Peter Ould

Transgendered Infants?

By Peter Ould Posted on March 8, 2013 Posted in Transgender Tagged with Opening Monologue, Transgendered

Get through the opening monologue (though it make some good points), the discussion afterwards is really interesting. H/T Parakaleo

The Ethics of PayDay Lending

By Peter Ould Posted on March 7, 2013 Posted in Banking, UK News Tagged with Administration Fee, Affordability, Bank Overdraft, Borrowers, Collection Tactics, Customer Complaints, Debt Collection, Ethics, Financial Difficulties, Financial Difficulty, Forbearance, Key Areas, Overdrafts, Payday Lender, Payday Lenders, Payday Loans, Short Term Loans, Solvency, Street Banks, Tiny Window

Yesterday’s OFT report on the performance of “PayDay Loans” companies was, let’s be frank, damning. OFT Paper 1481 gives most of the lenders in this market a tiny window of twelve weeks to demonstrate compliance in five key areas. These …

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Review – Faith and the Creeds

By Peter Ould Posted on March 5, 2013 Posted in Creeds, Review, Theology Tagged with Alister Mcgrath, Apostle Creed, Apostle S Creed, Basics Of Christianity, C S Lewis, Christian Belief, Collective Experience, Commentary Series, Dawkins, Debunking, Ecumenical Creeds, Journey Of Faith, Liturgical Life, Military Operation, Minute Blocks, Nicene, None Of Those Things, Relativist, Tom Wright, Wycliffe Hall

I like Alister McGrath. There, I’ve said it. It’s not that he was Principal whilst I was at Wycliffe Hall a decade ago and it isn’t that he was my lecturer on DoctrineÂ duringÂ that time, the course that I enjoyed the …

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Cardinal O’Brien – What’s the Real Issue?

By Peter Ould Posted on March 4, 2013 Posted in Church of England, Pastoral, Rome, Sexuality Tagged with Allegations, Apologised, Apology, Cardinal, Church Hierarchy, Complainant, Disapproval, Disclosures, Forgiveness, Frankness, Keith O Brien, Nuncio, Resignation, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Priest, Scottish Church, Sexual Conduct, Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Scandals, St Andrews

Extraordinary news this weekend as Cardinal O’Brien, the most senior Roman Catholic priest in the United Kingdom, admitted “Â there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal”. …

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Choose your Pope

By Peter Ould Posted on March 3, 2013 Posted in Lighter Things, Rome Tagged with Pope, Www Youtube

Spot on.

Bishop David Anderson on Reconciliation

By Peter Ould Posted on March 2, 2013 Posted in Anglican Communion, Church of England, Reconciliation Tagged with Archbishop Of Canterbury, Atonement, Bishop David, Clergy, Common Faith, Conflation, Core Discipline, Core Elements, David Anderson, David Porter, Death Sentence, Edward Stourton, God Almighty, Golf Swing, Human Beings, Jesus Christ, Lambeth Palace, Presumption, Reconciliation, Spiritual Things

I think he may have a point. Now to things more specifically Anglican, such as the new Archbishop of Canterbury’s concept of Reconciliation, and what it means, and did he get it right? In today’s digest of articles we have …

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