Peter Ould on November 30th, 2008

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Peter Ould on November 22nd, 2008

Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream has written a useful reply in this week’s CEN to Stephen Kuhrt’s piece last week about whether the CEEC is now just a conservative evangelical navel-gazing body (or words to that effect). Chris writes:

Stephen speaks of ‘three streams’:  but why (only) three?  How do we know their relative strengths?  The [...]

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Peter Ould on November 5th, 2008

Even for a McCain supporter like myself, it is hard not to acknowledge that last night the USA did something remarkable, an act which went a long way to healing hurts from the past and proving that America literally is the land of the free. I may not be a fan of Obama’s politics, but as regards [...]

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Peter Ould on September 3rd, 2008

A month ago I wrote that we should enter into a period of grace and give the Lambeth / Windsor process one last throw. I got some stick from US conservatives for even daring to suggest such a thing. Here’s the key paragraph that caused upset:

Here then is perhaps one road forward for the Conservatives. [...]

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Peter Ould on August 18th, 2008

Here’s an interesting exercise, especially for my more conservative (politically or theologically) friends. Wahlkabine has a questionaire that you can fill in to work out which party you would vote for in the Austrian elections. Click on the link and then click the huge "Starten" button. Don’t worry if your German isn’t up to scratch, [...]

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Peter Ould on June 7th, 2008

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 [...]

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Peter Ould on May 19th, 2008

Another brilliant piece from CentreRight on today’s vote in the Commons.

And so the votes begin on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill. Feelings are riding high on many issues - from abortion rights to stem-cell research - as well as the issue that most exercises my feelings - the intention to remove the need for [...]

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Peter Ould on April 11th, 2008

So Colin Coward has produced a response to blog posts on this and other sites, challenging him and Changing Attitude on the various allegations made in the two press releases of the past few weeks. This third press release is disappointing and fails to address the issues raised in conservative blogs.
Shall we have a look?

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