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May 30 2015
UK: Vicar Criticized for refusing to baptize son of unmarried parents
He added: "Marriage is part of God's way. Historically, it's always been the decision of the church. 'Baptism is a massive deal. We have lost the meaning of what baptism is all about. When it comes to baptism there is a small print. It's not a naming ceremony.
"If I'm standing up and saying 'I want to follow God's way' and God's way is marriage it will always be part of that. I will always hold up marriage as God's way of doing relationships."
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May 28 2015
What difference will women bishops make? Quite a lot, it seems...
The Pagan Federation and the Druid Network have recently become fully-fledged members of Britain's religious establishment, having been voted into the Inter Faith Network UK as a body representative of its community.
Paganism had a "deep reverence" for both the feminine and masculine, not in a partnered but in a "conjoined" sense, she said.
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May 26 2015
Church of England to consider transgender naming ceremony
The motion, which was passed by Blackburn Diocese last month, calls on the House of Bishops to consider whether it should introduce a new service to mark the milestone in the life of a trans person. A spokesperson for the Archbishops' Council confirmed that the motion had been received, but said it would not be debated imminently.
Newlands urged the church to take the lead on welcoming a group that suffered high levels of discrimination.
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May 20 2015
Church of England investment bonanza boosts expansion
Total return investments in 2014 was 14.4 per cent, exceeding the target of RPI + 5 per cent. The fund has grown from £2.4 billion at the start of 1995 to £6.7 billion at the end of 2014.
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May 13 2015
Bishop of Maidstone: 300 CofE congregations oppose women bishops
"I was asked to estimate how many people would be likely to share my theological convictions on the issue of women in ministry, and I said it could be any number and I was just going to have to guess," said Revd Prebendary Rod Thomas on Premier's News Hour.
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May 09 2015
Welby: let's stop pretending all religions agree
But he warned that the pretence that mainstream religions agree on everything is simply "dishonest" and risks leaving them impotent to halt the spread of extremism.
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May 07 2015
Justin Welby: The most common feature of Anglicanism is persecution
Over the last few weeks he received emails from an archbishop pleading for support as his churches were shelled and the paths to them mined -- by violent Buddhist radicals.
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May 05 2015
Appointment of Prebendary Rod Thomas as the Bishop of Maidstone
Prebendary Rod Thomas has served on the Executive Committee of AMiE since 2012. He was a delegate at the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) in 2013 at which the Primates of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans recognized the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE) as an expression of authentic Anglicanism both for those within and outside the Church of England.
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May 02 2015
Dean of Westminster defends inclusion of Muslim prayer in Abbey service
The service, held every year since 1954 and almost every year since 1916, is done with the Australian High Commission and New Zealand High Commission and this year marked the centenary of the ANZAC landings, part of the invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during the First World War. Most of the troops involved were from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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April 22 2015
Church growth: Bishop Broadbent rounds on the critics of Reform and Renewal
A ROBUST defence of the Archbishops' programme Reform and Renewal was delivered at a gathering of Evangelicals last week, addressing critics who have questioned everything from its theology to its methodology.
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