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By Dale O'Leary
It has been over 30 years since the first gay[1] men were diagnosed with what would later be called AIDS. Since then over 300,000 men who have sex with men (MSM) have died of AIDS, and 6,000 are expected to die this year and every year for the foreseeable future. In 2008, 17,940 [...]
From Voice4Justice UK
Recently, almost every other day seems to throw up fresh revelations of high profile figures involved in sex abuse. The most recent allegations relate to Sir Cyril Smith, formerly highly respected Liberal MP for Rochdale, with claims going back to the 1960s. ‘Twas ever thus,’ people say, and maybe with justification, but at [...]
By Jonathan Tame, The Jubilee Centre
The woeful troubles at the BBC coincide with its 90th anniversary this week. Shoddy journalism, failure of governance and poor judgment have left the public reputation of the BBC in tatters. More than that, the moral standards of programming seem to keep falling. In the light of this, it's sobering [...]From Evangelical Alliance
Why is it that, the more freedoms we are given, the more laws we seem to need? The Leveson Inquiry and the accompanying public debate has not got to the root of this core problem: you won't improve ethics if you ignore morality. Recommendations on the future of press regulation are evidently needed [...]
Read open letter from The Rev. Prof. Christopher Seitz, The Rev. Dr. Philip Turner and The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner here
Read also some of the comments from Kendall Harmon's blog, including this one by Pageantmaster (an Englishman) :
If I were an Episcopal Church Bishop receiving this letter as an addressee, which thankfully I am not qualified to [...]by Alistair Thompson, The Commentator
The Rotherham Council/UKIP case is just another symptom of the intolerance and contempt displayed by the politically correct towards ordinary people
On Saturday we learnt that two foster carers from Rotherham had the three children they were looking after removed – their crime, membership of the UK Independence Party.
But as our political [...]From The Christian Institute
The British Youth Parliament has rejected campaigning for same-sex marriage, after it came bottom in a vote of priorities for 2013.
The issue received just 22 votes, whereas the most popular campaign, a curriculum to prepare young people for real life, got 154 votes.
Each year, 11 to 18-year-olds from each part [...]By Thomas Rodham, ABC Religion and Ethics
Once upon a time religion was in the world and made the world. Religion made the messy, chaotic world legible to human understanding and amenable to human purposes.
It fixed things in place, like the stars in the sky and the differences between men and women. It ordered the flux [...]by Hilary White, LifeSite News
According to the National Union of Students, university students are supposed to be left-wing, radical feminist, pro-gay and, perhaps most importantly, “pro-choice”—and anyone stepping outside that hardline leftist political template will hear about it. This was the message directed at a new pro-life students’ group, the Alliance of Pro-life Students, at [...]
Affirming Catholicism welcomes the statement issued on the conclusion of the Meeting of the Archbishops’ Council on 27-28 November 2012, and the decision that a process to admit women to the episcopate be restarted at the next meeting of the General Synod in July 2013.
Affirming Catholicism hopes to be closely involved in the discussions [...]by Lizzy Davies, Guardian
A senior body of the Church of England has said attempts to allow women to become bishops should be revived "as a matter of urgency", with fresh proposals debated in the General Synod next year.
The call is a clear sign of concern over the damage that could be done to the church's [...]by David Virtue and Mary Ann Mueller, VOL
Since The Episcopal General Convention passed A049 at last July's General Convention in Indianapolis, the trickle of Episcopal dioceses that have authorized Same Sex Blessings has now become a veritable flood. According to Virtueonline's exhaustive research, 69 domestic dioceses have decided to fully embrace and allow for the [...].jpg)
By George Conger, Anglican Ink
A gathering of national church loyalists has learned that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is backing their move to claim the mantle of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
The presiding bishop's attorney told the 15 Nov 2012 meeting of TEC loyalists the national church had been preparing for the fight with [...]
by Fr Dale Matson, ACNA “For those pushing for women bishops in the Church of England, there is after all only one real theological argument. And it is that the office of priest and the office of bishop are fundamentally united, and that there should not be a class of people ordained to be priests [...]
by George Conger, CEN WOMEN BISHOPS, gay marriage and other innovations of doctrine and discipline will end meaningful Anglican-Orthodox relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) has warned. At a 26 November meeting in Moscow, Ambassador Tim Barrow and second secretary James Ford met with leaders [...]
By Denyse O'Leary, MercatorNet
American universities are discouraging students from expressing controversial views.
considered bastions of intellectual liberty. No more. In Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate liberal atheist Greg Lukianoff, a founder and the current president of the influential Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), says those days are over. The [...]by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
… in the Associated Press Stylebook, anyway. An AP official explains:
”Homophobia especially — it’s just off the mark. It’s ascribing a mental disability to someone, and suggests a knowledge that we don’t have. It seems inaccurate. Instead, we would use something more neutral: anti-gay, or some such, if we had [...].jpg)
By Katherine Weber, Christian Today
Evangelical Christian pastor Rick Warren appeared on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Tuesday to promote the re-release and 10th anniversary of his book, Purpose Driven Life.
During the discussion, Warren was asked to comment on how the minister embraces gay and lesbian friends while opposing same-sex marriage.
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From Christian Concern
Most Britons feel that the decline of marriage is a key cause of social breakdown, according to a new survey.
In a poll of over 1,700 adults commissioned by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), 55 per cent say at least one of their local communities is plagued by broken families, crime and poor [...].jpg)
by George Conger, CEN
WOMEN BISHOPS, gay marriage and other innovations of doctrine and discipline will end meaningful Anglican-Orthodox relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) has warned.
At a 26 November meeting in Moscow, Ambassador Tim Barrow and second secretary James Ford met with leaders of the [...].jpg)
By Timothy Edwards and Pete Myers, Politics.co.uk
The Church of England will almost certainly have women bishops and, despite our theological disagreement, traditionalists such as ourselves have accepted that.
The vote in Synod on November 20th was about how women bishops are going to be introduced, not whether. And the reason why the legislation ultimately didn't get [...]
: 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 , November 29, 2012 Saturninus of Toulouse Born to the third century Roman nobility . Missionary to Gaul , the Pyrenees , and the Iberian peninsula . Worked with Saint Papoul . He converted many , including the farmer now known as Saint Honestus who joined him as a missionary . Imprisoned in Carcassone by the prefect Rufinus , Saturninus and his group were freed by an angel . He became the first bishop of Toulouse in modern France where he teamed with Saint Martial to perform miraculous healings . Converted and baptized Saint Firminus of Amiens . When Saturninus began his work in Toulouse , the local pagan priests
Women Bishops – The Way Ahead The Chairmen of the Catholic Group in General Synod and the conservative Evangelical group Reform, who called for talks to break the deadlock over legislation to enable the consecration of women as bishops, have received acknowledgement of their request from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Canon Simon Killwick [...]
: 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 , November 28, 2012 Kamehameha and Emma of Hawaii King Kamehameha IV and his wife Emma were Christian rulers who encouraged the building of Christian schools and hospitals , and who contributed greatly to the spread of Christianity among the Hawaiian . people The King was worried by the growth of American political influence , directly connected with the work of American missionaries , many of whom openly favored annexation of the islands by the United States . He accordingly invited the Church of England to send missionaries and to establish a presence in Hawaii . While touring England as a prince , he had
By Canon Phil Ashey, AAC In the wake of the narrow defeat of the women bishops measure in the Church of England’s General Synod by six votes in the House of Laity, a torrent of criticism has been unleashed on evangelical and Anglo-Catholic Anglicans who opposed the measure. From the Archbishop of Canterbury, members of [...]
By Peter Hitchens, Mailonline (This is part of a much longer blog post – scroll down a little) […0 But I also know that plenty of my fellow-worshippers take other views. For them, women cannot be truly ordained. I disagree with them, but I understand that they believe this to be hugely important, and that [...]
By Chris Sugden There has been a campaign of disinformation since the synod vote last Tuesday. Ordinary people I have talked with expressed great surprise when they heard our side of the story: that people did not vote against women bishops but against this particular measure. M.P. Frank Field has said that the ‘reformers’ 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 , November 27, 2012 Cungar of Congresbury was traditionally born in Llanwngar in Pembrokshire in the late 5th century . It seems that he should not be identified with St . Cyngar of Llangefni as their feast days are different . The latter was the son of King Gerren Llyngesog of Dumnonia , but Cungar may perhaps be the grandson of King Ceredig Ceredigion named in the Bonedd y Saint as father of Saints Gwynlleu and Cyndeyrn . His father was Prince . Garthog It appears that Cungar left Wales at a young age and crossed the Bristol Channel , settling at Congresbury in Somerset . He apparently turned the surrounding
This piece stand alone, with no need for commentary. Remember, this is a man who was appointed by the institution to a senior position at one of the most important cathedrals in the Church of England. There was this lad at school who got bullied all the time. When he wasn’t being bullied he 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 Monday , November 26, 2012 Peter of Alexandria was Patriarch of Alexandria 300–311 It is believed that Peter was given by his parents to His Holiness Theonas to be brought up as a priest , similarly to the story of Samuel in the Old Testament . He rose through the ranks of holy orders , first becoming a reader , then a deacon , then a priest . On his death bed , Theonas advised the church leaders to choose Peter as his successor , which they . did Peter's time as bishop included the most terrible persecution Christianity was subjected to , that of Roman Emperor Diocletian , which began in 303, and continued intermittently: 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 , November 25, 2012 The Sunday Advent The . Collect STIR up , we beseech thee , O Lord , the wills of thy faithful people that they , plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works , may by thee be plenteously rewarded through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle Jeremiah xxiii . 5. BEHOLD , the days come , saith the LORD , that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch , and a King shall reign and prosper , and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth . In his days Judah shall be saved , and Israel shall dwell safely : and this is his name whereby he shall be called , THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS .
: 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 , November 25, 2012 Catherine of Alexandria was born in Alexandria and raised a pagan , but converted to Christianity in her late teens . It is said that she visited her contemporary , the Roman Emperor Maxentius , and attempted to convince him of the moral error in persecuting Christians . She succeeded in converting his wife , the Empress , and many pagan philosophers whom the Emperor sent to dispute with her , all of whom were subsequently martyred . Upon the failure of the Emperor to win Catherine over , he ordered her to be put in prison and when the people who visited her converted , she was condemned to death
: 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 , November 24, 2012 The Martyrs of Vietnam Between the arrival of the first Portuguese missionary in 1533, through the Dominicans and then the Jesuit missions of the 17th century , the politically inspired persecutions of the 19th century , and the Communist-led terrors of the twentieth , there have been many thousands of Catholics and other Christians murdered for their faith in Vietnam . Some were priests , some nuns or brothers , some lay people some were foreign missionaries , but most were native Vietnamese killed by their own government and . countrymen Record keeping being what it was , and because 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 Friday , November 23, 2012 Clement of Rome the Bishop of Rome from 88 to 99 AD . Also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus , he was the fourth pope , after Anacletus , according to Catholic . tradition Few details are known about Clement's life . According to Tertullian Clement was ordained by Saint Peter and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the latter part of the 1st century . Early church lists place him as the second or third bishop of Rome after Saint Peter , but the meaning of this evidence is unclear , given the lack of evidence for monarchical episcopacy in Rome at so early a : 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 , November 22, 2012 Thanksgiving Day The . Collect O MOST merciful Father , who hast blessed the labours of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the earth We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us , that our land may still yield her increase , to thy glory and our comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle St . James i . 16. DO not err , my beloved brethren . Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above , and cometh down from the Father of lights , with whom is no variableness , neither shadow of turning . 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 , November 22, 2012 Cecelia of Rome A young Roman noble woman of the 2nd century , an only child and convert to . Christianity Cecelia vowed her virginity to God , but her parents married her to Valerian of Trastevere . She was able to convince her husband to be Baptized and he in turn convinced his brother Tiburtius to come to Christ . Though it seems she remained a virgin after their . wedding The two brothers developed a ministry of giving proper burial to martyred Christians . In their turn they were arrested and martyred for their faith . Cecilia buried them at her villa on the Apprian Way , and was arrested
: . 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 , November 22, 2012 C.S . Lewis Clive Staples Lewis Jack Lewis to his friends was a tutor and lecturer at Oxford University , and later Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University . In the judgment of many , he is the most popular and most effective explainer and defender of the Christian faith writing in English in the 20th century . He tried to make a point of avoiding disputes on matters where Christians disagree , and defending those beliefs which they hold in common . His work was valued by many Christians of widely differing backgrounds : Anglican , Baptist , Methodist 
: 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 , November 21, 2012 Presentation of Mary This feast day , while not based on Scriptural fact , but rather pious tradition , deals with the presentation of the Virgin Mary when she was three years old at the Temple in . Jerusalem Tradition also has it that she spent a good deal of time there as a child with other children . Whether this is true or not is not significant . What is important is that Mary was no doubt raised in a Godly home which nurtured her . sanctity May we make the sacrifice of raising our children in God's House , the Church , by having them attend Sunday School and in encouraging their: 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 , November 20, 2012 Edmund the Martyr When the heathen Anglo-Saxons invaded Christian Britain in the 400's , they eventually established seven kingdoms : Essex , Wessex , Sussex East Saxons , West Saxons , and South Saxons Mercia , Northumbria , and East Anglia three kingdoms of the Angles and the Jute kingdom of Kent . The borders between these ancient kingdoms are still borders between regions speaking English with different accents today . Under the influence of missionaries from the Celts and from continental Europe , these peoples became Christian , only to be faced themselves by a wave of heathen . invaders: 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 , November 19, 2012 Elizabeth of Hungary The numerous St . Elizabeth's Hospitals throughout the world are for the most part named , not for the Biblical Elizabeth , the mother of John the Baptist , but for this princess of Hungary . She was concerned for the relief of the poor and the sick , and with her husband's consent she used her dowry money for their . relief During a famine and epidemic in 1226, while her husband was away in Italy , she sold her jewels and established a hospital where she nursed the sick , and opened the royal granaries to feed the hungry . After her husband's death in 1227, her in-laws , who
: 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 , November 18, 2012 The 24th Sunday After Trinity The Collect . O LORD , we beseech thee , absolve thy people from their offences that through thy bountiful goodness we may all be delivered from the bands of those sins , which by our frailty we have committed . Grant this , O heavenly Father , for the sake of Jesus Christ , our blessed Lord and Saviour . . Amen The Epistle Colossians i . 3. WE give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , praying always for you , since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus , and of the love which ye have to all the saints , for the hope which is laid up for you 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 , November 18, 2012 Hilda of Whitby Hilda known in her own century as Hild was the grandniece of King Edwin of Northumbria , see 12 Oct a kingdom of the Angles . She was born in 614 and baptized in 627 when the king and his household became Christians . In 647 she decided to become a nun , and under the direction of Aidan see 31 Aug she established several monasteries . Her last foundation was at Whitby . It was a double house : a community of men and another of women , with the chapel in between , and Hilda as the governor of both and it was a great center of English learning , one which produced five bishops: 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 , November 17, 2012 Hugh of Lincoln As a sign of his remorse for his role in the murder of the Archbishop Thomas a Becket , King Henry II founded the first house in England of the strict monastic order called the Carthusians . Difficulties arose with the first two priors , and a French noble recommended Hugh de Avalon , who at that time had been a monk at the mother house of the order for 17 . years On his arrival in England in 1176, Hugh found that the building of the monastery had not begun . Worse , no compensation had been paid to those who would have to lose their lands and property to make room for it . Hugh: 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 , November 16, 2012 Margaret of Scotland c 1045 16 November 1093 was the sister of Edgar Ætheling , the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon king of England . She married Malcolm III , King of Scots , becoming his Queen . consort The daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile , son of Edmund Ironside , Margaret was probably born in Hungary . The provenance of her mother Agatha is disputed . According to popular belief , Margaret was a very serious person , so much that no one ever could recall seeing her laugh or . smile When her uncle , Edward the Confessor , the French-speaking Anglo-Saxon King of England ,: 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 , November 15, 2012 Malo of Brittany also known as Maclou or Mac'h Low and , in Latin , as Maclovius or Machutus was the mid-6th century founder of Saint-Malo in Brittany , France . He is one of the seven founding saints of . Brittany Details of Malo's career are preserved in three medieval Lives' which seem to include incidents associated with several different people of similar names . Despite this confusion , it appears that Malo was born about the year 520, probably in . Wales Malo is said to have been baptized by Saint Brendan and to have become his favorite disciple . He is said to have been one of those: 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 , November 14, 2012 Bestowal of the American Episcopate A crucial date for Anglicanism in the United States of America is the consecration of the first Bishop of the Anglican Communion in the United States . During the colonial era , there had been no Anglican bishops in the New World and persons seeking to be ordained as clergy had had to travel to England for the purpose . After the achievement of American independence , it was important for the Church in the United States to have its own bishops , and an assembly of Connecticut clergy chose Samuel Seabury to go to England and there seek to be consecrated as a 
: 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 , November 14, 2012 Lawrence O’Toole Son of the chief of Hy Murray . Taken as a hostage by King Dermot McMurrogh Leinster in 1138 when he was ten years old Dermot later married Lawrence’s sister Mor . He was released in 1140 at age twelve to the Bishop of Glendalough , Ireland . and raised and educated at the monastic school there . Monk at Glendalough , and then abbot in 1153. Declined the bishopric of Glendalough in 1160, citing his unworthiness . Ordered to accept the archbishopric of Dublin , Ireland in 1161, he became the first native-born Irishman to hold the see . Reformed much of the administration and: 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 , November 13, 2012 Brice of Tours c . 370 444 was the fourth Bishop of Tours , succeeding Martin of Tours in 397. According to legend , Brice was an orphan rescued by Martin and raised in the monastery at Marmoutiers . He later became Martin's pupil , although the ambitious and volatile Brice was rather the opposite of his . master As Bishop of Tours , Brice performed his duties , but was also said to succumb to worldly pleasures . After a nun in his household gave birth to a child that was rumored to be his , he performed a ritual by carrying hot coal in his coat to the grave of Martin , showing his intact coat
: 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 , November 12, 2012 Charles Simeon Two hundred years ago , students at the English Universities were required to attend church regularly , and to receive the Holy Communion at least once a year . This latter requirement often had bad effects , in that it encouraged hypocrisy and an irreverent reception of the sacrament . Occasionally , however , it had a very good effect , as with the Cambridge student Charles Simeon . He wrote : On 29 January 1779 I came to college . On 2 February I understood that at division of term I must attend the Lord's Supper . The Provost absolutely required it . Conscience told me that ,: 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 , November 11, 2012 The 23rd Sunday After Trinity The Collect . O GOD , our refuge and strength , who art the author of all godliness Be ready , we beseech thee , to hear the devout prayers of thy Church and grant that those things which we ask faithfully we may obtain effectually through Jesus Christ our Lord . . Amen The Epistle Philippians iii . 17. BRETHREN , be followers together of me , and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample . For many walk , of whom I have told you often , and now tell you even weeping , that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ : whose end is destruction , whose god