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Continue reading about Some thoughts on the Debate - 2 - The Glorification of Heterosexuality
This from Lisa Guinness:
She could not accept that times have moved on and academics and practitioners, secular and Christian, agree that sexuality is fluid and open to many influences and developments even in adulthood. Also, that many of us become stuck in this development and after puberty, genuine unmet pre-pubescent needs, become eroticised and present [...]
Continue reading about More responses to the London Times “Ex-Gay” piece
The London Times yesterday ran a feature about the recent Exodus Conference in North Carolina. You can read it here. This is one of the opening paragraphs that sets the scene:
Exodus is one of the ministries of the so-called “ex-gay” movement, a controversial fundamentalist Christian campaign that encourages gay people to renounce their sexuality. This, [...]
Father Ian Ker shows us very clearly that allegations that Newman was gay are based on 21st Century cultural assumptions:
Fr Ker, the author of the definitive biography of Newman, said there was no evidence to suggest that the cardinal was gay other than the grief at the death of his closest friend and the request [...]
Continue reading about Vatican - If Newman was gay then Chesterton was an adulterer
As regards the possibility of Jeffrey John becoming Bishop of Bangor, it might be worth reviewing the conversations on this blog last summer after the Priddis / Reaney case.
As you remember, Reaney took Priddis, the Bishop of Hereford, to court alleging direct and indirect discrimination on the grounds that the Bishop refused to accept his [...]
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Given that (i) McCain has picked Palin as his V-P candidate and (ii) that McCain’s health isn’t 100%, the USA has a more than nominal chance of having a female President within the next four years.
By the way, here is where she stands on social issues (from the Wikipedia article above):
Palin is pro-life.[37] While running [...]
I’ve just put the following comment on the Covenant Blog thread which I discussed earlier:
I cannot imagine what standard conservative language does to LBGT people. Is there any way to state the conservative position *without* offending?
I would want to argue that the answer to this question is an unequivocal "yes".
The problem often with the stating [...]
I’ve been disturbed this week by a story posted on a leading conservative anglican website. The news piece is a report about two gay policemen in the UK who have been acquited of child porn charges:
A pair of homosexual police "partners" have been cleared of charges of possession of child pornography, both in their shared [...]
FormerlyGay has picked up on a news story in California:
California’s highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination extends to the medical profession.
The ruling was unanimous and a succinct 18 pages, a contrast to [...]
Susan Russell, Chair of Integrity got invited yesterday to write for the Guardian. Unfortunately, her piece is full of contradictions and false assumptions.
As the Lambeth conference proceeds in Canterbury, gay and lesbian Anglicans find themselves, once again, on the communion chopping block. It is a sad thing indeed that the message sent out from the [...]
Last month, against a huge backlash from the GLBT lobby, I supported the right of Iris Robinson, wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland to make certain remarks about homosexuality. At the time I wrote the following:
This is the problem that is now facing Christians. If we continue to hold to our antiquated views, [...]
Continue reading about Iris Robinson says one thing too far…
As I’m sure you’re all aware, over two months ago Rowan Williams wrote to Gene Robinson, refusing to grant him the right to preach or preside at the Eucharist whilst he was over here in Blighty during the Lambeth Conference. Having already completely ignored the prohibition on preaching last night at St Mary’s Putney, now [...]
Mark Yarhouse’s new blog on Christianity and Psychology, Limning the Psyche, (which I think means "Illuminating the Psyche", though Limning sounds much cooler) has an interesting post publicising the new Journal on Spiritual Formation and Soul Care.
The inaugural issue of Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care is available. It is a journal published by Biola [...]
I’ve held off on blogging on some recent news stories partly because I’ve been far too busy the backend of last week and this weekend and partly because I’ve been reflecting on the strange coherence of seemingly disparate events of the last seven days or so. Looking back over reports since I last blogged properly [...]
Wow.
Who’d have thought it? A Church of England report says that Labour have effectively discriminated against Christianity and that in comparison, David Cameron’s Conservatives have a "genuine thirst to understand and combat poverty". More than this,
"Despite many voices in the Church telling us, ‘there is no difference between any of the [...]
Continue reading about The Church of England Agrees - Labour are Ungodly
