When defined based upon a consistent set of theological perspectives, evangelicals remain very united on abortion and homosexuality…. However, concerns about same-sex relationships are less unifying and less troublesome to the broader born again constituency. Born agains are far less concerned about homosexuality than they are about abortion.
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The newly appointed president of the Standing Committee of San Joaquin of the Province of the Southern Cone is Mr. Ted Yumoto. At present The
I find myself pitying the friends of my youth, who died when we were twenty-five years old, because whatever may be the richness of the life to which they have gone, and in which they have been living ever since, they never can know that particular manifestation of Christ which He makes to us here on earth, at each successive period of our human life
The gift of Native Americans to the civil rights movement is the gift of a tiny minority fighting for its legal rights against overwhelming odds. Long before there were sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, there were Native activists fighting for justice in the Supreme Court. President Andrew Jackson ignored the verdict in one of these cases when he herded my ancestors on a death march.
At the meeting the laity insisted that the elections would not go ahead and that the synodically agreed Provincial Court was the correct procedure. The archdeacons were publicly asked why they had connived with Bishop Chama to support calls for a new election, to which their response was “we have been threated by Bishop Chama that if we do not agree we will lose our jobs”.
Videos of the Lambeth 2008 opening press conference are now on youtube. The purpose of the Lambeth Conference 2008 is to enable the Bishops of the Anglican Communion to discern and share more deeply their Anglican identity, and to become even better equipped for their Christ-given task of being leaders in God’s mission.
Bishop Peter Lee of Virginia has released a statement detailing the reasons that he did not consent to the inhibition of Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh. Bishop Lee explains that he feels this case is not, at the moment, the same situation as the one in the Diocese of San Joaquin.
The current study adds to this literature by demonstrating that, controlling for demographic differences, gay males and lesbians in our studies were generally not distinguishable from their committed heterosexual counterparts
The EPPN alert noted that Native American infant mortality is 150% greater for Indians than for Caucasian infants. Indigenous people are 650% more likely to die from tuberculosis and 318% more likely to die from diabetes compared with other groups.