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• Legalise assisted suicide, Kirk minister says

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  A retired Church of Scotland minister is calling for assisted suicide to be legalised so that patients could end their lives "in an ethical and merciful manner". Contradicting the Churchs official stance on the issue, the Rev Dr John Cameron praised the work of Dignitas, the Swiss-based assisted suicide group, and ...
  10 hours ago

• Pastor Rick Warren on Meet The Press

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  MR. GREGORY: We think about Thanksgiving, we think about giving and being thankful for blessings. MR. WARREN: Mm-hmm. MR. GREGORY: You have talked about giving in your own life. Youve acted on giving. You give. MR. WARREN: Yeah. MR. GREGORY: And you say that its not a sin to be rich, but its a sin to die ...
  17 hours ago

• Father Geoffrey Holt RIP

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Most English Jesuit historians have restricted their research to the years of early recusancy, or non-compliance with the religion of state, starting in the late 16th century and continuing to the reign of King James I. Holt chose the comparatively neglected 18th century, about which he wrote with great sympathy and ...
  19 hours ago

• ‘Inaccurate’ Christmas carols have turned birth of Jesus into a pantomime story, claims bishop

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Popular Christmas carols are nonsense and have turned the birth of Jesus Christ into a fairy story, according to a respected bishop. In a new book on the festive period, The Right Reverend Nick Baines, the Bishop of Croydon, claims some of the nations favourite carols are embarrassing and inaccurate. He says the ...
  20 hours ago

• Schmemann on the inversion of Christian love

  
  Torn Notebook — Authority: 402
  Already for centuries, and apparently with a pure conscience, not only individual Christians but also whole churches have affirmed that in reality Christian love must be directed toward one’s own —that to love essentially and self-evidently means to love neighbors and family, one’s own people, one’s own ...
  22 hours ago

• (London) Times Editorial: The crisis in Anglicanism threatens its position in national life

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  In the field of investment the man who is reliably wrong is a twisted genius. A good return is possible if the investor can do the precise opposite of everything that he recommends. The Church Commissioners, the asset managers for the Church of England, have a claim on the title of anti-investors supreme. Stung by ...
  1 day ago

• Ammunition Belt

  
  Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged — Authority: 142
  Later in the day, I have a Church Meeting -- the Churchs highest executive authority. So this week I prepared an agenda, wrote my regular Pastoral Report , and checked past minutes. In addition, I checked "my ammunition belt". While nearly all such meetings are constructive and encouraging, if there is any chance ...
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• An Advent Message from the Bishop of South Carolina

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  It’s a lot like bringing the boxes of Christmas decorations out of the attic or wherever you have them stored. Like pulling the Christmas sweaters from the wardrobe closet—that to my mind is the way the Church, each Advent, drags him out of the liturgical mothballs. His given name is John bar Zechariah. You ...
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• Gary Boal: Praying For Hurting Children

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  From here : LORD there are children suffering at the hand of the evil doer, Lives ruined, souls tormented and in despair. Knowing only sorrow, loneliness, suffering and pain, Crying for help, to feel joy and peace again. Souls are marred on earth for all of their days When wicked prevail in evil ways. Children, ...
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• Serenity Prayer Skeptic Now Credits Niebuhr

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  A Yale librarian who cast doubt last year on the origins of the Serenity Prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and reprinted on countless knickknacks, says new evidence has persuaded him to retain the famed Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as the author in the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations. The ...
  2 days ago

• J. Todd Billings: The Problem with Mere Christianity-Jettisoning ‘nonessential’ theology is bad

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The phrase mere Christianity can be misleading, suggesting we can act independently of traditions that guide our interpretations of the Bible. Its quite American to position ourselves above tradition, Sometimes even denominational churches do this by hiding their theological distinctives, thinking they will narrow the ...
  2 days ago

• (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. ...
  2 days ago

• Channel 4—Colm O’Gorman: Irish catholic Church abuse was ‘systemic’

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Jon Snow talks to Colm OGorman, the Executive Director of Amnesty International in Ireland, who was a victim of sexual abuse perpetrated by a Catholic priest as a teenager. The video link is provided--some 10 1/2 minutes. Watch it all .
  3 days ago

• A Thanksgiving Prayer

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Heavenly Father, on Thanksgiving Day We bow our hearts to You and pray. We give You thanks for all Youve done Especially for the gift of Jesus, Your Son. For beauty in nature, Your glory we see For joy and health, friends and family, For daily provision, Your mercy and care These are the blessings You graciously ...
  3 days ago

• The Canticle of the Creatures

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord, All praise is Yours, all glory, honor and blessings. To you alone, Most High, do they belong; no mortal lips are worthy to pronounce Your Name. We praise You, Lord, for all Your creatures, especially for Brother Sun, who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is ...
  3 days ago

• Im so glad I am part of the family of God!

  
  Shooting the Breeze — Authority: 128
  I think most people who grew in the church are familiar with Bill Gaithers song " Family of God. " Some may find it a bit corny now but I wholeheartedly agree with the message of the song. The truth of this song was demonstrated to me on Tuesday afternoon. Late Tuesday afternoon I started to feel VERY dizzy. So ...
  3 days ago

• “Now Thank We All Our God”: the story behind the hymn

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  I think of Martin Rinkart every thanksgiving; his gift of this hymn is simply stunning given the circumstances in which it was written. Read it all--KSH .
  3 days ago

• African Vestry?

  
  Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged — Authority: 142
  The photo shows the apex of a door in my vestry (you may click on it to take a closer look at the magnificent paint-work). On Sunday, a deaconess said, "We really need to fix the paint in this vestry." I said, "This is Africa. Its an African paint job for an African vestry." She said, "I am a descendant of Europe, and ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Flying High

  
  Urban Ministry Live And Unplugged — Authority: 142
  A good friend of mine says, “A Churchs finances stand apart completely from the world.” This was proved last month, in our Church. In the midst of national economic crisis, our treasurer reported (quote): “Its the best month the Church ever had in its … what? 114 years?” He noted, however: “A little bit ...
  5 days ago

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