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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)

BBC television plans to close its religion and ethics section. Will the new approach lead to the Great British Pray Off?

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

Equal to what? by Michael Cook, MercatorNet

The Silent Suffering of Gay Men, Christian Post

Bath Abbey sparks backlash as rector replaces 400-year-old morning prayers with ‘contemporary’ service, Telegraph

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

Words of Jesus to be emblazoned on London buses this Easter in new evangelical campaign, Christian Today

Police record anti-Christian crime as ‘Islamophobia’, Christian Concern

Anti-LGBT Doctor Stands Firm in Face of Mounting Criticism, Church Militant

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

 


Westminster attack posts here

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

The Archbishops of the Church of England perpetuate the myth that diametrically opposed beliefs can coexist

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

Stand up to ‘ideology of gender’ like the White Rose stood up to Hitler, German sociologist tells Shrewsbury Catholics

LGBTQ ratings flop: Americans keep rejecting ‘gay’ programming by Peter LaBarbera, LifeSite

The bigger the State, the smaller the parents by Laura Perrins, TCW

Statement by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, on the terrorist attack in Westminster

The Gathering Storm: Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution by Albert Mohler

The GAFCON vision in action

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/sainsburys-refuses-to-sell-the-real-easter-egg-whats-their-problem-with-jesus/

https://anglicanmainstream.org/gay-cleric-jeffrey-john-speaks-out-my-homosexuality-was-the-only-reason-i-was-blocked-as-bishop-of-llandaff/

https://anglicanmainstream.org/sex-and-morality-in-church-and-society/

https://anglicanmainstream.org/number-of-swedish-children-wanting-to-change-gender-doubling-each-year/

https://anglicanmainstream.org/you-wont-believe-what-happened-when-these-people-opposed-same-sex-marriage/

https://anglicanmainstream.org/new-stats-reveal-only-legalising-humanist-marriages-will-give-same-sex-couples-a-meaningful-choice-of-type-of-marriage-ceremony/

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/

 

 

 

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