When B&B owners are fined for not allowing two sodomites the "right" to fornicate in one of their bedrooms, or a British Airlines stewardess (I won't fly BA anymore) is fired because she insists on wearing a cross around her neck and a medical doctor is fired for talking about his faith to a dying patient, you know England is in trouble. Deep trouble.
Read more"The thin rhetoric of a backward looking president, the obstreperous negativism of an opposition better at rejecting what it hates than building or even conceiving what it needs, the lotus-eating educational formation that cuts us off from our past, and the incessant noise of a superficial pop culture: none of this is worthy of America at its best and none of it will help us now.
Read moreSo the PB believes that orthodox priests and bishops who have fled TEC's apostasies, heresies and pan-sexualities are akin to a deposed bishop and murderous thugs in Harare.
This is hubris beyond hubris. On hearing the news, outraged Episcopal bishops exploded.
Read moreI am now quite recently privileged to inhabit that same seat as chairman at the CEEC that John once chaired, but our actual personal connection goes back to 1981 when I arrived at All Souls as a curate that Autumn.
Read moreWhen you ally the gospel to the extremes of either the right or the left, you do the gospel a frightening injustice.
Kristof writes that in these polarized times few words conjure as much distaste in liberal circles as "evangelical Christian." Sadly he is right.
Read moreShe has allowed the present Bishop of Nevada, Dan Edwards, to take the fall for her.
Read moreListening to him preach, Stott was a study in a man who never wasted a single word in the pulpit. He became, for me, one of the greatest living Bible teachers, pastors, and evangelical statesmen of all time, beloved in the UK, and later in the US where he was regularly featured at Inter-Varsity rallies.
Read moreWhen VOL (then Virtuosity) broke that story in 2003, we discovered that it was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Beneath the stormy academic waves lay a mountain of ice that had dysfunction, sin and more written all over it.
Read moreIn this moment, I am not conscious of my fellow travelers. This is a moment I want to absorb alone. I can imagine the Apostle asking the Ephesians, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?" and hearing their reply, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." Then he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They answered, "Into John's baptism." Then they were told by the Apostle to receive the Holy Spirit.
Read moreThese are the islands where the Great Apostle tells his story of God's saving grace in his life following his Damascus Road encounter, where he preaches about the resurrection and announces the Good News of God's Kingdom.
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