Peter Ould on September 2nd, 2009

Satirical website, Ship of Fools, has recently been running an open forum on what the worst verses in the Bible are. From this a top ten has been produced which the Telegraph has shared for everybody.

St Paul’s advice about whether women are allowed to teach men in church: “I do not permit [...]

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Peter Ould on August 5th, 2009

That’s what Ruth Gledhill thinks.
The liberal fightback against Anglican conservatives and the Archbishop of Canterbury has begun. Open warfare is now declared.
Pro-gays in the Church of England are planning a survey of all LGBT clergy, in and out of the closet, in London, Southwark and throughout the Church. In the capital, they reckon, it is [...]

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Peter Ould on July 17th, 2009

My word, this is hilarious.
We are writing to you as the Presiding Officers of the two Houses of The General Convention of The Episcopal Church. As your friends in Christ, we remain deeply grateful to you for your gracious presence among us recently during our 76th General Convention in Anaheim.
As you know, The General Convention [...]

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Peter Ould on July 15th, 2009

Just released (and not yet on his blog). This is hugely important because Kendall is probably the leading Conservative commentator left in TEC.
Statement of Kendall Harmon on Resolution D025
The passage of Resolution D025 by the General Convention of 2009 is a repudiation of Holy Scripture as the church has received and understood it ecumenically in [...]

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Peter Ould on July 15th, 2009

When the leading Bishop of Fulcrum, and a fully paid up member of the “Let’s have a Covenant” camp writes stuff like this, you know the game is up for TEC.
In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. [...]

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Peter Ould on July 14th, 2009

An absolutely brilliant press statement from Fulcrum on D025 and other developments.
The decision, by a 2-to-1 majority, of the House of Bishops of TEC to pass D025 represents a further determined walking apart by the American Church and must have significant consequences for the relationship of TEC to the Church of England and the Anglican [...]

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Peter Ould on July 13th, 2009

Ruth G has by far the most balanced summary of the vote on D025 and the response at Synod in York.
The Archbishop of Canterbury told General Synod today that he ‘regrets’ the decision by The Episcopal Church house of deputies to overturn the moratorium on the ordination of gay bishops. At the same time, the [...]

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Peter Ould on July 8th, 2009

I’ve just figured what is horribly, horribly wrong with the Ubuntu Logo, used by the Episcopal Church for General Convention 2009. Look at those words on the bottom.
I in you and you in me
Those words are apparently taken from the Gospel of John, but the closest I can find are Jesus’ words in John 17:23 [...]

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Peter Ould on July 8th, 2009

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
Thing Number One
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that [...]

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Peter Ould on June 30th, 2009

Q. How many Mormons does it take to fix a lightbulb?
A. Mormon lightbulbs aren’t fixed, they’re restored.
Don’t get it? By the time you’ve finished reading Latayne Scott’s reissued “The Mormon Mirage” you might. Zondervan have just put out a third edition of this classic text on mormonism from an evangelical christian perspective, updated for the [...]

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