--"Over 40 Christians Killed in Nigeria on Christmas Week"
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--"Christian Population of England and Wales Drops Below 50%"
--"When Thinking a Prayer Becomes a Crime"
--"Church of England's First 'Gender-Queer' Priest Shares Hope of 'Normalizing' It for Children"
--"The Death of Christianity in Bethlehem"
Red flags began appearing a few years ago and have escalated ever since.
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New structures are in place that cannot be denied: GAFCON, the Anglican Church in North America, concordats between the Continuing Anglican jurisdictions, growing orthodox Anglican jurisdictions that never were in communion with Canterbury, Anglican journalists (like David Virtue) who doggedly track and call out falsehoods, and the archived records that reveal the systematic attack on Anglicans who resisted the dangerous innovations of heretics, revisionists, and blundering bureaucrats.
Read moreThe task assigned to me is to suggest how we as faithful Anglicans are to protect and live out in common life and mission, the precious inheritance of Apostolic Christianity which has been given and entrusted to us by God. We are to do this at a time when portions of the Anglican Communion are no longer faithful to that inheritance and when the Communion's instruments of unity and oversight have not proven capable to protect and advance this gift and calling.
Read moreThe first Vatican "insider" to be elected pope since Angelo Roncalli (John 23--hell with the Roman numerals) who had served in the Vatican's diplomatic corps before becoming Cardinal of Venice, Ratzinger lacked the elbows to combat the "gay mafia" which has controlled the papal enclave (of which at least two of his more recent predecessors were members) since the days of the Medici pope Leo 10.
Read more(1) Identify In-House Experts.
The very first step is to identify and consult in-house experts. Most churches have a family physician, general internist, emergency doctor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, psychiatric nurse, or school counselor among them who could share suicide prevention resources and guidance.
(2) Begin a Small-Group Study.
Read more"It's abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Censorship zones purport to ban harassment, which is already illegal. Nobody should ever be subject to harassment. But what I did was the furthest thing from harmful -- I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind.
Read moreThe presents have been opened, Christmas dinner is reduced to leftovers, and thoughts turn to New Year's Eve and beyond. And in America the Super Bowl, Groundhog Day and Valentine's Day decorations now take up space in the stores where Christmas decorations once sat since early October.
Read moreThe celebration of Christ's birth will again become a Sunday event in 2033, 2039, 2044, and 2050. If I live that long I'll be a ripe 101-years-old.
So far, I have seen Sunday Christmases a dozen times in my lifetime. It will be another 11 years before Christmas comes on Sunday again. That will push me into my '80s and the question will be on which side of glory will I be then. Will I still be on earth or will the Lord have called me home to spend Christmas with Him?
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