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Day: March 29, 2009

The case for putting 0.7% back into the budget

March 29, 2009 No Comments

By now you have probably heard that the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has sent a draft budget to General Convention that eliminates the 0.7% line item for the Millennium Development Goals. Be not afraid. Be very excited. Why? Because this has provided us a moment of great opportunity — an opportunity to give everyone a vision for prophetic and inspirational living out of our Christian call through our budgets.

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ABC has a word with the BBC

March 29, 2009 No Comments

In a gathering of the Archbishops’ Council, the Church’s executive body, last week, Dr Williams agreed with suggestions that the future of religious broadcasting is under threat.

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Ahmanson becomes a Democrat

March 29, 2009 2 Comments

Kathleen Parker writes: “Ahmanson certainly doesn’t believe that homosexuals should be executed, as some of his critics have suggested, but he does believe that gays should ‘come to Christ and then recover.’ ” But actually, it isn’t his critics who have said this, but Ahmanson himself.

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George Tyrrell’s excommunication still confronts Christianity

March 29, 2009 1 Comment

For Tyrrell, and those who thought like him, Christian faith was not equivalent to its formulation, which of its nature is fixed in a given time. The eternal truths must always be capable of re-expression and this involves an appeal to how individuals relate to God and to the world at any given historical epoch.

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Nearing the great and holy fast

March 29, 2009 No Comments

At all times and every day, dearly beloved, certain signs of the divine goodness are set up before us, and no part of the year is estranged from the holy mysteries, so that, while protections for our salvation meet us everywhere, we may always look more eagerly for the welcoming mercy of God.

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