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August 21 2006 By virtueonline ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY CALLS SUMMIT - by Jack Iker

We are grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for his efforts to broker a cease fire in our current conflicts and to assist us in finding a way to work through the impasse we have reached. If things go well at this initial meeting, additional dates have been set aside to continue our deliberations in the future. Your prayers are asked for the participants as we seek a way forward for a church in crisis.

---The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker is Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas

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August 20 2006 By virtueonline SOUTHERN VA: Bishop Bane Responds to Negative Criticism about his Stewardship

While I did not defend myself and did not attack back, I declined to give in to the pressure and leave at that time and under that kind of pressure as I knew that would be the very worst thing for the future of the Diocese of Southern Virginia.

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August 18 2006 By virtueonline On Homophobia and Abomination - by Ron Ashford

We first highlight some pejorative terms used by some Orthodox, as they began such use many years before it was used against them. While some of these words have a descriptive basis, they are clearly pejorative in the way they are usually used in this dispute. The terms include but are not limited to abomination and faggot.

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August 17 2006 By virtueonline EVANGELISM: A Strategic Response to Liberal Guilt - by Gary L'Hommedieu

There are only a few texts I can think of that, if I had the ability, I would force people to read. One is the article by Shelby Steele excerpted above, which changed my life when I first read it.

In responding to the article a blogger made the following comment:

"White guilt? I'm white and I don't feel guilty about it. Maybe you should call it liberal guilt."

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August 17 2006 By virtueonline Activist Episcopal Laywoman Rebuts Theologians on Middle East War

The hated of Jews by Muslims predated the creation of the State of Israel by some twenty years. Groups of Zionists took advantage of PM Balfour's 1921 declaration that they could immigrate to the terrify that Britain was ruling as The Mandate of Palestine. They lived in kibbutz located on semi-arid land that no one had been living on.

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August 14 2006 By virtueonline Our Passions and the Promiscuous Church - by David V. Hicks

At the time, I knew nothing of Mr. Robinson's sexual preferences, and it was not his oblique references to homosexuality that alarmed me so much as his implication that God allows, nay, smiles upon whatever we choose to do in the name of love. There was a malevolently yet seductively twisted logic in his argument.

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August 14 2006 By virtueonline Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins

Embraced by the leadership of all the mainline Protestant denominations, as well as large segments of American Catholicism, liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church.

Instead, as all but a few die-hards now admit, all the mainline churches and movements within churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are demographically declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating.

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August 13 2006 By virtueonline Christ's Atonement and the Middle East Conflict - by Robert Sanders

My purpose in this essay is to relate this sermon to Christ's atonement, to the Middle East, and to political conflict in general.

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August 10 2006 By virtueonline Can the Archbishop of Canterbury intervene in the internal life of the ECUSA

However, some issues within a local province have external or Communion-wide implications. In these instances, issues that might otherwise be handled autonomously so affect the larger Communion, that for the sake of communion, the larger Communion must have a voice in the matter. When this is so, the interdependence of communion comes into play, and we emphasize the communion side of the phrase.

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August 08 2006 By virtueonline Anglican Realignment & Reformation: "Unending Verbosity over a Simple Matter

Before I attempt to answer that question, I invite you to read Network Moderator Bishop Bob Duncan's Council address very carefully. See the ACN website (http://www.acn-us.org) for the full text of his address. Yes, you will need to take some time to prayerfully think through it for Bishop Bob gives his comprehensive view of the state of the Church in this address.

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