Many of the arguments against gay marriage come from Christian organizations suggesting that the recognition of gay marriage somehow infringes upon their religious freedom. This video from the Web site Waking Up examines these claims and dismisses them.
“His Grace, the right Rev Henry Luke Orombi, 7th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, is no doubt a most impressive human being with many achievements. But the four-page supplement, which appeared in the Sunday Vision of March 8 2009, showed much that is wrong with the reality of Christian values in Uganda and with Africa’s “big man” culture in general.”
The leaders of GAFCON have found it within their hearts to recognize the schismatic American and Canadian bishops who pay their bills. As five of the seven Primates on the GAFCON leadership council already support breakaway congregations within the Episcopal Church, this has the effect of an organization declaring that it recognizes itself.
Jonah Lehrer describes a dynamic that should be familiar to travellers in the Anglican blogosphere: “We’re stuck with a mind that reacts to the mundane mundane worries of modern life … with a powerful set of primal chemicals that, once upon a time, were reserved for moments of “fight or flight”. In other words, we treat everything like an existential threat…
The good news is that they are hungry for deeper faith, and thrilled for whatever opportunities the church offers them to learn and to lead. The other news is that their home congregations have done nothing to “support them in their life in Christ” since they were confirmed, and very rarely do anything to help them connect with a faith community when they leave home.
By the observance of these forty days, we have wanted to devote ourselves to this, namely, that we should know something about the Cross in this season of our Lord’s Passion. Consequently, we must try very hard also to be found companions of Christ’s Resurrection, moving from death to life while we are in this body.
“Now it’s quite unusual if you belong to a church; I think people think you’re a bit strange,” says Nicola Ely. “Older people tend to belong, but I don’t think it’s really something for the young. I wouldn’t dream of going to anything if it’s church-based.”
Two articles on the sex talk, both from the New York Times (well, one is from a NYT blog, Freakonomics), caught our attention in the last two days.
It wasn’t so much that the members of the two churches did not get along, Hurd and Cartwright agreed. They just existed on different sides of an invisible wall that ran between one church on Swinton Avenue and the other on Southwest Third Street.