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A VIDEO on the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) materials, produced by the campaign group Christian Concern, has been criticised by the Bishop of Coventry, Dr Christopher Cocksworth, for condemning participants in the process. Police are looking at the video as a possible hate-crime. In the video, posted on YouTube on 13 November, Ben John, development director of the Wilberforce Academy, comments on clips from a trailer video which promotes the LLF course. One clip features Alex Clare-Young, a transgender member of the United Reformed Church who served on the LLF co-ordinating group, and his wife. Mr John says:...

Andrew Selous, the Church of England's representative in the Commons, has told MPs that Nativity plays and outdoor carolling can go ahead. The Tory MP and Second Church Estates Commissioner said that "churches and cathedrals can now approach Advent and Christmas with certainty". For indoor services and events, singing will be "limited to performance only". Churches are set to re-open for public worship on 2 December when the second national lockdown ends. During lockdown, churches were forced to close except for private prayer, funerals and delivering key public services. The forced closures were strongly criticised by Church leaders, including the...

Christian: in your heart of hearts, without prayer, did you really get what you wanted?Did you get a wife without prayer, a home, a child, a job? Yes, many of us forget to pray even over these things. And what does it leave us but emptiness and sometimes heartache.For when we forget to pray, we miss out on a world of relationship. We miss seeing His glory in the midst of it. We miss seeing His unique answers (usually surprising). We miss some of why He gave us these things in the first place. And most of all, we miss...

LGBT leaders and supporters in the Church of England are threatening a mass walkout from a recently-launched discussion process about sexual issues unless bishops give an urgent guarantee to support the marriage of same-sex partners in church. The warning was issued in a joint letter sent to 34 bishops "known to be supporters of LGBTIQ+ people", among them the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of Oxford, Manchester, Leeds, Dover and Liverpool. The letter was sent by Jeremy Timm, former chair of Changing Attitude England, and co-signed by a number of LGBT clergy and supporters, including Rev Colin Coward, founder...

The Archbishop is expected to spend much of his time carrying out further study on reconciliation, the Church of England saysThe Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is set to take a sabbatical and study leave starting in May 2021. Lambeth Palace has confirmed that he will take time out for “reflection, prayer, and spiritual renewal” and will return to his official duties in September. Mr Welby is expected to spend much of his time carrying out further study on reconciliation, which is one of the priorities of his time in the role and an area he has worked in for...

The Anglican Church of Canada's Primate, Linda Nicholls has written to Canada's Minister of Justice to voice her support for Bill C-6, a bill which would criminalize conversion therapy. If this should pass, a therapist, psychotherapist, counsellor or psychiatrist who agrees to help someone resist unwanted same-sex attraction would be committing a criminal act and face fines and possible jail time. At a deeper level it is a fundamental denial of free speech. So, a person who experiences same-sex attraction has no choice but to accept his or her unwanted attractions. Let me repeat: no choice. The reason for this,...

A leading Church of England Lesbian activist has lashed out at conservatives who hold to the Bible's clear teaching on sexual ethics, accusing them of being Holocaust deniers and rapists. In an article for the gay news website Pink News, Jayne Ozanne attacked those who 'teach that LGBT lifestyles are sinful' and explain biblical teaching on singleness and celibacy. Her remarks followed the publication of the Church of England's controversial resource on relationships, Living in Love and Faith, which encourages people of differing views to "listen and learn" from each other. Ozanne, a General Synod member and LGBT activist ripped...

Pope Pius XI established Christ the King Sunday in 1925 to counter what he regarded as the destructive forces of the modern world: secularism in the west and the rise of communism in Russia and fascism in Italy and Spain, harbingers of the Nazism soon to seize Germany. Pope Pius intended to oppose the rule of Christ to the totalitarian claims of these ideologies. By intention or coincidence, the festival of Christ the King also landed on the last Sunday in October, coinciding with the Protestant celebration of the Reformation. In the reform of the Roman liturgy after the Second...

“Do to others as you would have them do to you.” – Luke 6:31 Dear Siblings in Christ, On Monday, November 16, 2020, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine spoke about the increasing coronavirus case numbers, citing that “62 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties have a percent positivity rate of 5%. The state’s overall rate is 9.6%.” Our own counties are seeing high escalations in daily positive cases, five to ten-fold increases. This data confirms that we are now in the worst of the pandemic to date. For us as the church gathering for worship and meetings, digital congregating remains...

Hurricane Iota becomes Cat 5 as it approaches Central America. It is the latest Cat 5 on record in terms of latest in season. It is going to impact almost the same area as Hurricane Eta and only a few weeks after Hurricane Eta. Please pray for the poor people of Central America.

Use of fetal stem cells in the manufacture of vaccines? As of this morning the media is now reporting two vaccine makers that will soon be ready. Please make it your business to know what has been used to make the vaccine you take should you decide to do so: Why is no one reporting that some of those makers are using aborted fetal tissues to manufacture? Do you think this may be a concern to the approximately half of the US population? Is to me. Pfizer does not appear to use fetal stem cells but others are. Please be...

The Church of England announced that it is going to begin a formal “discernment and decision-making” process "about a way forward for the church" in regards to its teachings on sex, sexuality and marriage. Church leaders are aiming to come to a conclusion on the long-debated issues by 2022. The announcement came with the launch of the "Living in Love and Faith" resources, which more than 40 people, led by the Bishop of Coventry Christopher Cocksworth, worked on for three years to help people participate in honest discussions, listen to life stories and understand each other’s views. Part of the...

Musician David Haas has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women spanning many years. Although Haas is not a member of an ELCA congregation, Evangelical Lutheran Worship includes four hymns by him: “Blest Are They” (ELW 728), “Now We Remain” (ELW 500), “We Are Called” (ELW 720), and “You Are Mine” (ELW 581). Several institutions have requested congregations to no longer sing works by Haas pending an investigation. Those who plan worship in the ELCA are strongly encouraged to discontinue use of these hymns and other compositions in worship. Both the ELCA and 1517 Media / Augsburg Fortress have...

Jeff Iorg, president of the Southern Baptist funded Gateway Seminary in California, claimed in a baffling essay that Christians should not be too concerned with “concepts or conspiracies” like socialism, Critical Race Theory or Intersectionality. Dr. Iorg writes, “Many Christians today are captivated by discussions, arguments, and speculations about concepts or conspiracies like socialism, Critical Race Theory, intersectionality, QAnon, the 1619 Project, etc. American Christians have been duped into believing these are pressing issues which deserve our undivided and intense attention.” I’m dumber for having read this essay. Who thinks those issues deserve undivided attention? This is a typical strawman...

CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2020 / 04:00 am MT (CNA).- Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, reaffirmed Sunday his view that intercommunion with Protestants should be possible, despite Vatican objections. He made the comment in a Nov. 8 message to the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). “The community in faith, which is already ecumenically visible in many ways, aims at a unity that will also be able to be experienced as a communion in the Eucharistic and the Lord’s Supper,” Bätzing wrote in the message. He said he considered it “good” that a document...

I am walking you through every jot and tittle of My Word as my fire dresses and consumes you in My Glory for you have overcome as Enoch and Elijah. So now I shall walk with you as Enoch and My fire will come down for you when you call upon my name as it did for Elijah for now you are My Holy place of rest and my healing hands saturated in the oils of Exodus shall bring healing to all you touch and speak over with the oil of Unity for As I was with Moses now I...

Put Not Your Trust in Princes 146 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. 5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, 6 who made heaven and earth, the...

Carmelite friars established Whitefriars in 1270, but the religious site was destroyed during the Protestant ReformationArchaeologists digging under the remains of a demolished parking garage in Gloucester, England, have found the ruins of a 13th-century monastery, BBC News reports. Established around 1270, the Carmelite friary—known as Whitefriars—was all but demolished during the 16th century. Historians had long been aware of the house of worship’s existence, but they didn’t know exactly where it was located. Researchers from the Gloucester City Council and Cotswold Archaeology took advantage of a redevelopment project in the city’s King’s Quarter neighborhood to investigate. “For around 300...

A bishop of The Episcopal Church announced that he'll be stepping down from office weeks after the denomination’s disciplinary panel ruled that he violated canon law by refusing to allow same-sex marriages in his diocese. Addressing the Diocesan Convention on Saturday, Bishop William Love of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany said he will resign as bishop on Feb. 1, 2021, according to Anglican Ink. On Oct. 5, the denomination’s Hearing Panel found Bishop Love guilty “by clear and convincing evidence” of violating Resolution B012, a measure passed in 2018 requiring that all Episcopal dioceses allow for the blessing of same-sex...

The Episcopal Church introduced same-sex ‘marriage’ as ‘trial rites’ in 2015.ALBANY, New York, October 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — After refusing to conduct same-sex “marriages” in his diocese, William Love, the Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York, was found guilty of violating the “Discipline of the Church” and the Canon Law of the church. At the 2018 General Convention, the Episcopal Church had made changes to the rites for same-sex “marriage” that were approved as a trial at the 2015 convention. The new resolution, entitled B012, stripped diocesan bishops of their autonomy to prohibit homosexual “marriage”, yet still characterized such ceremonies...