News and views on the royal wedding
December 9, 2010
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If you’ve not heard, there’s to be a royal wedding this spring to rival that of Charles and Diana. Here’s just a sampling of the
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Is this the end of the Anglican Covenant?
December 9, 2010
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The General Synod’s vote on the Anglican Covenant (Synod, 26 November) had been well prepared. The organisers made it clear that voting in favour was The Right Answer. Contrary to normal practice, nobody was given the task of summarising the case against, either in the prior paperwork or in the debate itself. The GAFCON Primates [announcement] then turned it into farce.
Assorted links
December 9, 2010
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Reasons for the acceptance of gays in the UK military, African poverty is falling, mortality/wealth progress, a new reason to give in secret, endowed professorship in theology and the environment, General Seminary in the news, Young Adult Service Corp applications.
Kill Gays bill author enters US, appears on Maddow
December 9, 2010
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Bahati said that there was substantial evidence that gays recruited children including the assertion that $15 million of foreign money has been poured into Uganda for that purpose. He commended the editors of a Ugandan tabloid for publishing the photos of allegedly gay Ugandans saying that he would hope that in the future the police would use articles like these to hunt down gay people.
Fully born
December 9, 2010
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A door opens in the centre of our being and we seem to fall through it into immense depths which, although they are infinite, are all accessible to us; all eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.
C of E dioceses face consolidation
December 9, 2010
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The report recommends that there should be a single diocese, instead of the current three, covering West Yorkshire and those parts of the Dioceses of Bradford and Ripon & Leeds that are in North Yorkshire.
Twitter goes both ways
December 9, 2010
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“We tested a handful of churches to see how well they were listening on Twitter. The results were painful, with only one out of 11 churches bothering to reply. Your church doesn’t need to be on Twitter, but if you’re on there (and promoting it on your home page), you should at least be paying attention when people send you messages.” – CMS
Why even bother being good?
December 9, 2010
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Right now I’m teaching parables with my fourth grade class, and they are really bothered by the injustice of God’s love and mercy. It makes them crazy to contemplate that even though they try to be good, God loves someone bad just as much. Fairness is the highest value to kids that age, and to imagine that God isn’t fair—that’s just too much.
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