LLF and General Synod: ‘all fouled up’ or ‘beyond repair’?

Feb 14, 2024 by

by Ian Paul and Andrew Goddard, Psephizo: Summary: The new paper for February’s General Synod lifts the lid on much that has previously been kept under cover in terms of both significant decisions by bishops and the content of legal...

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Ash Wednesday and the consolation of suffering

Feb 14, 2024 by

By Harry Blanchard, TCW: TODAY is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. It is traditionally observed with fasting or abstinence from meat, and many Christians attend services at which their foreheads are marked with ash as a...

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Lenten Meditations: Ash Wednesday

Feb 14, 2024 by

                                 PSALM               OLD TESTAMENT               EPISTLE                   GOSPEL Ash Wed Mar 14 am: 95, 32, 143 pm: 102, 130   Joel 3:1-4:11   Heb 12:1-14   Luke 18:9-14   ASH WEDNESDAY...

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What’s at Stake in Sexual Difference?

Feb 14, 2024 by

Book Review: By Rachael M Coleman, Public Discourse. Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions by Alex Byrne Until everyone, including Byrne, sees that the point of gender ideology is to change our understanding of human being, our...

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Seduced by the Cross

Feb 14, 2024 by

By Kurt Hofer, European Conservative. Do not hurry by the cross on your way to Easter joy, for we know the risen Lord only through Christ and him crucified. There comes a time in every Christian’s life when he first realizes that he has...

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Spreading the gospel, or facilitating hatred?

Feb 13, 2024 by

by Lynda Rose, Christian Today: You can imagine some of the discussion on boats carrying illegal migrants over the Channel, can’t you? “Look, my friend, things are tightening up over there, but if we go along to the nearest...

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Should Universities Protect Campus Anti-Semites?

Feb 13, 2024 by

by Yoram Hazony, Public Discourse: Perhaps the time has finally come for anti-Marxist professors to concede that the liberal theory of the university as a “neutral” forum is too far removed from reality to be feasible. Instead,...

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15 things I have learnt in Christian ministry

Feb 13, 2024 by

by Andy Mason, Psephizo: Of course, as you get older in ministry you look back at where you’ve come from (I’m now 50). You can’t help but reflect on the things you have learnt along the way. And, boy, there are many things I wish I...

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Labour still has an anti-Semitism problem

Feb 13, 2024 by

by Tim Black, spiked: Azhar Ali’s 7 October conspiracy theories remind us that this was never just about the Corbynistas. In September 2022, Labour leader Keir Starmer announced that he had ripped anti-Semitism out of the party ‘by its...

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Ashes or chocolates? Or both?

Feb 13, 2024 by

By Michael Cook, Mercator. Tomorrow is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, a rare coincidence. In the 20th century, this happened in only three years — 1923, 1934 and 1945. This century, it happened in 2018 and again in 2024 and...

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