was later thrown to the lions , but managed to make the: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Thursday , August 16, 2012 Roger of Taizé Frère Roger Brother Roger Provence , Switzerland , May 12, 1915 Taizé , August 16, 2005 baptized Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche , also known as Brother Roger , was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community , an ecumenical monastic . community Roger was born the ninth and youngest child of Karl Ulrich Schütz , a Protestant pastor from Bachs in the Zürcher Unterland Zürich Lowlands in Switzerland , and his wife , Amélie Henriette Schütz-Marsauche , a French Protestant woman from . Burgundy From 1937 to 1940, Roger studied Reformed theology in Strasbourg and . Lausanne In 1940, he
: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Wednesday , August 15, 2012 The Blessed Virgin Mary On this date we remember the heavenly birth of St . Mary , the Blessed and Ever Virgin . Theotokos The . Collect O GOD , who hast taken to thyself the blessed Virgin Mary , mother of thine only Son : Grant that we who have been redeemed by his blood may share with her the glory of thine eternal kingdom through the same Jesus Christ our Lord , who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever , one God , world without end . . Amen The Epistle Isaiah 61:7-11. THEREFORE in their land they shall possess a double portion : everlasting joy shall be unto them . For I the: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Tuesday , August 14, 2012 Maximilian Kolbe January 8, 1894–August 14, 1941 also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe . Born as Rajmund Kolbe , was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in . Poland In order to discourage escapes , the camp had a rule that if a man escaped , ten men would be killed in retaliation . In July 1941 a man from Kolbe's bunker escaped . The remaining men of the bunker were led out and ten were selected , including a Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek . When he uttered a cry of dismay , Maximilian stepped: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Monday , August 13, 2012 Jeremy Taylor 1613 13 August 1667 was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell . He is sometimes known as the Shakespeare of Divines for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing . He is remembered in the Church of England's calendar of saints with a Lesser Festival on 13 . August Taylor was educated at The Perse School , Cambridge before going on to Gonville and Caius College , at Cambridge , where he graduated in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud , Archbishop of Canterbury: The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Orthodox Anglican Traditionalist Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Sunday , August 12, 2012 The Tenth Sunday after Trinity The . Collect LET thy merciful ears , O Lord , be open to the prayers of thy humble servants and , that they may obtain their petitions , make them to ask such things as shall please thee through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle 1 Corinthians xii . 1. CONCERNING spiritual gifts , brethren , I would not have you ignorant . Ye know that ye were Gentiles , carried away unto these dumb idols , even as ye were led . Wherefore I give you to understand , that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed : and that no man can say that Jesus is the