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PROPER PROVISION FOR OPPONENTS OF WOMEN BISHOPS IS NOT OLD COVENANT LEGALISM 24 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
This first appeared on VirtueOnline in the US: One would have thought the UK publication Evangelicals Now would be supportive of beleaguered conservative evangelicals in the Church of England who wis...
WHAT IF AMERICAN EVANGELIST ARRESTED IN WIMBLEDON HAD GONE TO COURT? 5 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm
Cranmer's Curate has been moved to interrupt his blogging break by the mortifying arrest of American evangelist Tony Miano in Wimbledon this week. One wonders whether the US Embassy in London has prot...
IMAGINATIVE MOVE BY REFORM IN APPOINTING FEMALE DIRECTOR 29 Jun 2013 | 01:16 am
Conservative evangelical network Reform has made a bold and imaginative move in appointing a female - Mrs Susie Leafe - as its first national director. Mrs Leafe is a member of the Church of England'...
McEWAN NOVEL INSTRUCTIVE ABOUT SINISTER 1970S 23 Jun 2013 | 02:14 am
Though it contains some unedifying passages, Ian McEwan's 2012 novel, Sweet Tooth, is instructive about the spiritual and moral disaster that was the 1970s. A short story by the writer whom the main ...
WILL THE BRITISH STATE BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS? 19 Jun 2013 | 11:56 am
Former ConservativeHome editor Tim Montgomerie was in prophetic mood in yesterday's Times arguing that churches must fight to keep their freedom. He concluded: In 1966 it was possible for Time to des...
CANTERBURY'S LORDS SPEECH LEAVES DOOR OPEN FOR SAME-SEX BLESSINGS 5 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm
Welcome though the Archbishop of Canterbury's opposition to the same-sex marriage bill is, Dr Justin Welby's speech in the House of Lords on Monday made some significant concessions that bode ill for ...
MODERATE ISLAM IS STILL NOT A SAVING FAITH 3 Jun 2013 | 05:45 pm
One does not have to agree with the recent, disgraceful attacks on mosques and the inexcusably aggressive behaviour of the English Defence League to disagree with 'moderate' Islam. From a social pers...
HOW RELIABLE IS UKIP ON TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE? 22 May 2013 | 10:05 pm
Though he did not mention UKIP in his now famous declaration against the same-sex marriage bill on BBC Question Time on Thursday, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond articulated very clearly the reason ...
FIRST BAPTISM AT GAFCON-BACKED SHEFFIELD CHURCH PLANT 18 May 2013 | 07:33 pm
The ordination of its minister in the Anglican Church in Kenya in February may have been controversial, but the first baptism at Christ Church Walkley in Sheffield was a great gospel occasion. The ma...
CHURCH EMPIRE-BUILDING: SERIOUS ALLEGATION 16 May 2013 | 07:23 am
Surely the charge of empire-building against a church leader is a very serious allegation. But experience shows that it is made rather too lightly. The allegation is terribly serious because using Go...
