1,400 year old grave contains remains wearing a cross

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From here:

Laid to rest in her best clothes and lying on an ornamental bed, she was probably of noble blood.

Quite how the 16-year-old Anglo Saxon girl died and who she was remain a mystery.

But she was buried wearing a gold cross – suggesting she was one of Britain’s earliest Christians.

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It was probably sewn into her clothing around the neck and may have been worn in her daily life.

It’s taken 1,400 years for the British government to decide that the cross is not something that it will tolerate being worn “in daily life” and for an Archbishop of Canterbury to declare that a cross is something “religious people make and hang on to as a substitute for true faith”

Such is the march of progress.

All you need is love

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And some people love abortion. Abortion is evil, so love isn’t all you need: you should love what is right and good.

I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion.

Christians can feed people but not pray for them

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In Indiana, a food pantry run by Christians has been denied federal funding because the Christians offered to pray for their customers – they offered prayer, they didn’t thrust it upon anyone.

The solution is obvious: wait for atheists to set up a food pantry that will be completely devoid of prayer. Any atheist volunteers? Anyone? No? I thought not.

From here:

An Indiana congressman is looking into possible “misinterpretation” of federal guidelines after a local food pantry was cut off from federal aid for asking clients to pray, FoxNews.com has learned.

Todd Young, a Republican congressman serving Indiana’s 9th District, has contacted state officials regarding Community Provisions of Jackson County, a food pantry in Seymour whose director, Paul Brock, insists he will not stop asking clients if they want to pray with him or one of its 45 volunteers when they receive food.

“It certainly appears there is a misinterpretation of some rules,” Young’s spokesman, Trevor Foughty, told FoxNews.com. “We want to make sure that no one is being denied the public assistance that they need.”

Brock told FoxNews.com that he never requires anyone to pray in order to receive nourishment they need.

“We ask them if they want to pray with us; if they say no, then we just let them go on through,” Brock said. “We’re not a church. My job is to feed them and if I can pat them on the back and pray for them and lift them up somehow, that’s what I’m going to do.”

 

Occupy Cuba

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Thirteen Cuban dissidents have occupied a catholic church in Havana to protest the Cuban government’s inhumane treatment of political prisoners (read Armando Valladares’ unforgettable, if harrowing, account in Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro’s Gulag), and repression of its population.

Naturally, since the protest is not against capitalism, we will not hear a peep from any of the bishops or clerics who lent their support to the other occupy movements. Why is this? Because the mainline ecclesiastical hierarchy is more interested in ideology, money and the distribution of money than it is in people.

From here:

Thirteen Cuban dissidents have occupied a Catholic church in Havana, demanding an audience with Pope Benedict when he visits Cuba later this month.

The dissidents want the Pope to press Cuba’s communist government on issues such as the release of political prisoners and an end to repression.

The Catholic Church in Cuba condemned the protest, saying places of worship should not be used for political demonstrations.

The Pope is due in Cuba on 26 March.

Dissident William Cepera said the eight women and five men had entered the Church of Charity of Cobre in central Havana on Tuesday night.

 

 

The other ANiC

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All Nations International Church is in Texas and his Grace Bishop George Ofori-Nyadu is the President, founder and presiding bishop. Apparently, Bishop George is a motivational speaker. I’m sure the Anglican Network in Canada could learn a few things from “Lady Juliet and Bishop George”: I certainly felt motivated after watching this:

A very worrying piece of spam

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I get a lot of spam email, so it is just as well I have an excellent spam filter. Nevertheless, the occasional spam email does slip through. Like this one:

Dear Customer David C Jenkins: Sexy dresses Under USD 12.99 and free delivery

What I find troubling about this is that the sender seems to know I am a Canadian Anglican and is catering to my demographics’ taste in men’s clothing accordingly.

Canada not safe for Dick Cheney

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In 2008, security considerations didn’t prevent Cheney from visiting Iraq or Afghanistan. In 2012, he cancelled a visit to Canada because of “security concerns”. Oh Canada!

Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled a Canadian speaking appearance due to security concerns sparked by demonstrations during a visit he made to Vancouver last fall, the event promoter said Monday.

Cheney, whom the protesters denounced as a war criminal, was slated to talk about his experiences in office and the current American political situation at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on April 24.

However, Ryan Ruppert, of Spectre Live Corp., said Cheney and his daughter Elizabeth had begged off via their agent.

“After speaking with their security advisers, they changed their mind on coming to the event,” Ruppert said.

“(They) decided it was better for their personal safety they stay out of Canada.”

General Secretary of the World Council of Churches to visit Canada

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From here:

On March 13, the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), will visit General Synod offices to learn about the full communion relationship between the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC).

I could have saved, the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit the airfare.

Olav, the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have both succumbed to a rampant liberalism which has, by and large, displaced any pretensions they might have once had of being Christian. Consequently, they are losing members, money and credibility: they can’t even afford to have independent synods and are considering sharing office space.

So it’s understandable that they would want coordinate their efforts to flush themselves down the toilet of theological liberalism. It’s not only an act of pious ecumenism, but it’s green – less water.

Wearing a cross in the UK

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The British government is diligently fighting against the right of employees to wear a cross on the job. This all started with Nadia Eweida who was suspended by British Airways for wear a cross at work.

This is so absurd that even secular onlookers are aghast:

If I were Nadia Eweida, I would be starting to think that the whole world had gone completely mad. You remember Nadia, the mild-looking BA worker who found herself suspended because she wore a tiny little cross round her neck for work. Everyone took her side, back in 2006. The entire British press was convulsed with indignation. There were debates in the House of Commons.

Rowan Williams, however, exercised his uncanny knack for coming down on the wrong side of an issue by saying that wearing a cross:

had become something “which religious people make and hang on to” as a substitute for true faith.
He made his comments on the day it emerged that the Government is to argue in the European Court that Christians do not have the “right” to wear a cross as a visible manifestation of faith.

And people wonder why the Church of England is becoming irrelevant.

Rev. James Ferry and Archbishop Terence Finlay kiss and make up

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20 years ago Terence Finlay fired James Ferry because he had a homosexual lover. Now, they have reconciled – more because of a change of heart on the part of the archbishop than the priest, it seems.

All this goes to show how much has changed in the Anglican Church of Canada: today homosexual  priests are not only welcome, but they often seem to be preferred candidates for vacant positions. I am sure the ACoC views this as a necessary corrective: in actual fact it is more an act of obeisance to the Zeitgeist.

From here:

The two Toronto clergymen are by now so inextricably linked that they’re bound to appear prominently in each other’s obituaries. They know that.

But Terence Finlay and James Ferry do not want a confrontation 20 years ago — one that scandalized the traditional and appalled the progressive in the Anglican Church — to define them.

As of next Sunday, when they participate in a rare public service of personal reconciliation at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Finlay and Ferry hope the relationship will be known for more redeeming reasons.