Kenneth Kearon - Shame On You

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How Scientology Is Being Google Bombed

If you go to Google and type in the words "dangerous cult", guess who comes up as the number one link? FactNET has more on how this was done but here’s the layman’s guide:

Create a new blog post
In the blog post create a link with, off the top of my head, the words "brainwashing cult" [...]

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Rowan(ish) Meets The Press..

Possibly already contender for Anglican blog post of the year, MCJ provides us with a moment of utter hilarity!!!
(Reproduced in full here because I don’t want you to miss it)

Good morning.  This is Meet the Press and I’m Tim Russert.  Can the law teach human decency or good manners?  Should it even try?  Should it be [...]

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Testimony - David Kyle Foster

Marvellous!!

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Resistance Is Not Futile

New Hope Outreach with some thoughts that will help some readers of this blog. Feel free to contact me via the "Contact Peter" page if I can help you with anything raised below.

The “Borg[1” cube spacecraft approaches the unsuspecting and fearful starship announcing ‘Resistance is futile’ and with that announcement it proceeds to capture and [...]

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Piper - Psalm 106 And Abortion

So the psalm is raw when it comes to child sacrifice. There are at least four parallels with abortion.
1) It Is Called Sacrifice
One is that it is called “sacrifice.” Verse 37: “They sacrificed their sons and their daughters.” Sacrifice means that you give up something ordinarily considered valuable (a sheep or a bull) to [...]

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$cientology And Child Abuse?

Firstly, keep watching this space for news of what will be happening on the 10th of February 2008.
Next, the concern of Anonymous, the group responsible for the video below seems to be that $cientology is not just a wacky religious group, but that it is actually a totalitarian cult intent on world domination. Perhaps a [...]

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Aco Run By Tec? Surely Not…

From Mainstream:

Readers of the Anglican Communion Office’s website might begin to wonder who is running the Anglican Communion. The Anglican Communion Office is described on the site as “the permanent secretariat of the Anglican Consultative Council, which is led by the Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General” and is “based in London, England”.
As such, it [...]

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Hackers Gang Up On Scientology (quite Right Too)

This is just too good (and about time)

Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology
A copyright violation claim by the Church of Scientology against the posting of one of its videos to YouTube has prompted a full-on assault by a group calling itself Anonymous.
The video, in which Tom Cruise proclaims, in part, that Scientologists are [...]

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Children’s Communion Prayer

One of the items being discussed at next month’s General Synod is the provision of Eucharistic liturgy for a "Children’s Communion". With more and more churches admitting baptised children to Communion, the lack of any suitable texts is becoming increasingly apparent.
Here at Christ Church I wrote an experimental liturgy to use with children (and their [...]

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25 Weeks

We are now at the 25 week stage!!!

The baby now weighs nearly 1.5 pounds / 660 grams and is approximately 13.5 inches/ 35 centimetres long from crown to heel. He makes breathing movements but has no air in his lungs yet. At 26 weeks, fetal brain scans show response to touch. If you shine a [...]

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Mrs Beamish

It’s an oldie but a goodie (and here just for Father Stuart)!
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Did Rowan Williams Just Undermine Lambeth ‘98 1:10?

In amongst the report from Ruth G of the launch for this summer’s Lambeth Conference was this little line:

It became clear that the Windsor Report is standard, but that Lambeth will be a consultation and communication exercise of such a standing that it won’t really affect anything if a quarter of the Church’s bishops do [...]

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Stripping Jesus Of Everything He Is

You may have seen in recent days this Christmas Card that was sent by the office of the Presiding Bishop of TEC.

It’s been raising some eye-brows and rightly so. But when a friend sent it to me again this weekend and asked me what I thought about it, I suddenly realised what the problem with [...]

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New Twin Study Shows Little Genetic / Utero Hormonal Causation Of Homosexuality

From here:

Twin studies are favorites of mine because of the potential light they throw on the origin of SSA. The latest one (Santtila et al., 2008) is three times larger than any previous one - in fact bigger than all the rest put together. Does it change anything? Quick answer: No. It confirms the best [...]

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