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July 03 2007 By virtueonline CANADA: Anglican Church keeps door open to gays, lesbians

We voted that belonging to the Anglican Communion matters to us and we are committed to the ongoing conversation. Next on the agenda was the St. Michael Report by the Primate's Theological Commission. Asked to give a theological opinion on whether the blessing of same-sex unions is a matter of doctrine, the answer was a clear "yes," but it is not a matter of core doctrine.

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July 01 2007 By virtueonline SCHORI IN JAMESTOWN: Repaving the Road to Hell - Gary L'Hommedieu

Her text was peppered with the familiar sophistries of an urbane clergy. For example, as she retold the familiar stories of Captain John Smith and Pocahantas, she made a point of telling the "real story" behind the familiar legends. Intellectuals have to keep reminding us that they know something the rest of us don't.

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June 28 2007 By virtueonline AN APPLE IS AN ORANGE: The Religion of Ann Holmes Redding

Redding's stated rationale is not the logic I'm thinking of. "I am both Muslim and Christian, just like I'm both an American of African descent and a woman. I'm 100 percent both." This sounds like the sort of subtlety that hides a profound truth. As St. Paul said, there is an element of paradox or "folly" whenever one preaches Christ. For that reason the preacher is forced to rely on the Spirit rather than on the eloquence of worldly wisdom.

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June 28 2007 By virtueonline Tracing the Desolation - Judith Marie Gentle

If we follow this counsel, we must ask ourselves when our Communion began exchanging the Gospel of repentance, salvation from sin and transformation in Jesus Christ for the false gospel of simply affirming people exactly where they are.

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June 27 2007 By virtueonline CANADA: Anglicans dodge expulsion

The reason the bishops blocked the change was not mysterious. The vast majority of Anglicans now live in the Third World. Their African and Asian bishops have warned the American Episcopalian (i.e., Anglican) Church that it must either "repent" or face expulsion from the Anglican communion. This was their response to the decision of the Episcopalians to consecrate an openly homosexual bishop and to bless homosexual unions.

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June 25 2007 By virtueonline Just how important is the Lambeth Conference and who will come?

But then the upcoming Lambeth Conference will hardly be conventional.

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June 25 2007 By virtueonline BISHOPS-"too thick on the ground and causing a big mess"?

Now let us go back in American Anglican/Episcopal history just thirty years to see why the total Anglican situation is much more complex than the situation just described.

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June 24 2007 By virtueonline The Church, the Bible, and the Body of Christ - Albert Mohler

Williams refers to the church as "a community we can trust." As he explains, "Just as we can trust God because God has no agenda that is not for our good, so we can trust the church because it is the sort of community it is, a community of active peacemaking and peacekeeping in which no one exists in isolation or grows up in isolation or suffers in isolation." So good, so far, but surely there must be more than this?

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June 24 2007 By virtueonline Can One Be Both Muslim And Christian?

The article said, "Redding's bishop, the Rt. Rev. Vincent Warner, says he accepts Redding as an Episcopal priest and a Muslim, and that he finds the interfaith possibilities exciting."

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June 24 2007 By virtueonline Is Cuban Religious Freedom Threatened by America?

A letter to members of Congress from 13 denominations and Religious Left groups complained, with no sense of irony, that U.S. travel restrictions on Cuba ""are unfair and inappropriate, restrain religious freedom and reflect undue governmental interference in the exercise of religion." For this crowd, religious liberty is only an important issue when it impinges on their own self-important activity.

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