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| You Should Resign Says House of Deputies President to PA Bishop Charles Bennison | ||
| Published: | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:00:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | You Should Resign, Says House of Deputies President to PA Bishop Charles Bennison Bennison could still be removed from office, says Anderson Witnesses charge that Bennison has learned nothing By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org Sept. 2, 2010  The ultra liberal President of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson, has told revisionist Pennsylvania Bishop Charles E. Bennison that he ought to resign, arguing that to stay on he will only deepen the divisions and discredit the church rather than to bring healing or advance "our common mission."In a letter to five witnesses who testified at Bennison's trial, Anderson wrote that she wishes Bennison would have the "wisdom and generosity of spirit to resign" as bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The HOD President said that when the bishops of the Episcopal Church meet Sept. 16-21 in Arizona, they "will prayerfully consider this matter and either prevail upon Bishop Bennison to resign, or undertake other measures that lead to Bishop Bennison's removal from office." Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Tables turned in Entebbe - Martyn Minns | ||
| Published: | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:10:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Tables turned in Entebbe by Bishop Martyn Minns Sept. 2, 2010 The tables were turned in Entebbe, Uganda this week as hundreds of Anglican Bishops from all over Africa gathered for their second All Africa Bishops Conference (AABC). The first took place six years ago in Lagos, Nigeria in October, 2004 with the theme - "Africa Has Come of Age" - this time the theme was "Securing the Future: Unlocking our Potential". Both the Prime Minster of Uganda, the Honorable Dr. Apolo Nsibambi, and the President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri K. Museveni personally welcomed the Conference. They also hosted a five-course formal dinner at the palatial State House, Entebbe, accompanied by a full orchestra playing revival hymns. Both men turned the tables on the assembled bishops by using the opportunity to both establish their credentials as sons of the East African Revival and also deliver challenging biblically based sermons. Their words were refreshingly direct. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| 'Changing Attitude' Organization Spins All Africa Anglican Bishops Conference | ||
| Published: | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:40:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | 'Changing Attitude' Organization Spins All Africa Anglican Bishops Conference in Entebbe News Analysis By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.com Sept. 2, 2010  Was it a successful, anti-gay African Bishops Conference in Entebbe, asks Colin Coward of Changing Attitude, the Church of England's unofficial gay activist organization?"The bishops who gathered in Entebbe last week think they represent the majority, the true Christians, for whom homosexuality is the most evil abomination imaginable. I do not belong to such a group. If their interpretation of Jesus' teaching leads them to this conclusion, then why should they not leave and form an exclusive church that is cleansed of the evil they imagine?" VOL: Actually, the 400 some bishops from 12 African nations who met in Entebbe DO represent the majority of Anglicans in the Communion. A conservative estimate is that 80% of all Anglicans are Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic - the majority being Evangelical. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| SAN JOAQUIN: Diocese sues for return of Stockton church property | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | SAN JOAQUIN: Diocese sues for return of Stockton church property [VOL: Please observe that this is from the Episcopal Church. We do not have independent corroboration from Bishop John-David Schofield's staff and their side of the story] By ENS staff, Episcopal News Service September 01, 2010 The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin on Aug. 30 filed a lawsuit against the former members of St. John the Evangelist Church, Stockton, to seek return of the church property. St. John's was among 40 congregations whose members disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church in 2007, first realigning with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone and later with the Anglican Church in North America. They refused to relinquish church property. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Tiptoeing Through the Tulips: Lack of Oversight for ECUSA's Lawsuit Expenses | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:10:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Tiptoeing Through the Tulips: Lack of Oversight for ECUSA's Lawsuit Expenses by A. S. Haley Anglican Curmudgeon August 25, 2010 [N.B.: This is Part IV of a multi-part series entitled: "How Did ECUSA Get its Attorneys?" The previous posts are Part I, Part II and Part III.] They can be found here: http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-did-ecusa-get-its-attorneys.html http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/08/leading-church-into-lawsuits-pt-i.html http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/08/leading-church-into-lawsuits-pt-ii.html Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Bishop Lifts Inhibition Against Dean Linder | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:50:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA: Bishop Lifts Inhibition Against Dean Linder Vestry can now fire the priest, says Bishop Waldo By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org September 1, 2010  The Bishop of Upper South Carolina has written a letter to parishioners of Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, SC, saying he is lifting the inhibition against Dean Philip Linder, leaving the church open to relieving the dean of his job.The Rt. Rev. W. Andrew Waldo said in a letter to the parish that he has had several conversations with the Dean and his representatives concerning the next steps in the Dean’s ministry and concluded that was the best course of action. Waldo said the inhibition was necessary to prevent division and discord from being spread within the Cathedral community following the Dean’s violation of pastoral direction on July 13th. “In my judgment, his violation of that direction risked injury to the health of the Cathedral and your witness to the gospel. It could not be ignored.” Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| GROVE CITY, Ohio: New Church Body Formed for North American Lutherans | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 12:10:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | GROVE CITY, Ohio: New Church Body Formed for North American Lutherans Christian Newswire August 29, 2010 A new Lutheran denominational body was born on Friday, Aug. 27, as Lutherans from throughout North America voted overwhelmingly and enthusiastically to form the North American Lutheran Church (NALC). The decision to form the new church body was made at the annual Convocation of Lutheran CORE which attracted more than 1,100 Lutherans Thursday and Friday at Grove City Church of the Nazarene. The Convocation adopted a constitution and elected provisional leaders for the NALC. The Rev. Paull Spring of State College, Pa., was elected as bishop. Spring served as bishop of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for 14 years. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Is America Islamophobic - Attorney, Author, and Pastor Responds to Time Magazine | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:30:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Is America Islamophobic -- Attorney, Author, and Pastor Responds to Time Magazine Article CAROL STREAM, Ill., Sept. 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- Time Magazine's August 30th cover story asks, "Is America Islamophobic?" Attorney, pastor, and best-selling author Randy Singer argues that it's "decidedly not," despite ongoing controversy surrounding the Park51 project in New York and an increase in mainstream media coverage of Muslim-related issues. "Time is trying to paint the American public as Islamophobic when the majority of the public is drawing the line exactly where it should be," said Singer. Singer, whose new book, "Fatal Convictions" (Tyndale House), focuses on the intersection of the Islamic faith and the Christian faith, says that Time's own polls show that while 61 percent of Americans oppose the Park51 project, 55 percent would support a mosque in their own neighborhood. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Scholars and 'Snake-Handlers' | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:00:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Scholars and 'Snake-Handlers' Society of Biblical Literature accused of evangelical pandering-and secular bias. by Bobby Ross Jr. www.Christianitytoday.com September 1, 2010 A professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of California–Berkeley quit the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), voicing concern that North America's leading organization for biblical scholarship had welcomed "the views of creationists, snake-handlers, and faith healers." In an op-ed in the July/August 2010 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Ronald S. Hendel complained that SBL had ended its annual joint conference with the American Academy of Religion (AAR) after 2007 and reached out to "evangelical and fundamentalist groups" to boost its numbers. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| NASHVILLE, TN: St. Andrew's Battles TEC's Legal and Canonical Maneuverings | ||
| Published: | Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | NASHVILLE, TN: St. Andrew's Battles TEC's Legal and Canonical Maneuverings A VOL EXCLUSIVE By Mary Ann Mueller with David W. Virtue www.Virtueonline.org September 1, 2010 St. Andrew's is a spiritually vibrant parish with a long history of problems involving its church building. The Episcopal congregation was founded in 1889 during the height of the Reconstruction Era in the post-Confederate south. St. Andrew's, an Anglo-Catholic parish, is one of 13 spiritual daughters of Christ Church, the mother church in Nashville, which eventually became the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| UK: Tatchell given standing ovation at Christian festival | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | UK: Tatchell given standing ovation at Christian festival By staff writers Ekklesia.org August 30, 2010 The gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has received a standing ovation at the Greenbelt Christian festival. Speaking about "the struggle for queer freedom in Africa", he attacked church leaders who condone homophobic abuse, but praised the "brave, heroic Christians who refuse to go along with the persecution of people who are gay, lesbian or bisexual". Greenbelt, one of Britain's largest Christian festivals, has drawn over 21,000 visitors over the weekend. Tatchell was speaking on Saturday evening (28 August). Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| China: the future of Christianity? | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:10:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | China: the future of Christianity? From Clerical Whispers August 29, 2010  Ever since Deng Xiaoping's relaxation of the Chinese Communist party's (CCP) suppression of religious practice in the late 1970s, Christianity has flourished in China.This has been an unexpected phenomenon, as it has been a story largely unheralded by the western media. While figures are patchy, it is estimated that the Christian missionaries (of whom the first were the Nestorians as far back as the Tang dynasty in the seventh century) that were expelled from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 left behind about half a million people baptised - the majority of whom were Catholics. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| ENTEBBE: Conference Statement from the 2nd All Africa (CAPA) Bishops Conference | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:40:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | ENTEBBE: Conference Statement from the 2nd All Africa (CAPA) Bishops Conference Preamble The second All Africa Bishops Conference, organised by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), met in Entebbe, Uganda, from 23rd to 29th August 2010. Participants included 398 bishops representing the following Provinces: Burundi, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indian Ocean, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, West Africa and the Diocese of Egypt. Also in attendance were some invited partners and guests. The Anglican Provinces of Africa would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Our Lord God for His mercy and guidance during this conference; our host Archbishop Henry Orombi and the members of the Church of the Province Uganda for their kind hospitality and warm welcome; to the President of Uganda His Excellency Yoweri Museveni and the Right Honourable Professor Apollo Nsibambi Prime Minister of Uganda, and the Government and people of Uganda; the leadership of CAPA especially the Chairman the Most Rev Ian Ernest supported by the Secretariat. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Marriage and the New Morality - Russell Shaw | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Marriage and the New Morality By Russell Shaw http://www.insidecatholic.com/ August 27, 2010 Two men wearing tennis whites walk out on the court. Opening a folding table and chairs, they sit down and start to play chess. An attendant rushes up and says, "Sorry, gentlemen, this place is for tennis. You can't do that here." Looking up with a scowl, one of the men snaps, "This is how we play tennis. We have a right." This is a parable of same-sex marriage and the controversy that accompanies it. On one side: Whatever else it is, it just isn't marriage. On the other: To us it's marriage, and we have a right. Traditionalists not uncommonly see here the collapse of morality. That's wrong. The advocacy of gay marriage doesn't reflect a collapse of morality; it represents emergence of a new version of morality that is now locked in a fierce struggle -- in courts, in legislatures, and in the court of public opinion -- with the older version. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| ENTEBBE: ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan Reflects on CAPA Bishops' Conference | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | ENTEBBE: ACNA Archbishop Robert Duncan Reflects on CAPA Bishops' Conference An Exclusive Interview with Virtueonline By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 30, 2010  VOL: What is your overall take on this gathering of African Bishops from 12 African nations?DUNCAN: This, the Second All African Bishops Conference has lacked the clarity of the first All African Bishops' Conference. What I believe we learn from this conference six years later is that Anglicanism without a confession is in a troubled place. The contrast between the spirit of GAFCON and this conference was striking. The prayerful, joyful always aware that God-is-right -here attitude of the African Church was present only when we worshipped or shared relationally. The sessions at the conference were dominated by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and social solutions where the gospel of Jesus is not the driving force. By and large, the folks in Entebbe were the same folks at Lagos and many of the same folks in Jerusalem, but this conference lacked that great enthusiastic spirit that the joy of Jesus invariably displays. Conference presenters were more often good-hearted NGO's, but what exuded and continues to exude from the bishops of Africa was not so often on the podium since bishops were not so often on the podium. The agenda, apart from worship and Bible studies, was far more dominantly social than spiritual. Nevertheless and as always, the Lord did great things for many who shared in the conference and He is able to work all things together for good. (Rom. 8:28) Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| PAOLI, PA: An Open Letter from Good Samaritan, to the Church on Bishop Bennison | ||
| Published: | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:50:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | PAOLI, PA: An Open Letter from Good Samaritan, to the Church on Bishop Bennison Note: Church of the Good Samaritan is the second largest parish in the Diocese of Pennsylvania www.virtueonline.org  An Open Letter to the People of the Episcopal Church, the People of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, Bishop Charles E. Bennison, and the Congregation of the Church of the Good SamaritanAugust 30, 2010 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, With sadness and concern we learned of Bishop Bennison's decision to return as Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. We mourn with any young or vulnerable person; we mourn the fear and anxiety in our own diocese; we mourn damage to the proclamation of the good news; we mourn for those whose faith is shaken and for those who may not arrive at faith. We mourn that his actions, past and current, and decisions in this case bring scandal to the Church and hinder the proclamation of the good news of Christ crucified and resurrected. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| ENTEBBE: Two African Anglican Provinces Say Abandoning US Church is "Wrong" | ||
| Published: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | ENTEBBE: Two African Anglican Provinces Say Abandoning US Episcopal Church is "Wrong" Central Africa and Southern Africa reject ACNA's legitimacy By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 29, 2010 Two African Anglican Provinces - Central Africa and Southern Africa - say they will not go along with CAPA's call to disassociate itself from the Episcopal Church for its actions in consecrating a non-celibate homosexual and a lesbian to the episcopacy. In a letter VOL has obtained, the two provinces say that notwithstanding, the impression being created at the Conference that all Provinces in Africa are of one mind to abandon our relationship with TEC, [we believe this] is wrong. "Painful as the action is it should not become the presenting issue to lead to the break-up up of our legacy and this gift of God - the worldwide Anglican Communion." Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Rwandan House of Bishops Urge Conciliar Process to Resolve Anglican Crisis | ||
| Published: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:30:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Rwandan House of Bishops Urge Conciliar Process to Resolve Anglican Crisis Bishops say Covenant has failed News Analysis By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 29, 2010 The House of Bishops of the Province of Rwanda has sent a dispatch to the All African Bishops Conference (CAPA) meeting in Entebbe calling for new "effective structures" to meet the "ecclesial deficit" in the Anglican Communion. The letter brought by the Archbishop of Rwanda, the Most Rev. Emmanuel Kolini said that despite the blessings here at the CAPA conference, "We the Bishops of Rwanda have great concern about the state of the Anglican Communion and its ongoing disintegration." He described the situation as "acute." Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Rwandan House of Bishops Call for Reaffirmation of Jerusalem (GAFCON)Declaration | ||
| Published: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:40:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Rwandan House of Bishops Call for Reaffirmation of Jerusalem (GAFCON) Declaration Bishops urge new Conciliar Process. Covenant has failed, they say Posted by David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 27, 2010  We write to you with gratitude and humility as we rejoice in our time together in Entebbe, Uganda at the All African Bishops' Conference. Blessed is the Church in Africa to have such gifted leadership in our host, the Anglican Province of Uganda and its Primate, the Most Reverend Henry Luke Orombi. Such blessings continue in the CAPA Leadership and its Chair, the Most Reverend Ian Ernest, Primate of the Province of the Indian Ocean. As we think of this very important gathering we recall that it was only four months ago that many in this gathering arrived in Singapore for the Fourth Global South to South Encounter. Since that gracious time shared, Anglican revisionism in the West continues and the need to "Secure our Future" as Faithful Anglicans has become even more acute. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| ENTEBBE, Uganda: CAPA PRIMATES COMMUNIQUE | ||
| Published: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:40:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | ENTEBBE, Uganda: CAPA PFRIMATES COMMUNIQUE Posted By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 29, 2010 1. In a spirit of unity and trust, and in an atmosphere of love the Primates of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) as well as Archbishop John chew, the Chairman of the Global South, which represents the majority of the active orthodox membership in the entire Anglican Communion, met during the 2nd All Africa Bishop's Conference in Entebbe, Uganda. We enjoyed the fellowship and the sense of unity as we heard the Word of God and gathered around the Lord's Table. 2. We gave thanks to God for the leadership of the Most. Rev. Ian Ernest, Archbishop of the Indian Ocean and Chairman of CAPA and for the abundant hospitality provided by the Most Rev. Henry Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda and the entire Church of Uganda. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Author: More teens becoming 'fake' Christians | ||
| Published: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Author: More teens becoming 'fake' Christians By John Blake, http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/27/almost.christian/index.html?hpt=C1 August 27, 2010 If you're the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a "mutant" form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls "moralistic therapeutic deism." Translation: It's a watered-down faith that portrays God as a "divine therapist" whose chief goal is to boost people's self-esteem. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| UGANDA: CAPA Bishops Conference: From My Ear to Yours (3) | ||
| Published: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | UGANDA: CAPA Bishops Conference: From My Ear to Yours (3) By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 28, 2010 If I had to choose between the revivalism of African Anglicanism versus the liberalism of Western Anglicanism, the answer is a no brainer. Even assuming for the moment that a lot of African Christianity is superficial (false), that it is an inch deep (also untrue), moralistic (also untrue) - one must make a distinction between moralism and true biblical morality. Then the evidence is clear - Anglican churches in Africa are daily being born and growing at a remarkable rate while Western churches are emptying at a rate that will guarantee their extinction possibly within my life time. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| CAPA Apologizes to the Church of Uganda for Financial Aid | ||
| Published: | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | CAPA Apologizes to the Church of Uganda for Financial Aid Church of Uganda www.churchofuganda.org August 27, 2010 In a 27th August letter to Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Ian Earnest, Chairman of CAPA (Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa), apologized for "embarrassing" the Church of Uganda when CAPA received a $25,000 grant from Trinity Grants (USA) for the All Africa Bishops Conference taking place in Uganda. In 2003, the Church of Uganda broke communion with the Episcopal Church (TEC) over their unbiblical theology and immoral actions that violated historic and Biblical Anglicanism and tore the fabric of the Communion at its deepest level. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| All African Bishops Conference Meets in Entebbe, Uganda | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:00:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | All African Bishops Conference Meets in Entebbe, Uganda By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 27, 2010 Not since GAFCON when some 300 orthodox Anglican bishops met in Jerusalem seeking to "reclaim Anglicanism the way we received it," and to institute "the beginning of a second reformation", has there been such a meeting of powerful bishops capable of changing the face of Anglicanism both in Africa and perhaps the whole world. Here in Entebbe, Uganda, the "pearl of Africa", some 400 bishops from 12 African nations have gathered to hammer out the social implications of the gospel for their people. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| HENRY LUKE OROMBI: A Study in Courage | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | HENRY LUKE OROMBI: A Study in Courage COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org August 27, 2010  Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi stands 6 foot five inches, towering over everyone he meets.His infectious smile is a mile wide. For a man his size he could easily intimidate, but he doesnÂ’t. There is an air of commanding humility about him that also brooks no nonsense. When he speaks his words tumble out quickly like bullets from a revolver. His yes is yes and his no, no. There is no middle ground when talking to him. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| A Response to Rt. Rev. Mark Sisk's Letter Concerning the "Ground Zero" Mosque | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | A Response to Rt. Rev. Mark Sisk's Letter Concerning the "Ground Zero" Mosque By Julian Dobbs www.virtueonline.org August 27, 2010 As the debate continues regarding the proposed building of a mosque and Islamic center in lower Manhattan, the Rt. Rev. Mark Sisk, bishop of New York released a letter to the people of his diocese. The bishop begins his letter by quoting Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan who has called for "a civil, rational, loving, respectful discussion," regarding the building of the proposed mosque and Islamic center in lower Manhattan. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Obama and Allah, round two - Terry Mattingly | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:20:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Obama and Allah, round two by Terry Mattingly www.GetReligion.org August 25, 2010 In the spring of 2007, candidate Barack Obama met with a New York Times columnist and discussed his days as a "little Jakarta street kid" who once got in trouble for making faces during Koran classes. Obama proceeded to recite the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic, with what Nicholas D. Kristof called a "first-rate accent." Obama described this chant as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset." This text, in one English translation, proclaims: "Allah is Supreme. Allah is Supreme. ... I testify that there is no god but Allah. ... I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." These lines are known as the Shahada -- from the Arabic verb, "to testify" -- and reciting them, in public, with the intent of becoming a Muslim, is a crucial act in entering and then practicing the faith. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| ENTEBBE: Diplomacy is Dead, Say African Anglican leaders | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:00:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | ENTEBBE: Diplomacy is Dead, Say African Anglican leaders Archbishops will not attend future Primates' meetings By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org August 27, 2010 Diplomacy is dead, say the archbishops of the All African Conference of Bishops, meeting here in Entebbe. In private conversations with Archbishop Rowan Williams and in statements made among themselves the word is this: the African Anglican archbishops and bishops will have nothing more to do with a Western Anglicanism that has embraced a variety of unbiblical pansexual behaviors that have no basis in Holy Scripture. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| Your Church's Apgar:A New Way to Measure Spiritual Vitality | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:50:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | Your Church's Apgar A new way to measure spiritual vitality by Kevin A Miller Christianity Today International/Leadership Journal http://www.christianitytoday.com/ August 2, 2010 In his masterful book Better, surgeon Atul Gawande writes that in the 1950s, newborn babies in the United States faced great danger: "One in thirty still died at birth-odds that were scarcely better than they were a century before-and it wasn't clear how that could be changed." An anesthesiologist named Virginia Apgar was appalled: "Babies who were malformed or too small or just blue and not breathing well were listed as stillborn, placed out of sight, and left to die." Apgar believed these infants could be saved, "but she had no authority to challenge the conventions. She was not an obstetrician, and she was a female in a male world. So she took a less direct but ultimately more powerful approach: she devised a score." Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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| The Pursuit of Misery: Why the Religious Left is Permanently Unhappy | ||
| Published: | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:40:00 -0400 | |
| Description: | The Pursuit of Misery: Why the Religious Left is Permanently Unhappy by Jay Haug www.virtueonline.org August 26, 2010 During the past number of years, American culture has seen an explosion of books, radio programs and movies on the subject of "happiness." NPR has hosted a number of programs on the subject with much interest from callers. Radio host Dennis Prager devotes a major portion of his show to the "Happiness Hour." Several years ago, Will Smith starred in the popular Horatio Alger movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness, (sic)" a "based on a true story" saga about an out-of-luck, divorcing father who pursues a career in the brokerage business while living homeless with his young son. Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org more... |
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