Choices 2005 - Uk Voting

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Something Sensible From Gene Robinson

Surprisingly, there is a little gem in the current Times serialisation of Gene Robinson’s book, a nugget that all those on the conservative side need to grab hold of and understand:

The worst part is that it’s reminiscent of the years and years that I had to self-censor everything I said, so as not to give [...]

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How Gordon Annoyed The Most Important People…

Nadine Dorries reports how it doesn’t get any better than this in terms of the 10p tax debacle.

Stood at the till paying for my toasted tea cake and tea just as the lovely members’ tea room staff were handed their pay slips.
Pay slip time is always a collegiate thing when money matters.
The first member to [...]

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Substitutionary Atonement And Proverbs

Team Pyro showing that the Bible is a coherent whole, especially when it comes to the atonement.

Sail carefully
In approaching the Old Testament believingly, two extremes must be avoided.
Off to the left looms the Scylla of atomization. Each part of the Bible is treated as a standalone, an historical artifact written virtually without reference to any [...]

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Day Of Truth / Silence / Golden Rule

Last year I used the Day of Truth to talk about what "post-gay" meant to me.
This year I want to highlight a post Warren Throckmorton has made in connection with his campaign to emphasise the Golden Rule on the Day of Silence (which was on Friday). The post is one person’s email to Warren about [...]

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Two Videos For Sunday

One to make you cry

and one to make you laugh

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38 Weeks

Baruch is 38 weeks old. Ready to pop any moment!!

Can you tell if you’re carrying a boy or a girl? One hint may come from the size of your baby — boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls. Babies at week 39 weigh about 6.8 to 7 pounds / 3 to 3.2 kilograms and [...]

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How To Do Homophobia

Now most regular readers of this website know that I’m not overly socially liberal in the slightest and that I believe that God has designed us to relate sexually within marriage of a man and a woman and that any other sexual relationship is sinful. I link to websites that share the same view and [...]

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An Elementary Lesson In Reading Police Forms

Changing Attitude have produced a police report from the attack on Davis Mac-Iyalla, which examines the syringe that was used in the attack. You can see a copy of the report to the right (and if you click on it it will send you to a larger version on the CA website).
Changing Attitude claim the [...]

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Saturday Question

Who said the following?

I call myself a Christian. I believe in Jesus, I believe in what Jesus did and in the absolution of sins. I believe that he put himself on the cross to take away human sins, in order to give people the opportunity to get to God through him.
I believe that’s the fundamental [...]

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Nigeria Attacks - Kwashi Responds

Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi has responded to the allegations of assaults on Changing Attitude Nigeria leaders and the insinuations that somehow the Church of Nigeria was involved. Here are the important excerpts - read them carefully because his Grace understands what the core of the issue is:

We are saddened and worried that some Churches and Christians [...]

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Esv Study Bible

The new ESV study bible is being released this autumn, just at the point where my over a decade old NIV study bible is falling apart!!
Hurrah!!

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way—to understand the timeless truth of God’s Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. To [...]

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37 Weeks

Baruch is full term!!!

Your baby weighs close to 6.5 pounds / 2.8 kilograms and may be about 20 inches / 50 centimetres long from head to toe. Your baby’s head is now cradled in your pelvic cavity — surrounded and protected by your pelvic bones. This position clears some much-needed space for her growing [...]

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815 Goes For The Kill

What happens when someone is the lead blogger at the most widely read Conservative Anglican website in the world, and you don’t like it? Do you take the Christian attitude and try to engage in dialogue? Do you wrestle with the theological issues at stake online, publicly engaging in a process of discernment? Do you [...]

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Should Homosexually Active Men Give Blood?

The BBC is reporting today about a petition to change the rules in Scotland on blood donation.

A petition by gay rights campaigners against what they believe is discrimination over who can give blood is to be considered by MSPs.
The LGBT Network said safe sex practices meant men who have had sex with other men could [...]

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