Anglicans address poverty

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Or, more accurately, Anglicans pester the government to address poverty, because that’s what the Bible says you are supposed to do. For example, in 2 Thessalonians 3:10-13; oops, well in Matthew 26:11; OK, let’s try Matthew 25:40; how about Luke 6:38, Proverbs 14:21, Luke 3:10-11 or Proverbs 28:27 . I know it’s there somewhere.

From here:

As part of a diocesan wide program to encourage the government to take measures to reduce poverty, several MPPs were visited by concerned Christians.  Bishop Philip Poole wrote the following:   “We are fully cognizant of the fact that these are difficult times for our government. It is even more difficult for poor people.”

As part of a diocesan wide program to encourage the government to take measures to reduce poverty, Laurel Broten MPP was recently visited by Ruth Schembri of this parish and Gordon Glandfield of Christ Church St. James along with parishioners from Kingsway Lambton United Church and Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church.   A similar visit was made to MPP Donna Cansfield with Bishop Philip Poole in attendance who wrote the following in his follow-up letter:   “We are fully cognizant of the fact that these are difficult times for our government. It is even more difficult for poor people.”

 

The Anglican obsession with global warming continues

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Since it no longer believes in Hell in the next life, the Episcopal Church can’t very well preach fire and brimstone sermons, so on Sunday, it did the next best thing: it had “a national preach-in” (whatever that is) on global warming in this life.

I can’t help noticing that the participants in the photo have warm coats on.

From here:

On Sunday, Berkeley’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Church took part in a national preach-in on global warming which linked hundreds of congregations across the country together as they reflected on their responsibility towards the planet and social action.

The Reverend Arthur Boone linked the responsibility for Christians to act on the issue of global warming to Christ’s admonition to love one another. Citing Paul’s letter to the Corinthians “Love does not insist on its own way…,” the Reverend argued that the United States, with 3% of the world’s population, cannot in good conscience continue to consumer 25% of the world’s energy resources. “If we are to love our fellow humans, we cannot insist on our own way of consuming ever more energy,” he said.

Richard Dawkins forgets the full title of 'The Origin Of Species'

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Richard Dawkins is becoming an increasing embarrassment to his less strident atheist comrades. For my part, I am glad to see him doing his bit in inadvertently exposing the threadbare reasons for disbelieving in God’s existence.

It is purely speculation, of course, but I suspect that Richard Dawkins is now driving more people towards Christianity than Rowan Williams is away from it, so congratulations are in order.

From here:

Richard Dawkins has been labelled an “embarrassment to atheism” after clashing with a priest in a debate on BBC Radio 4.

The author of the God Delusion could not recall the full title of Charles Darwin’s ‘The Origin Of Species’ during a discussion with Giles Fraser, Former Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, over a poll conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) which found that self-identified Christians didn’t go to Church, or read the bible.

Dawkins said an “astonishing number couldn’t identify the first book in the New Testament.” But his claim that this indicated self-identified Christians were “not really Christian at all” was challenged by Fraser, who said the poll asked “silly little questions” to “trip” people up.

Giles Fraser: Richard, if I said to you what is the full title of ‘The Origin Of Species’, I’m sure you could tell me that.

Richard Dawkins: Yes I could

Giles Fraser: Go on then.

Richard Dawkins: On The Origin Of Species.. Uh. With, Oh God. On The Origin Of Species. There is a sub title with respect to the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Giles Fraser: You’re the high pope of Darwinism… If you asked people who believed in evolution that question and you came back and said 2% got it right, it would be terribly easy for me to go ‘they don’t believe it after all.’ It’s just not fair to ask people these questions. They self-identify as Christians and I think you should respect that.

Boys in skirts

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From here:

Boys should be able to wear skirts to school because  uniforms ‘should not discriminate’, a children’s adviser has claimed.

Tam Baillie, the Scottish parliament’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, has backed 13-year-old Luca Scarabello, who is fighting for a ban on ‘gender-specific uniforms’.

Mr Baillie said that Luca, a pupil at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, who lodged a petition with the Scottish Government in November, had ‘raised important rights issues’.

The public petitions committee (PPC) is considering Luca’s proposals.

In his response to the PPC,  Mr Baillie claimed that forcing uniforms on children could cause ‘serious distress’ for those with gender variants.

The “serious distress” caused by not allowing boys to wear skirts won’t look so nearly so serious when compared to the distress that will come later from encouraging a mixed-up child to pretend he is a girl.

How many children are we prepared to sacrifice on the altar of gender equality political correctness?

Rev. Katherine Ragsdale still thinks abortion is a blessing

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Rev. Ragsdale is Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary of the Episcopal Church. She is a lesbian and in 2011 married another woman. In 2009 she declared that abortion is a blessing.

She was recently interviewed by Laura Ingraham and apparently, she still thinks abortion is a blessing. Having an abortion – even a late term abortion – is “health care” and is to be regretted only in the same sense as a heart operation is to be regretted.

Is this woman mad, evil, deluded, possessed or a combination of all four? I have no idea – you decide. One thing is certain: she should not be an Anglican priest, let alone Dean of a seminary.

Diocese of Niagara performs the Vagina Monologues in cathedral

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Apparently the Diocese of Niagara will try just about anything except Christianity to entice people into its buildings: the place was full for the first time this century.

If you missed it, never fear, there will be a repeat of the fescennine folly at St. George’s Anglican Church, St. Catharines on Valentine’s day.

It’s all part of Living the Vision: coming soon to a church near you.

From here:

I was at the Christ’s Church Cathedral on Tuesday for a special performance of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler’s still controversial (not to mention funny) play about some defining things that make a woman a woman, and a girl a girl.

Throughout the evening words were spoken that presumably had never been heard before in this hallowed space. Four-letter words some of them, with hard consonants, resounding profanely in the Gothic-Revival splendour of vaulted ceilings, stained glass and fluted columns. The hundreds who filled the church on this night would frequently drown out the sound of those words, not with indignant protest but laughter.

I was shocked. You might imagine. A “mainstream” church, with its pews full!?

The cathedral on James North, the centrepiece of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara, was built 1852-1876. Back then they didn’t envision plays in the church, certainly not with such language and content, and certainly not with the lines being delivered by ordained Anglican priests.

Back then, they really would’ve been shocked. You might imagine. But mostly because those ordained priests were … worst outrage of all … women.

Eight of them — female Anglican priests, from Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Guelph, Cayuga, Hamilton. They dressed in black vestments and red scarves, and at least one in stiletto heels.

Some even now will find it offensive that something called The Vagina Monologues was staged in a church, a sacred place, that priests said the “f” word and worse.

Just what the Doctor ordered: a mobile euthanasia unit

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Doctors will no longer make house calls to heal you, but they will make house calls to kill you – in Holland, at least.

In our never-ending quest to conform to a culture of death, the next step will probably be a do-it-yourself death kit available without prescription at the local pharmacy.

We could call it iDie.

From here:

The world’s first mobile team to administer euthanasia in patients’ homes will be launched next month.

Units will be dispatched when family doctors refuse to administer lethal drugs on ‘ethical’ grounds.

They are expected to send the number of euthanasia cases in Holland soaring, with pro-campaigners claiming they will end the lives of an additional 1,000 patients a year.

 

Archbishop Robert Duncan stands with Catholics against abortion

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The Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this.

Archbishop Robert Duncan has made this statement in support of the Catholic Church:

Archbishop Robert Duncan released the following statement in support of the Catholic Church’s fight to maintain freedom of conscience in the midst of the U.S. federal government issuing a preventive care mandate in violation of its teaching.

“The Anglican Church in North America stands by our Catholic brothers and sisters as followers of Christ in a nation whose Constitution guarantees ‘the free exercise’ of religion.  As Christians, our faith and doctrine are at the very heart of our service to others in our community.  Therefore, it is extremely troubling to see our government mandate services contrary to Catholic Church teaching.  I call on all members of the Anglican Church to stand by our Catholic brothers and sisters, and pray for our elected officials to have the courage to stand up for religious freedom and overturn this mandate,” said Archbishop Duncan.

As Archbishop Duncan has called “on all members of the Anglican Church” to add their support, I’m expecting a flood of agreement from Anglican bishops all over North America, starting with Katharine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz.

Or not.

The pathetic truth is that, for all their trumpeting about social justice, both TEC and the ACoC are completely indifferent to the injustice that will define the callous barbarity of Western civilisation for ages to come: murdering their unborn.

Some think many Church of England parishes would collapse without gay clergy

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Since many Church of England parishes are collapsing anyway, perhaps it’s the presence of gay clergy that is hastening their demise.

If the seemingly extravagant “1,500 gay, bi or trans clergy” number mentioned in this article is accurate, it means that Anglicanism in the UK is following in the footsteps of its North American cousin – wilfully flushing itself down the toilet of gender bending irrelevance into oblivion’s cesspool.

With what sensitive, discerning yet piperitious aphorism should one greet this news? “Good riddance” comes to mind.

A coalition supporting the gay and transgender members of the Anglican church is pressing for it to recognise the contribution made by those clergy without whom, it says, some parishes “would face utter collapse”.

The group advocates lifting the ban on bishops in civil partnerships and allowing priests free choice on whether to conduct such ceremonies in their churches, an issue currently being considered by a review group in the church’s House of Bishops.

Reverend Benny Hazlehurst, Chair of the LGBT Anglican Coalition, told PinkNews.co.uk the group would be handing out flyers outside the General Synod at a Silent Act of Witness tomorrow ahead of its meeting with the review group this month.

He said: “If all the LGB&T Clergy were to leave the Church of England, parochial and sector ministry in the Church of England would suffer major trauma, and the parish system in some parts of the country would face utter collapse.”

Rev Hazlehurst said the group estimated there are over 1,500 gay, bi or trans clergy in the country and the LGBT Anglican Coalition was advocating more recognition of these members.