Tag: Culture
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Preacher Arrested in England for Saying Homosexuality is a Sin
London Telegraph Frank Lockwood, religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the nation that gave us the King James Bible is now criminalizing the very kind of speech contained within the Scriptures.” ++++++++++++ A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is…
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Coptic hierarch takes Episcopalians to task
HT: Byzantine TX Source: Virtue Online A Coptic Orthodox Church observer to the Fourth Global South to South Encounter ripped into the Episcopal Church, stunning some 130 archbishops, bishops, clergy and laity, urging them to say “no to ordination of homosexuals, no to gay marriage, no to such immorality, and that it is time to…
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‘South Park’ and the Informal Fatwa
Wall Street Journal by: Ayann Hirsi Ali The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show’s creators should be taken very seriously. ‘South Park” is hilarious, right? Not any more. Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee—posted a warning on the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com following the…
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How Are We to Respond to Clergy Sexual Misconduct?
How should the Orthodox Church respond to the growing awareness of the harm caused by clergy sexual misconduct? I’m not asking here about policing misconduct but rather how are we to understand misconduct and what, if anything, can we do to lower its likelihood? In what follows, in this post I sketch out a brief…