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May 31 2007 By virtueonline Putting one's money where one's mouth is? - Robert Gagnon

Haberer seems unaware that free speech rights even in this country do not extend to "intimidation"; that is, to words or conduct that the alleged victim perceives as threatening. It is through such a loophole that hate crime legislation can be used to override free-speech protections.

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May 27 2007 By virtueonline "I am in this fight...I have no other choice" - Keith Ackerman

But the second thing is, that when I wear my miter is you recognize what hangs down the back, the two lappets. When I was consecrated a Bishop, the Bible was laid on my head, and the Bible markers, one came out of the Old Testament, one out of the New Testament, were hanging right down the back.

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May 24 2007 By virtueonline Continuing What? Spiritual Roots of Continuing Church movement

The Continuum, however, holds in its hands the keys of its own restoration. These are the same keys that form the cornerstone and foundations of the worldwide Anglican Communion - namely, the Faith of Jesus Christ set forth in Holy Scripture, and the doctrines of Scripture set forth for our use and edification in the Anglican Formularies: the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion and the classic 1662-1962 Book of Common Prayer together with the Ordinal.

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May 21 2007 By virtueonline Popular Histories and the Decline of the Church of England

Following much united prayer, a strong awareness of the presence of God was felt in Britain, and in London it brought the poorest into experiences of God's love. To meet the hunger to hear the Good News, various groups with the support of Dr Tait, the Bishop of London, arranged Sunday night theatre services. One group using both St. James's Hall and the Britannia Theatre attracted 250,000 working class worshippers each winter.

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May 18 2007 By virtueonline Christianity: Public Religion and the Common Good - Rowan Williams

This kind of secular approach has its origins in the European Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After a period of savage religious wars, there was a strong and understandable desire to avoid further conflict over religion, and a deep suspicion of religious authority as oppressive and irrational.

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May 16 2007 By virtueonline Why some evangelicals decide to forego creation care

I believe that, through Christ, God created the heavens and the earth. The created order includes an amazingly beautiful and diverse array of creatures (including us) as well as the natural systems required to sustain their (our) existence. When God made the world he commanded human beings to exercise dominion-as-stewardship; that is, he commanded that we care for creation as wise managers of the created order.

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May 16 2007 By virtueonline ARCHBISHOPS ARGUE OVER LAMBETH RESOLUTION 1:10

Section 1: Called to Full Humanity

Human Sexuality.

Comments on Archbishop Ndungane and Resolution 1.10.

By Colin Bazley

It is best to start with a short account of the Conference as I saw it from the point of view of a participant in the Group dealing with Human Sexuality..

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May 15 2007 By virtueonline The 39 Articles of Religion

III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell. As Christ died for us, and was buried, so also is it to be believed, that he went down into Hell.

IV. Of the Resurrection of Christ. Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature; wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day.

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May 11 2007 By virtueonline Homosexual Unions: Rare and Fragile

The legal equivalence of homosexual unions to heterosexual marriage indeed largely explains why the researchers use "the terms registered partnerships and same-sex marriage interchangeably." Similarly, the researchers "use the term divorce to refer to [homosexual] partnership dissolution because the divorce procedures of the marriage act [in both countries] apply to registered [homosexual] marriages as well."

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May 11 2007 By virtueonline Christianity Without Salvation - by Joseph Loconte

The summons found many converts. Reflecting on the mood a few decades later, preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick gushed with nostalgia: It "struck home so poignantly," he said, that it "ushered in a new era in Christian thought and action." The era of Rauschenbusch is far from over: His "Social Gospel" message continues to inspire activists and theologians of all stripes.

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