Peter Ould on October 27th, 2008

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Peter Ould on July 22nd, 2008

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, [...]

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Peter Ould on July 20th, 2008

This afternoon, Susan Russell preached at that Eucharist and used the following line:

In John 8:32, Jesus promised that “the truth will set you free.

You really do just hand this to us on a plate don’t you Suse? Go back one verse (John 8:31) and Jesus says this:

"If you hold to my teaching, you are really [...]

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Peter Ould on April 24th, 2008

Now most regular readers of this website know that I’m not overly socially liberal in the slightest and that I believe that God has designed us to relate sexually within marriage of a man and a woman and that any other sexual relationship is sinful. I link to websites that share the same view and [...]

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