In 2001 The "Hartford Courant" outlined the alleged misappropriation by Franklin, citing a confidential audit that showed Franklin mismanaged tens of thousands of dollars, using some of the funds to pay for his daughter's Harvard Medical School education and personal expenses including a trip to Colorado as well as dry cleaning.
Read moreIn the words of Paul McCartney, the Fr. Mackenzies of the diocese are writing sermons no one will ever hear because the gay and liberal agit-prop mouthed by politically correct liberal clergy has proven to save no one and nothing.
Read moreVOL spoke with Mr. Tooley about this and other issues facing mainline Protestant denominations that are in general decline.
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And then, they faded from view. Then I was addressing Synod, trying to put a good face on the Covenant, when all these e-mails started pouring in from the Mother's Union and Changing Attitude and some group calling themselves "No Anglican Covenant.com" signed by a bunch of Anglicans across the globe. Suddenly, I found myself weeping in front of everybody. I was so humiliated. You know how I hate to cry....
Read moreThe Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society has formally put into writing, with the force of Canon Law, that TEC is a "hierarchical church" to which all must accede. At the same time, The Episcopal Church claims to promote inclusivity and diversity and more laity input.
Read moreThe judge's ruling can be read here: http://dioceseofsanjoaquin.net/latest/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/F058298.pdf
You can also read a story from the Fresno Bee here: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=13562
Read morePower discovered he had the Midas touch. Within a short space of time, he had 1,700 employees and was making money hand over fist. His business expanded across all the provinces in South Africa, and now expanding into Kenya, Ghana and other Southern African countries.
Read moreThe theme of the Summit will be: "Growing Our Churches, Multiplying Our Impact." "Our dual foci will be to help each congregation and leader in the ADV to reach the lost in their communities with the love of Christ and grow their churches; and to show how even small congregations can help plant worshiping communities on a shoestring, say the bis
Read more"Rather than pray for their enemies or do good to them, most of the primates have attempted an unrelenting scourge of all who do not conform to them.
"The primates have been meeting for only 32 years and would do the world a favor if they disbanded. Their collective gathering has obviously fallen apart in spitefulness and mutual distrust," concluded Crew.
Read moreThe diocese maintains that for nearly 30 years, IRD has publicly stated its goal of "reforming" the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and United Methodist churches along "orthodox" lines, even though it is not accountable to any of those churches.
Each denomination has produced films, documentaries, and exposés about IRD's damaging activities, but each continues to treat the problem as internal discontent rather than as a coordinated assault on religious freedom.
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