By Peter Ould, on May 11th, 2012% Who’d have thought? This is not going away…
THE Church of Ireland will debate gay relationships tomorrow after a decision to stop the debate taking place was effectively overturned following behind the scenes negotiations in Dublin today.
A motion brought to the church’s General Synod by two bishops to re-affirm the church’s teaching that marriage . . . → Read More: Irish General Synod does a U-Turn
By Peter Ould, on May 11th, 2012% Yesterday’s vote in the Church of Ireland’s General Synod on Motion 8 was withdrawn on a proceedural technicality, as reported in the Irish Times.
A MOTION affirming traditional church teaching on marriage could not be taken at the Church of Ireland General Synod in Dublin yesterday, on a point of order. Speakers argued that as . . . → Read More: Procedural Nonsense in the Church of Ireland
By Peter Ould, on May 8th, 2012% The Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Down and Drowmore have put forward the following motion to be debated at the General Synod of the Church of Ireland this Thursday.
8 A: HUMAN SEXUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN THE BISHOP OF DOWN & DROMORE
Having regard to the . . . → Read More: The Ante is Upped in the Church of Ireland
By Peter Ould, on May 8th, 2012% A reminder of some words I wrote a year ago.
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The core of the argument against having Jeffrey John as the Bishop was laid out in a legal opinion offered from the legal team at Church House. In it they suggested a number of issues that could be considered when debating how a particular candidate could . . . → Read More: Reflections on Outing
By Peter Ould, on April 14th, 2012% Is there an even-handed approach by newspapers like the Guardian to issues around the fluidity of sexuality? Let’s find out.
Yesterday afternoon Robert Booth at the Guardian published an interview with Peterson Toscano, an “ex-ex-gay”. It’s a friendly interview – it doesn’t ask any critical questions and the first paragraph sets out the tone of . . . → Read More: Fair and Balanced?
By Peter Ould, on April 7th, 2012% You knew that eventually we were going to come back to debunking some of the poor science claimed as “statistics” in the debate over homosexuality didn’t you? Here goes…
There is a report up on LifeSite News that claims that research in Australia looking at mental health figures for self-identified male and female homosexuals. LifeSite . . . → Read More: Stats Watch! 4

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Two Final Things Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

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Risen Christ,
you have raised our human nature to the throne of heaven:
help us to seek and serve you,
that we may join you at the side of the Father,
where you reign with the Spirit in glory,
now and for ever.
God’s Word And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. (2 Corinthians 1:21-22, ESV)
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