815 Goes For The Kill

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Giles “o’brien” Fraser

Now, Giles Fraser on the best of days makes a habit of annoying as many people as possible (see the letters in today’s Church Times for the simple proof) but his column in today’s Church Times takes the principle to a whole new level. What Fraser now wants is that what’s sauce for th1e goose [...]

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The Truth About Depo

Anyway, things would be a lot easier for all of us if you conservatives hadn’t spurned all our efforts at reconcilation.

Such as?

DEPO, the Presiding Bishop’s Episcopal Visitors plan…

Did you know that we have a new acronym for all that?  BOMRIC.

BOMRIC?  What does that mean?

Bend Over, More Reconciliation Is Coming.

Read it all at MCJ
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Benny Hinn The Fraud

Hat-tip the clone

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Back In Town

We were away for the past week so hence the lack of blogging (or replying to comments). Back now (via 4d baby scans, baby shows, brand new buggies and car seats etc), though still technically on holiday till next week. Loads to blog, but for the moment let me send you the way of this [...]

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Kenneth Kearon - Shame On You

Guess who’s ultimately responsible for the Anglican Communion Website? That’s right, Kenneth Kearon who is the Secretary General.
Perhaps he’d like to explain why, as BabyBlue helpfully points out, Bishop John David Schofield of San Joaquin is listed on his site as "inhibited" but Bishop Carles Bennison Jr of Pennsylvania isn’t? Just to remind you dear [...]

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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:

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Venables On Why Lambeth Is Becoming An Irrelevance

An excellent post published on Mainstream but coming from a thread on Stand Firm:

In what might be an unprecedented discussion, an Anglican Primate has been blogging with a number of bloggers on attendance or non-attendance at the Lambeth Conference. Archbishop Venables (++GV) was at home in Buenos Aires with grandchildren crawling over him while discussing [...]

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Go Those Liberals…

Just to spice up your pre-Christmas, here’s the details of a conference in Oxford where you can hear the Revd Canon Prof Martyn Percy talk on “Why Liberal Churches are Growing”.
And to get you in the mood, here’s a wonderful example of all that’s good and heretical about modern day liberalism. While the video’s running, [...]

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The Extent Of Evangelism In Tec

Hat-tip to Baby Blue who has shown this morning just how pathetic TEC are at spreading the Gospel.
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The Divide Widens But Rowan Seems To Be Coming Good…

You may have missed it over the past few days, but the divide in the Anglican Communion has got wider and wider over the previous week. On the 8th the Diocese of San Joaquin voted to leave the Episcopal Church in the US and join the Southern Cone (under Greg Venables). Since then there has [...]

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San Joaquin Quits Tec

You may not have noticed it, but yesterday the schism began:
The Central California Diocese of San Joaquin today became the first in the nation to secede from the Episcopal Church, taking the historic, risky step as part of a years-long struggle within the church and global Anglican Communion over homosexuality and biblical authority.
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Indulgence Anybody?

Would you believe it? Tetzel’s back in town…
Pope Benedict XVI is offering relief from purgatory to Roman Catholics who travel to Lourdes over the next year, the Vatican said yesterday.
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Donatism It Ain’t

One thing that refusing to take Communion with those who reject the traditional catholic teaching of the Church is not, is Donatism. Rather Not spells it out again very clearly:
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All Hail The Marcionites!!

Once again, in his usual weekly Church Times column of anti-orthodoxy comment, Giles Fraser has missed the point entirely:
This week’s stop (my final one) on my American adventure is Pittsburgh, the belly of the beast. The good people of Calvary Church have been looking after me and sharing their fears.
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