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• Why we should be thankful for Rowan Williams and his church of common sense

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Church of England has taken a pounding from critics, but Rowan Williams has reasons to be cheerful as Christmas approaches, says a leading Anglican historian and commentator Dear Archbishop Rowan, Even though Im not sending Christmas cards this year – ran out of time – you are not going to escape my ...
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• Telegraph: Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes ‘controversial’ Anglican Covenant

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Dr Williams also admitted that parts of the long-awaited Anglican Covenant which deal with sanctions against churches that break traditions or established boundaries are "controversial". But he insisted it would not be used to punish either conservatives or liberals in the bitter dispute over sexuality within the 80 ...
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• Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes controversial Anglican Covenant

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has hailed the publication of a set of guidelines for the Anglican Communion that could see it acquire new members.
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• GUESTVIEW: No king, no bishop? American Anglicans revolt

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 624
  Reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, 13 Dec 1998/Brian Snyder The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors’ alone. Elizabeth E. Evans is a U.S. freelance journalist living in Glenmoore, PA who writes about religion. By Elizabeth ...
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• A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Anglican Communion Covenant

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Take a careful look .
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• Ugandan gay death legislation dance continues

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Mark Silk covers the Ugandan anti-homosexuality act .
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• Should Catholics Decide What YOU See?

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 425
  Well, whether they should or not, apparently they are…. Catholic Church ‘Scared Hollywood Into Dumping His Dark Materials’ (Stephen Adams/The Telegraph; Dec 15) Sam Elliott, the American actor, has accused the Catholic Church of scaring Hollywood producers into shelving the remaining two films in ...
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• Gay Christian group welcomes assurances from Archbishop of Canterbury on Ugandas anti-gay bill

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 675
  The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement has received assurances from the Archbishop of Canterburys office that he condemns the proposed anti-homosexuality bill currently before the Ugandan parliament.
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• Williams, the illiberal archbishop | Theo Hobson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  It is clumsy to link liberal caution about aspects of religion with the militant atheism that wants to mock faith in general In an interview last week Rowan Williams attacked the idea that "religious faith is a problem, an eccentricity, practiced by oddities, foreigners and minorities, and youve got to be very ...
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• Kingsley Smith: Anglican objections have no bearing on Canon Mary Glasspool

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  What many people do not know, and others, Im afraid, choose to ignore, is the legal independence of the Episcopal Church from other jurisdictions. In fact, it was in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1780, that a convention of clergy and laymen began the process of making an American Church separate from the Church of ...
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• Climate Justice Clips: Archbishop Rowan Williams on ‘Fashioning a Christian Response’ to the Climate Crisis

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 657
  Many would have read reports of Rowan Williams wonderful sermon in Copenhagen. Below are some of my favorite quotes. What some may have missed is this fantastic talk he gave. ...
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• Shari’ah Law: A Matter of Belief

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 421
  Georgina Fuller, PersonnelToday.comWith increasing numbers of Muslims employed in the UK is it time for employers to pay more than lip service to Islamic law? Georgina Fuller reports.The furore after Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, suggested earlier this year that integrating some aspects of Shariah law ...
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• Tony Blairs claims on Iraq invasion very damaging, says Archbishop of Canterbury

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Tony Blairs claim that Britain would have invaded Iraq even if he had known there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country is "very damaging", according to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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• British government – religious faith an “eccentricity” practiced by “oddities”

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 128
  Churchill is largely attributed with that wonderful quote on England and America when he said, ‘Two nations separated by a common language’ . In reality there is much that divides the two nations, and a fundamental difference between the two is views of religion as an influence on government. In a recent survey ...
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• ACEN: Copenhagen unites Anglicans hoping to combat climate change

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  As church bells rang throughout the world Dec. 13 to mark Christianitys commitment to combating climate change, Anglican leaders were making their voices heard about global warming in Copenhagen, Denmark. The United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec. 7-18 in the Danish capital welcomed world and faith leaders, ...
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• Harold Meyerson: Anglican angst

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  But a common complaint of American and European conservatives against Muslims is that Islam itself is a monolithic faith unsuitable for the pluralistic West. We dont have to accept this characterization of Islam to recognize that it is close to what Anglican traditionalists are advocating for their own church. ...
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• Canon Gavin Ashenden: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s duty to practising Christians

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  But why might the Archbishop have muzzled his own personal sympathies for the liberal Episcopalian project in America? There are still questions to be asked of our cultural preoccupation with defining ourselves by our sexual attractions and appetites. Many, perhaps most Anglicans throughout the world, are not ...
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• Some Manhattan Signatories Critique Ugandan Legislation (and in Doing So, Give Away Their Game)

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 128
  Various news sites (e.g., the Pew Forum’s Religion News site ) are reporting that the death penalty for gays is back on the table now in Uganda. It’s still in the bill before the Ugandan parliament because the bills author David Bahati, identified by Jeff Sharlet as a member of the powerful secretive ...
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• Where is Richard Land on Uganda?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Richard Land’s passion for foreign policy should not be confined to calling for trade sanctions against Iran. Nothing should stop Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, from joining Rick Warren and a long list of others in opposing Uganda’s gay genocide ...
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• Melanie Phillips: Rowan Williams is right ... treating Christians as cranks is culturally suicidal

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, comes in for a lot of stick - not least from columnists like me. But in the past few days, he has said something important. He has criticised Government ministers for thinking that Christian beliefs are no longer relevant in modern Britain, and for looking at religion ...
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