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• A Conversation with Pastor Rick Warren

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  From Pew Forum The evangelical Christian movement historically has been defined by its members distinctive doctrinal standards and practices. Yet in recent years many Americans have come to understand evangelicals more by their political, rather than religious, identity. The Pew Research Centers Forum on ...
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• The Bishop of Bristol’s Diocesan Synod Address

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Good morning. What I have been asked to do this morning is to report on where we are at this point of time in the Anglican Communion. It’s a fairly complicated picture so I hope I will be given the gift of clarity as I talk to you about this. Since the last time I reported to Synod on these matters, six things have ...
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• Church of England set to lose a tenth of its clergy in five years

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Ruth Gledhill and Tim Glanfield, Timesonline The Church of England is facing the loss of as many as one in ten paid clergy in the next five years and internal documents seen by The Times admit that the traditional model of a vicar in every parish is over.   The credit crunch and a pension funding crisis ...
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• CEN: Anglican Church of Uganda mulls new law

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The Church of Uganda has come under fire from gay activists in the UK for failing to speak out against a proposed law that would toughen the East African nation’s sodomy laws. However the furore in church circles over the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” speaks more to the rift between the African and Western ...
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• (London) Times: Church of England set to lose a tenth of its clergy in five years

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The Church of England is facing the loss of as many as one in ten paid clergy in the next five years and internal documents seen by The Times admit that the traditional model of a vicar in every parish is over. The credit crunch and a pension funding crisis have left dioceses facing massive restructuring programmes. ...
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• Ugandan church mulls new law: CEN 11.27.09 p 18.

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  The Church of Uganda has come under fire from gay activists in the UK for failing to speak out against a proposed law that would toughen the East African nation’s sodomy laws. However the furore in church circles over the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” speaks more to the rift between the African and Western ...
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• Catholic Herald: Bishops prepare to receive Anglicans

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The bishops of England and Wales have set up a commission to prepare the ground for an exodus of possibly thousands of disaffected Anglicans into the Catholic Church. The move was announced in London as Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, protested in person to the Pope over the way the Vatican announced ...
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• Faith schools ’strong on community cohesion’

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  From BBC News Secondary schools run by faith groups are better than non-religious schools at building community relations, research in England suggests. A study funded by the Church of England found faith schools were rated higher than others by Ofsted inspectors on what is called "community cohesion". The ...
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• Personal Ordinariates and UK Property Issues

  
  Wannabe Anglican — Authority: 126
  I have been hoping that property issues surrounding Church of England Anglo-Catholic parishes that decide to cross the Tiber would be handled in a gentlemanly manner. But I am now afraid “hope” is the operative word.[R.C. Archbishop Vincent Nichols] added that Dr Williams had already ruled out the purchase of ...
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• Global warming ‘is new CofE religion’ : CEN 11.27.09

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper. Global warming is the new faith of the Church of England, a Tory MEP declared last week. Writing in the Leicester Mercury on Nov 16, East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer stated the “Church of England seems to have abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the ...
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• Indian Government blocks church sales: CEN 11.27.09

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper . The Government of India’s Maharashtra state has ordered the halt of all sales of Anglican Church property, pending an investigation into insider dealing and corrupt practices in the administration of church lands in the Diocese of Bombay. Last week Maharashtra ...
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• revised advice on swine flu

  
  Thinking Anglicans — Authority: 546
  26 November 2009 Dear Bishop, In July, during the first wave of the Swine Flu pandemic we issued national advice with regard to the administration of Holy Communion. This advice was based on information and guidance received from the Department...
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• Church urges the Indian government to ban GM foods: CEN 11.20.09 p 5.

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper.   The Church of South India (CSI) has urged its government to ban the cultivation of Genetically-modified (GM) foods in India. On October 15, the Indian government’s Genetic Engineer Approval Committee (GEAC) authorized the commercial cultivation of Bt ...
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• Spirituality advisers meet for first time in 10 years – ChristianToday

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Spirituality advisers meet for first time in 10 yearsChristianTodayA national gathering of Church of England spirituality advisers met at Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, last week to explore spirituality as mission. …read the full article
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• New lawsuits filed in US church disputes: CEN 11.20.09 p 6.

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Episcopal Church’s legal wars continued unabated last week, with new lawsuits in Tennessee, and appeals filed in Pittsburgh, Georgia and San Joaquin. The Diocese of Tennessee on Oct 30 filed suit against St Andrew’s Church in West Nashville, asking a state ...
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• Utility urged to drop new coal-fired plants: CEN 11.20.09 p 5.

  
  Conger — Authority: 133
  First published in The Church of England Newspaper . The Archbishop of Cape Town has urged the nation’s electric utility, Eskom, to rethink its plans for building new coal-fired electricity generating plants, saying South Africa should do its part in helping reduce global warming. In a statement released on Nov 6 ...
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• Damian Thompson—Vicar threatened with violence if his parish goes over to Rome

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The vicar of an Anglo-Catholic church has received a threatening phone call warning him of violence if his parish goes over to Rome – and his noticeboard has been defaced with the words “C of E No Pope” daubed across it in white paint. Fr David Waller of St Saviour’s, Walthamstow, discovered the vandalism on ...
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• Anglican bishops: wear Christian symbols at Christmas

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 157
  By Andrew Pierce, Telegraph Two prominent Anglican bishops have urged Christians to turn back the tide of political correctness by wearing religious symbols during the Christmas period. The Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, the Bishop of Lichfield, told worshippers to wear crosses or fish symbols to demonstrate that ...
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• CNS: Pope, Anglican leader pledge to continue dialogue for unity

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Asked for the popes reaction, the archbishop said, "the main message was that the constitution did not represent any change in the Vaticans attitude toward the Anglican Communion as such." As for the issue of ordaining openly gay men and blessing gay marriages, which a few Anglican provinces have done, Archbishop ...
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• Why Are We Waiting? – Ready Steady Slow…

  
  Robb's Blog — Authority: 112
  Check out this online Advent initiative. http://www.whywearewaiting.com/
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