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March 06 2010 By virtueonline SC Diocese in Play*Dioceses Ok SS Blessings*ACA Accepts Rome's Offer*Money/Haiti

The Episcopal Church seems determined to commit ecclesiastical suicide, electing homosexual bishops, looking the other way when same-sex unions are blessed, and generally allowing just about any heresy to find a voice and a constituency - often among its bishops. --- Albert Mohler, Columnist and SBC President

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February 26 2010 By virtueonline ACNA Church Planters Take Aim at Unchurched*Exec. Council Hears Dismal TEC Stats

The call to singleness. Acceptance or tolerance of a same-sex partnership rests on the assumption that sexual intercourse is 'psychologically necessary'. That is certainly what our sex-obsessed contemporary culture says. But is it true? Christians must surely reply that it is a lie. There is such a thing as the call to singleness, in which authentic human fulfillment is possible without sexual experience.

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February 20 2010 By virtueonline Laity Blast Bishop Over Conscience Funds*SC Heats Up*Glasspool Close to Consents

The last of the 'last days'. The New Testament writers do not have an exact vocabulary to describe the chronology of the last time or the end, and it is not always easy to discern what eschatological period or event they are alluding. What is clear is that they regarded the first coming of Christ as having inaugurated the new age and settled the doom of the old. 'The age to come' had come, and 'the present age' was therefore drawing to a close.

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February 13 2010 By virtueonline ACNA Soars on Recognition from CofE Synod*Williams Fears Schism*SC in Limbo

Women's ministry. If God endows women with spiritual gifts (which he does), and thereby calls them to exercise their gifts for the common good (which he does), then the church must recognize God's gifts and calling, must make appropriate spheres of service available to women, and should 'ordain' (that is, commission and authorize) them to exercise their God-given ministry, at least in team situations.

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February 06 2010 By virtueonline Egyptian Apb Drops Bombshell*AAC Documents TEC's Lawsuits* Dennis Canon in Doubt

The consequences for a national church, used to operating among people and institutions on the assumptions of Christendom, are acute. The Church of England bases a significant part of its identity on its physical presence in every community, and on a 'come to us' strategy. But as community becomes more complex, mere geographical presence is no longer a guarantee that we can connect. The reality is that mainstream culture no longer brings people to the church door.

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January 30 2010 By virtueonline Mere Anglicans Meet*AMIA Trumpets Church Growth*Pittsburgh Appeals Court Order

"The Church should acknowledge openly the true extent of the problem it faces. The current trajectory is unsustainable both financially and institutionally.” --- English Anglican Blog

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January 20 2010 By virtueonline Haiti Support Yes, Litigation No*ABC Blasted by Orthodox Editor*PB Rebutted*More

Gender, Sexuality, Marriage and Divorce. A foundation principle. Since it is mainly on the facts of creation that Paul bases his case for the husband's headship (Eph. 5:22f.), his argument has permanent and universal validity, and is not to be dismissed as culturally limited. The cultural elements of his teaching are to be found in the applications of the principle, in the requirement of 'veiling' certainly, and I think also in the requirement of 'silence'.

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January 16 2010 By virtueonline Sewanee Exposed* Haiti Earthquake*Prop. 8 Erupts*PA Parish Loses to Diocese

Called to be peacemakers. Every Christian is called to be a peacemaker. The Beatitudes are not a set of eight options, so that some may choose to be meek, others to be merciful, and yet others to make peace. Together they are Christ's description of the members of his kingdom. True, we shall not succeed in establishing Utopia on earth, nor will Christ's kingdom of righteousness and peace become universal within history.

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January 09 2010 By virtueonline TEC Finances Disgraceful*LA to Proceed with Lesbian Consecration*More

Rowan Williams is creating a myth of unity and it is becoming all the more urgent that orthodox global Anglicans committed to confessional unity do not give credence to such a retreat from reason. --- Charles Raven, Anglican priest.

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January 01 2010 By virtueonline Covenant Creates Controversy*Crew Condemns Covenant*Realignment Continues

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December 31, 2009

It was a year of upheaval from which Anglican leaders might well breathe a sigh of relief that it is over.

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