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Further issues: As some readers are still having difficulty with missing pages, new posts from 3 April will be linked here. (Newest at the top)
Why big churches aren’t led by women, Church Times
There’s a Hysterical, Paranoid War on Fatherhood – and It Hurts All Of Us, HeatStreet
Radio 4 host says the BBC’s coverage of religion is a ‘mess’ because liberal staff are ‘dangerously out of touch‘, Mailonline
Revealed: girl aged six among victims of ‘honour crime’ in London, Evening Standard
US free speech bus tour, CitizenGo
Has Trump’s air-strike on Syria further betrayed Syrian Christians? Global Christian News
CI News: 7 April 2017, Christian Institute
Europe is dying on its feet, but mass immigration is not the answer by David Kurten, TCW
Diversity is Not a Cult—But What is It? by Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine
Sheffield gets its second best bishop – Pete Wilcox, Dean of Liverpool by Archbishop Cranmer
Texas grandmother fights LGBT curriculum, Soundcloud
On being a gay man and a conservative Christian at the same time – why this theology can be a ‘gift to the church’, Christian Today
‘Wrongful Births’: The NHS spends millions in compensation… for babies being born, CMF
More evidence of the immense importance of marriage and biological parents, Iona Institute
It’s Barbaric, Evil and Time for Us to Get up and Do Something, Franklin Graham, Charisma
Ontario sets up ‘death hotline’ to force doctors to comply with having patients killed, LifeSite
Lenten Meditations 7 April
Target CEO admits policy announcement was huge mistake, AFA
Should we be bothered about losing ‘Easter’? by Ian Paul, Psephizo
Germany to dissolve child marriages, Telegraph
Women queue up to condemn arts centre’s unisex lavatories, The Times (£)
NHS Scotland: ‘Ditch boys and girls, kids can be gender fluid’, Christian Institute
Muslim Babies Likely to Outnumber Others by 2035, Report Says, New York Times
New part-time residential Ph D study programme for Christian leaders
Canadian Senate poised to adopt ‘gender neutral’ national anthem, LifeSite
Trump picks Christian pro-life conservative to replace homosexual as Army Secretary, LifeSite
The Absurdity of Transgenderism: A Stern but Necessary Critique, Public Discourse
Celebrating Palm Sunday on Jesus Green
The Silent Suffering of Gay Men, Christian Post
Catholic university supports abortion, suspends prof for calling it murder by Lisa Bourne, LifeSite
Gender justice and LGBT equality: Martyn Percy demands female cardinals and gay imams by Archbishop Cranmer
The triangle of truisms: Father, mother and children, Business Day Editorial
Tories ditch backing for parents who stay married by Steve Doughty, Mailonline
Finally, a long-term social justice plan from Ministers – but note the missing M-word: marriage by David Burrowes, Conservative Home
The Rainbow Ringwraiths by Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch
Stonewall calls for ‘gender X’ option on passports BBC News
The Big Shut-Up, Mark Steyn
Easter eggs and how the National Trust is turning our glorious heritage into dumbed down theme parks, Mailonline
Trump is ‘trying to erase’ us: Gay activists furious that 2020 Census won’t ask about LGBT, LifeSite
Lenten Meditations: Tuesday 4 April
Not a matter of opinion: Discernment, difference and discrimination, Modern Church
Archbishop Justin Welby’s Global Anglican Strategy: Neutralize GAFCON by David Virtue, VOL
New part-time residential Ph D study programme for Christian leaders
Government grant given to help vulnerable pregnant women: women’s groups outraged from SPUC
The Perils of Religious Liberty, First Things
Religion now the butt of workplace humour as sexist jokes have become taboo, survey finds, Telegraph
Church crisis as generation of older helpers is dying out, Mailonline
Lenten Meditations: Monday 3 April
Calling on cricketers for C of E team by Paul Handley, Church Times
Why Trump is the Good Samaritan, by Lord Carey by Tammy Hughes, Mailonline
The Muslim Brotherhood: Peddling Sharia as Social Justice by Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute
Women bishops: the desperate and disingenuous distinction in the Five Guiding Principles by Archbishop Cranmer
Second complaint over ‘abusive and derogatory’ comments against gay cleric as pressure builds on Church in Wales by Harry Farley, Christian Today
North Carolina ‘bathroom’ law: Lawmakers pass repeal bill, BBC News
HSBC to offer customers choice of ten titles to show they are gender neutral by Katie Morley, Telegraph
Christian campaigner welcomes High Court’s desicison on assisted dying, Premier
Christian nurse sacked for offering to pray with patients was just showing ‘compassion’, tribunal hears by Olivia Rudgard, Telegraph
Electing the Bishop of Llandaff: Propriety and Privacy by Philip Jones, Ecclesiastical Law
After London, a question returns: At what point does terrorist coverage just encourage more attacks? by Ira Rifkin, Get Religion
Secularism is not neutral by David Robertson, Evangelical Focus
Cowardly academics undermine freedom of speech at universities, Chris Sugden, CEN
Reformation Anglicanism – a Vision for Today’s Global Communion: book review by Chris Sugden, CEN
Christians, don’t quit the game at halftime! by Michael Brown, WND
Imam given space to worship at an Anglican church justifies the KILLING of Muslims who renounce their faith by Stephen Johnson, Mailonline
Planned Parenthood Director Caught Admitting Babies Born Alive After Abortion are Killed by Steven Ertelt, Life News
Tribes, tensions and gay marriage: What’s the future for the Church of England? by Joseph Hartropp, Christian Toay
TYRANNY: California Criminally Charges Undercover Reporters Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Baby Body Part Sales. Where’s The Outrage? by BenShapiro, Daily Wire
Supporters of traditional marriage are being treated as ‘bigots’, C4M
May invokes Article 50: may our second national revolution be as glorious as the first by Archbishop Cranmer
Divorce is not a pick-and-mix affair by Andrew Tettenborn, TCW
If the government is serious about cracking down on “safe spaces”, it should begin by looking at the example it sets by Jacob Furedi, Telegraph
Archbishop Kwashi urges government to defend Christians against Fulani terror, Global Christian News
Anglican Unscripted #279 – ABC & York pass the pound with Kevin Kallsen and Gavin Ashenden
ISIS release images from public execution by Gareth Davies, Mailonline
Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law by Jeff Shafer, First Things
Gnostic Liberalism by Robert P George, First Things
Athanasius, Irenaeus, and the Church of England Bus by Gavin Ashenden, AAC
Lenten Meditations: Wednesday 29 March
Encountering contemporary liberal theology – in its own words by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream
Anglican Unscripted #279 – ABC & York pass the pound
When the Law Opposes the Truth Rather Than Protects It by Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute
Lord, open the King of England’s eyes! by Peter Jensen, Gafcon
The Evil that Men Do by Marcus Paul – Book Review by Pippa Smith
Rachel Dolezal: ‘The idea of race is a lie’, BBC News
What Exactly Is the “Toxic” Effect of Tim Keller’s Theology? by Owen Strachan, Patheos
The Rise of the Victim Bully by Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative
CANADA: Diocese of Niagara Parish Offers Islamic Prayers to Allah by David Virtue, VOL
Lenten Meditations: Tuesday 28 March
Church of England to create bishop for minority ethnic community
Vimeo Allows Jihadists and Porn But Shuts Down Ex-Gay Christian Testimony by Michael Brown, Christian Post
Islam; The Coming Universal Religion ? by Edo Pivčević, Salisbury Review
Bishop of Sheffield: Martyn Percy asked for bread; Sentamu and Welby give a stone by Archbishop Cranmer
Taken for a Ride? Islam and Religious Liberty by William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine
Unlike Islam, Christianity doesn’t welcome converts by Jane Kelly, TCW
Lord Carey: ‘I’m praying for jailed Marine A Sergeant Blackman’ by Harry Farley, Christian Today
Ten Years of International Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Laws: Lessons Learned by Daniel Moody, Public Discourse
Presiding Bishop Curry Offers Theological Reflection on Transgender Rights, Anglican Ink
Psychiatry Professor: ‘Transgenderism’ Is Mass Hysteria Similar To 1980s-Era Junk Science
Lenten Meditations: Sunday 26 March 2017
Making eugenics acceptable again by Michael Cook, BioEdge
Are we an institutionally homophobic church? by Jayne Ozanne, Via Media
Joseph Nicolosi: The Man Who Would Heal All the Wounded Boys by Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine
Bishop steps down after speaking of campaign forcing him to quit by Harry Farley, Christian Today
Lenten Meditations: Saturday 25 March
A Week of Terror and Diversity in Europe by Daniel Greenfield, frontpage magazine
Archbishops launch investigation into Philip North row after ‘highly individualised’ attacks by Harry Farley, Christian Today
Forward in Faith welcomes reference to the Independent Reviewer
How to spot an ideologue, MercatorNet
To Win Back What We’ve Lost: How Defenders of Religious Freedom Are Fighting to Reclaim International Law by Benjamin Bull, Public Discourse
Canada passes motion to silence critics of Islam by Pete Baklinski, LifeSite
The Origin of “Fake News” in Holocaust Denial by Alan M Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute
In the midst of grief, still confusion by Melanie Phillips
Gender Identity Policies in Schools by Ryan Anderson and Melanie Wood, Heritage Foundation
In Denial about Islam, by William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine
Lenten Meditations: Friday 24 March
Why Princeton’s snub of Tim Keller should outrage progressives by Jonathan Merritt, RNS
The XX Factor, Commentary Magazine
LGBTQ ratings flop: Americans keep rejecting ‘gay’ programming by Peter LaBarbera, LifeSite
The bigger the State, the smaller the parents by Laura Perrins, TCW
The Gathering Storm: Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution by Albert Mohler
Pray for Westminster: the injured, the bereaved and the traumatised by Mark Woods, Christian Today
When Policy Preferences Masquerade as Rights, Crisis Magazine
Lenten Meditations: Thursday 23 March
On leaving the Church of England Canon Gavin Ashenden
Same-sex marriage is a flop, numbers confirm, C4M
Conservative vicar calls on bishop to ‘repent’ over thanksgiving for gay couples, Harry Farley, Christian Today
How Is It Fair When a Male Weightlifter Competes Against Women? by Michael Brown, Charisma
What your children are not being told at their local ‘Safe School’, Lyle Shelton, ACL
The Demise of Language and the Rise of Cloning, Public Discourse
Church in Wales being hounded to appoint Jeffrey John the next Bishop of Llandaff, Archbishop Cranmer
MPs must wake up to the sex-selective abortion nightmare, Caroline Farrow, TCW
Welsh MPs write to the Bishops of the Church in Wales, Thinking Anglicans
Christianity in Iraq is finished, says Canon Andrew White, ‘vicar of Baghdad’, Fox News
Lenten Meditations: Wednesday 22 March
Philip North and Jeffrey John: A Church that is more ‘via muddle’ than ‘via media’ by David Baker, Christian Today
Small village church punches above its weight with parish mission by Andrew Symes, AM
Interfaith Worship, Beyond Belief
Generation Z Most Conservative Since WWII?
How should I respond to sub-Christian mottos like “Good Disagreement” and “Radical Inclusion” Transforming Grace
Egg freezing is not all it’s cracked up to be by Philippa Taylor, TCW
The Media’s Cheery Ignorance about Islam’s Hostile Ideology A Z Mohamed, Gatestone Institute
‘Safe Space’ for LGBT Christians Diocese of Lichfield
https://anglicanmainstream.org/bishops-liaison-officer-for-lgbti-community-appointed/
Anglican Unscripted – Kevin Kallsen and Gavin Ashenden
https://anglicanmainstream.org/hate-crime-through-the-looking-glass/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/chelsmford-parish-push-back-against-normalizing-gay-marriage/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/sex-and-morality-in-church-and-society/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/the-new-normless-the-toll-of-relativism-on-our-kids-2/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/gains-in-womens-rights-havent-made-women-happier-why-is-that/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/repurposing-europe/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/the-historical-christian-roots-of-marriage/
https://anglicanmainstream.org/losing-our-religion-signs-of-the-times/