Former Bishop Speaks Out: The Legal Threat to Christianity in the UK
Updated: 2010-04-30 11:36:00
The following is an excerpt from the Telegraph newspaper in the United Kingdom. You can read the entire article by click on: The Legal Threat to Our Spiritual Tradition Recent legislation has not been notable for upholding this long tradition of respect for conscience and I fear that we are entering an absolutist era where there is no room for believers. What we need is a 
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Telegraph: The McFarlane judgment raises fundamental questions about church and state
Lord Justice Laws's judgment on the Gary McFarlane case in the Court of Appeal – that legislation for the protection of views held purely on religious ground cannot be justified – has driven a coach and horses through the ancient association of the Christian faith [...]
`Christianity Today'
It is now universally understood that the center of Christianity has shifted from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Books and articles by Philip Jenkins, Dana Robert, Todd Johnson, Lamin Sanneh, Andrew Walls, and Mark Noll have highlighted this shift. In the year 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians [...]
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NEW YORK—Just as leaders convened at the UN headquarters in New York for a conference on maternal mortality, The Lancet published a study that undercut abortion advocates' efforts to link the cause of maternal mortality to abortion rights. At the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, activists used the world's supposedly [...]
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Churchgoers in Northern Ireland have blasted a proposal to move Belfast City Marathon to a Sunday from its traditional May Day bank holiday date.
Organisers say nothing has been decided yet, but they confirm that the idea is being considered.
A Sunday event will lead to some Christian participants pulling out because of their beliefs [...]
`World Magazine'
The near-unpronounceable Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull (Iceland's U.S. embassy reported it as "AY-yah-fyah-lah-YOH-kuul") started erupting April 14, sending ash into the atmosphere over Europe and shutting down air travel over the continent for five days, with flights gradually resuming thereafter. Read more
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Prostitution will remain legal in Scotland after MSPs ignored impassioned pleas to ban it.
Labour MSP Trish Godman implored Holyrood members to send a signal that buying sex is “not harmless or acceptable”. “I would argue that we owe it to all women who are victimised by prostitution to do what we can now”, [...]
By Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post
Melanie Phillips’s new book stuns readers with a ferocious exposé of the strains of insanity in political correctness.
Award-winning columnist Melanie Phillips, recipient of the Orwell prize for journalism in 1996 and author of acclaimed Londonistan, has written an explosive new book systematically exposing chapter and verse of the hypocrisy, cant and [...]
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Earlier today 40,000 copies of our manifesto-crunching election guide arrived from our printers and began to be mailed out from our HQ to churches and supporters across the nation.
The briefing has been available for seven days from our website and has been hugely popular with over 10,000 downloads so far.
Remember you can still [...]
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The ability of Christian voters to influence the upcoming General Election has been explored by the BBC.
In an article, published on the broadcaster’s website, Justin Parkinson questions whether politicians’ traditionally hands-off approach to religion could be changing.
In the run up to the election a number of Christian organisations have been urging believers to [...]
By Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest (Hat Tip: Barbara Gauthier)
(Clip) The mainline churches do not seem to have thought through some of the basic conditions that allow religious organizations to thrive. Religion will not long prosper as a luxury good; it is not primarily a way that comfortable people who are basically happy with [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Ohio Anglican.blog Opinion , News , History , Information and Random Thoughts Of A Lost Broad-Church Orthodox Anglican Looking To Build A Home In Northern . Ohio Friday , April 30, 2010 Today's Propers Friday Following the Third Sunday after Easter Catherine of Siena 04 30 2010 1928 BCP 1945 Lectionary Morning Prayer click for link Evening Prayer click for link The Collect(s for the . Day ALMIGHTY God , who showest to them that are in error the light of thy truth , to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness Grant unto all those who are admitted into the fellowship of Christ's Religion , that they may avoid those things that are contrary to their profession , and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through our Lord
By Gordon Rayner, Telegraph
The diplomat who authorised a memo mocking the Pope has been suspended by the Foreign Office after Catholics reacted with fury to its contents.
Anjoum Noorani, 31, has been told to stay at home while the department carries out a misconduct investigation.
When the memo was first leaked to The Sunday Telegraph, the [...]
Dear Greenbelt,
I am writing in relation to two concerns.
The first has to do with one of the speakers you brought to Greenbelt last year, Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire. I expressed various concerns which I flagged beforehand, and which, after I heard him, I believed were well-founded. To be fair, last August Robinson’s [...]
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The Rt. Rev. Scott A. Benhase, Bishop of Georgia, wrote to his diocese concerning his decision to consent to the election of the The Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool as Bishop Suffragan of Los Angeles. Here is what he said:
21 April 2010To the People of the Diocese of Georgia:
A few of our colleagues in the Diocese [...]
April 28, 2010 GAFCON website
The Global South to South Encounter
The Fourth Blast of the Trumpet
The image of the trumpet blast seems to be an over-dramatic description of the communiqué issued from the latest Global South Encounter. In fact, the response to it has been somewhat muted. But as a guest at the conference, I [...]
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by Chris Sugden, Evangelicals Now, May 2010
The Rev Mary Glasspool, who is living in a same-sex relationship, has received sufficient consents from other Bishops in The Episcopal Church for her to be consecrated as Suffragan Bishop in Los Angeles on May 15.
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A traditional service, open communion, and desire for Christian community bring new members to the Episcopal Church.
Learn what to expect during the process of joining the Episcopal Church, how long it takes to become an Episcopalian, and more.
The Anglican Book of Alternative Services is a good source of worship and prayer suggestions for families to use at home, creating their own celebration of faith.
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Click on the image here to visit the article, which offers a fascinating, interactive infographic, showing the rise & fall of religious groups by state and by broad affiliation over the past two decades.