This is really true.
More than ever perhaps :
• Space is at a premium.
• Time is at a premium.
• Cash is at a premium.
Hence the need for the -
‘ Easy Inter Burial Container ‘
For which a new US patent was granted yesterday.
‘ This invention relates to conserving land area and easy [...]
Controversy in some corners today over an interview Gordon Brown has done with Piers Morgan (to be shown next week) where he publicly cries over the death of his daughter Jennifer Jane in 2002. Tory Bear sums up one perspective.
Make no mistake, his appearance on the Piers Morgan show would have been negotiated and debated [...]
Back in the summer I began a series examining the Biblical passages around homosexual behaviour with a view to approaching the texts afresh to explore whether some of theology that I currently have was in any sense assumptive. You can read the first four parts of this series by clicking the links on the right [...]
If you read Morning Prayer this morning in the Church of England you’ll have noticed that a portion of the Old Testament text for today was omitted from the official reading. Here for all to see is what we were asked to read.
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting [...]
The Telegraph (via Martin Beckford) has it all!
Benedict XVI claimed that legislation introduced by Labour to end discrimination “actually violates natural law” because it stopped worshippers remaining true to their beliefs.
Rather than making society more equal, the Government’s new rules limited religious freedom, he said.
His strongly [...]
A new opinion poll, recent news stories and a TV programme here in the UK have brought the issue of Euthanasia back onto the media agenda. In the Scottish Parliament Margo MacDonald is introducing a Bill to allow assisted suicide in the case of a terminal illness. It’s worth noting that Mrs MacDonald has Parkinson’s [...]
I have a dictaphone taped to my stomach as I arrive at Lynne’s large house, north of London. She had told me beforehand that she would charge me £40 per session and that she always prayed at the beginning and end of the sessions. I’m shown [...]
After a few weeks at number one, I’m excused for plugging the awesomely wonderful Fireflies by Owl City (Adam Young).
And if that’s your kind of music and lyric (as it is mine), then you’ll love this half hour set. The man is a musical genius.
OK, she’s a friend of the family so we’re biased, but I am SO looking forward to the new album, Eternity Invades, coming out from Vicky Beeching at Easter. Those of use in the know have been given a sneak preview, and you lucky lucky readers of my blog are going to get an even [...]
In response the Susannah’s comment on a previous post, here’s what I had to say about my current approach to transsexualism.
I have to be totally open and honest with you (and my other readers) at this point and admit that I am currently engaged in a rethink on this issue of transgenderism. When we lost [...]
Get down with da boyz. If you have a smattering of political economy you’re going to love this. If not, you could just use it to make cheap fatuous and ill-informed remarks about Antipodean dioceses (eh David?).
H/T – Da Archbishop
CCFON have the news.
Three amendments tabled by Baroness O’Cathain were passed by the House of Lords tonight. The first amendment was voted through 216 votes to 178, the second was conceded by the Government and the third was voted through 177 votes to 172.
The Government also tried to pass an amendment which would have further [...]
You can watch it live here.
House of Lords Key Amendments on Equality Bill
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All the fault of Beau Bo D’Or
The Bishops (below) have asked Peers to vote in favour of three amendments to the Equality Bill in place of the Government’s compromise amendment. Let me spell out what the different amendments (and the current text) mean.
The first amendment (98) reads as follows.
Page 165, line 5, leave out “application is a proportionate means of complying” [...]
