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May 15 2007 By virtueonline Atheist Richard Dawkins in conversation with Ruth Gledhill

These are just some of the more surprising confessions to come from the man variously described as Britain's angriest atheist and the self-appointed Devil's chaplain.

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May 15 2007 By virtueonline Possibilities for an Anglican Future? - by Christopher Seitz

In some ways, it gives Canterbury a curious kind of papal individuality, but without any obvious theological or scriptural warrant. At the same time, it undermines the ecumenical capacity of Anglicanism. It is also not clear how the Primates Meeting would bring these various disputants and communion-fractured entities together under a single presidency.

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May 14 2007 By virtueonline African evangelical mission targets U.S. - by David C. Steinmetz

The consecration was part of a response by conservatives to the decision of the Episcopal Church in 2003 to consecrate a divorced gay man, V. Gene Robinson, as the bishop of New Hampshire and to permit, as a local option, the blessing of same-sex unions. The move enraged conservatives around the world, who saw it as a repudiation of Christian sexual morality and, by extension, of the authority of the Bible itself.

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May 14 2007 By virtueonline A TALE OF TWO GOSPELS: What They Have In Common - Gary L'Hommedieu

The classic Christian doctrine of sin is that human beings, made in the image of God, have rebelled against God, forfeited a primeval innocence and inherited a sin nature, which reproduces itself through natural human generation. Now part of the genetic code, the sin nature colors every human action and interaction, including every structure of human organization.

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May 11 2007 By virtueonline The Devil, You Say - by Bill Murchison

This is the problem of evil. It is a theological problem. You won't find it addressed in textbooks on psychology or sociology, least of all on the editorial pages of The New York Times or USA Today. The people who write these textbooks, these editorials, don't grasp what is at stake. To do so, one has to be a supernaturalist -- an underutilized job description in our cyberworld.

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May 08 2007 By virtueonline AAC Celebrates Installation of Bp. Martyn Minns, New Season for U.S. Anglicanism

AAC Director of Finance and Development Doug Mussey as well as AAC Director of Human Resources Mary Orr were also present to help cover the event for the Council.

In his remarks, Anderson congratulated Minns on this new phase of his ministry and assured that the AAC's prayers and full support are with him. Minns, an AAC Board of Trustees member, has been very active with the ministry of the AAC in addition to serving as rector of Truro Church in Fairfax, Va., for 16 years.

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May 07 2007 By virtueonline Polity, polity - by James Shepley

This talk of 'polity', when serious ethical and theological principles are clearly at stake, might at first seem evasive or even frivolous; but this is not so. The Americans are not wrong to take matters of 'polity' seriously. There are fundamental issues at stake; and they are, overwhelmingly American issues, reflecting in the ecclesial sphere disputes which have repeatedly affected the political life of the United States.

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May 07 2007 By virtueonline HR 1592 - The Curtain Coming Down on Democracy

Critics of the bill cite the obvious. HR 1592 is a threat to free speech. The only reason why speech needs protection to begin with is that someone else will find it "hateful" and want it suppressed. As the Founders recognized, dissent of any kind will always be "hateful" to despots. A free society is founded on the faith that good and evil can be distinguished by fair-minded people, and that in the natural commerce of ideas the chaff will be sifted out from the wheat.

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May 03 2007 By virtueonline VIRGINIA: Bishop of Virginia Writes to Diocese

This weekend's ceremony will provide false comfort to those who seek certainty in an uncertain world. But in truth, it will serve only to inflame the differences we have been struggling with. When there is so much that brings us together as brothers and sisters in Christ, in a Church that has always celebrated and respected a wide variety of opinions, it is painful to see our shared ministry and faith overshadowed by our differences.

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May 03 2007 By virtueonline Anglicanism: Vibrant but Unstable, Archbishop Drexel Gomez

He observes that churches are growing in numbers in some areas of the world at a staggering pace. In other parts of the world, ideas are being articulated and debates are taking place with a dizzying energy. We all know that relations - within Anglican churches and among them - are charged, confusing and re-ordering themselves everyday with unexpected direction and even ferocity.

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