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Constitutional Changes [...]
Mark Harris is completely skew-whiff in his arguments:
Archbishop Venables of the Southern Cone is quoted in the Living Church as saying, “We will have no problem ceasing interventions once we see repentance and a return to biblical principles.”
This is a shaky moral stance: "We will stop doing x (which the Archbishop considers a "secondary" issue) [...]
A funny little story in today’s Mail…
Some days she strides up to church wearing hot pants and biker boots.
Or she might opt for dominatrix-style red leather high heels to go with her six piercings including a nose stud.
Not the apparel you would normally expect from a Church of England curate.
But punk rocker Skye Denno insists [...]
In my previous two posts I have examined the liturgy of the London Gay Union, showing that it is to all intents and purposes a mirror of the BCP Marriage Service, and looked at the theology of the liturgy and how it affects the doctrine of marriage of the Church of England. I now want [...]
I’ve never done it before, but tonight was the first time. May I suggest that all the UK readers of this blog should engage in this act as a loyal subject.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
21st May 2008
Your Majesty,
For the defence of your most vulnerable subjects, for the [...]
Some good stuff on the blogs examining the current excitement over in Lakeland, Florida.
I have had a number of people ask me about events which are gaining a lot of attention at the moment. In the UK, a series of ‘revival’ meetings being run in Lakeland, Florida by evangelist Todd Bentley are being shown daily [...]
Scott Gunn over at Inclusive Church is asking parishes on both sides of the Atlantic to pass the following motion before the Lambeth Conference (and then of course to tell everybody up the chain that they’ve done it).
“As Christians, we believe that all people have been made in the image of God. We believe that [...]
Continue reading about Inclusive Church’s Nebulous PCC Motion
Back in 1789 a piece of history was being made. While the French were revolting, William Wilberforce put forward the first of his bills to abolish the Slave Trade in the British Empire. Of course, the Bill was voted down, but Wilberforce continud his struggle year after year until finally Parliament agreed with him that [...]
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 [...]
Just want to highlight a comment made on the Glasgow same-sex blessings thread and my response to it.
Kimberly said:
The point is that blessing is what we do.
The church has been given the gift of pronouncing God’s blessing where we find it and where it is needed. We bless all sorts of things, all sorts [...]
Got hold this weekend of the new album by thebandwithnoname, “Dying to be There” and have absolutely fallen in love with the first track on the CD - Do or Die. As well as being a kicking NuMetal tune, it reminds me that a Christian faith without action stemming from it is totally dead (as [...]
“Oh dear”, I thought to myself, “Gay is no longer an option and yes it has to be Christianity”.
Read the rest of Joe S’ great testimony here.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I think Jane has it pretty well sorted there.
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Yes, you read that right. If only I lived in Dayton, Ohio.
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