CI News: 29 March 2019

Mar 29, 2019 by

from The Christian Institute: In the news this week: You can download the video via this link. Featured stories Former Ofsted chief: ‘Schools should impose LGBT teaching’ Welsh Govt pushes ahead with smacking ban Little evidence medical...

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The West’s Crimes against Persecuted Minorities in the Middle East

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute: The debate in Western Europe about the rights of returning Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists reflects a disturbing sentiment: There appears to be tremendous concern for the well-being of people who...

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A Snapshot of the Global Church

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition: Mark Noll on What This Past Sunday Looked Like. Mark Noll, writing in The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (IVP Academic, 2009): It is as if the globe...

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The Values Foundation – fighting for the family

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by Louise Kirk, The Conservative Woman: WHAT to do when the government steamrollers over parents’ protest and imposes Relationships education on children that would make an adult blush? One answer is to bang the table and protest to...

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Coalition for Marriage voices disappointment after vote on sex and relationships education in Parliament

Mar 29, 2019 by

from Christian Today: The Government has been accused of being “obsessed with trying to force ever younger children to learn sex and relationships” after MPs this week approved the expansion of sex and relationship lessons...

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Is Jordan Peterson an ‘Islamophobe’?

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Tim Dieppe, Christian Concern: World famous Canadian psychologist and best-selling author Jordan Peterson requested a visiting fellowship at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. Visiting fellowships are unpaid and allow the...

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Don’t Ignore The Child’s Perspective On Gay Couples Commissioning Babies

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Katy Faust, The Federalist: Every week or so, another glossy article is published about a gay couple (or single) who has created children with the help of the ever-growing fertility industry.  The latest: “Gay Men Increasingly Turn to...

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The ACNA and the Historic Priesthood

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Alice C Linsley, Virtueonline: This has been a difficult article to write due to the strength of my conviction that women’s ordination to the sacred order of priests is a dangerous innovation that will continue to cause division...

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Court orders Christian to pay $55,000 to trans politician for calling him ‘biological male’

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by Lianne Laurence, LifeSite: A B.C. human rights tribunal has ruled that a Christian activist discriminated against a man who claims to be “female” by distributing flyers that referred to the man, who was running for...

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Lenten Meditations: Friday 29 March

Mar 29, 2019 by

Fri Mar 29 am: 26:1-8 pm: 140, 142 Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 5:1-12 THIRD FRIDAY OF LENT – John Keble, Priest, and Scholar, 1866 LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: John Keble, born 1792, ordained Priest in 1816, tutor at...

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