A Slack Defense of the Shellfish Argument
When confronted by an angry Episcopal bishop saying something like: “If you oppose same sex marriage because the bible says it’s a sin, you’d better not eat shrimp” all you have to say is: “Acts 10.” Granted it might take the bishop some time to figure out that you’re referencing a passage from the New Testament and not a scene from the latest broadway musical…
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Presiding Bishop Schori: A Study in Misunderstanding the Exercise of Dominion
Unfortunately, the presiding bishop’s history is as weak as her theology. One is left to wonder if she learned it at The Good Samaritan School of Theology, the mythical school that existed only in her world of wishful thinking – well and in her resume.
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I Don’t Know, Therefore I Sue
The Presiding Bishop’s actions are so full of personal and ideological certainties that her claim to “not know the details of the emerging church” is fake humility, unctuous and sickening to read:
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Running Defense: Navigating the Perils of a Dying Organization
When a parish, diocese, leader, or layperson loses a significant battle - whether it is a lawsuit, a church trial, a committee decision, an election, or some other public issue - it is important that that parish, diocese, leader, or layperson “lose well.”
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The Other ‘Lost Boys’: Muslim Men and Bacha Bazi
Political correctness keeps most western media outlets from bringing attention to sexual crimes against little boys committed by Muslim men across the Middle East. Here is the disturbing reality.
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Navigating the Three Streams by Gillis Harp
May 24, 2012 · 2 Gillis Harp has written a masterful essay explaining the difficulties and contradictions inherent in the “Three Streams, One River” approach to Anglicanism that seems to have become embedded in the ACNA as an almost creedal…
Archaeologists Discover Evidence That Bethlehem Existed Centuries Before Jesus
May 24, 2012 · It is always good to have confirmation of what we already know in our hearts to be true. The coin-sized remnant of the seal proves that Bethlehem - first mentioned in…
That Good Ol’ Anti-Carbon Religion
May 24, 2012 · 1 True believers from the Religion of Green stormed the gates of Congress today, spreading the deep ecology gospel. The National Council of Churches Nobody Goes to Any More put out the obligatory
Ready for Your Child to get the Pros and Cons of a One Night Stand?
May 24, 2012 · 5 Raising kids these days is a job fraught with danger. Anyone who thinks there is no harm in Planned Parenthood teaching your kids about sexuality at an early age, like 5, needs to get out…
The Greatest Play in Baseball
May 24, 2012 · 1
[A Little Flashback From 2010] I Was Wrong About Marriage
May 24, 2012 · 4 An interesting article by David French—make certain you check out the last paragraph in the original post [which I didn’t excerpt below]: Earlier this week, the Washington…
The Long-Term Future of the Gay Marriage Debate: Stalemate
May 24, 2012 · 3 There have been several interesting analysis articles out recently on the whole let’s-force-faux-societal-approval-of-gay-sex thingy [commonly called “gay marriage”] and I’m posting several this week. One thing I disagree with in
[Bumped For Obvious Reasons] Kendall Harmon—Crisis, Part 2: The Iceberg (Introduction)
May 24, 2012 · 4
Greenville South Carolina’s First Presbyterian Church Leaves PCUSA, Joins ECO
May 24, 2012 · 1 Back in 2003, when the actions of The Episcopal Church’s General Convention rippled back to the shores of Greenville, South Carolina’s Episcopal congregations, many Episcopalians left for the downtown, historic PCUSA church rather than stay…
A Slack Defense of the Shellfish Argument
May 23, 2012 · 26 Yesterday I posted this article by Dr. Al Mohler in which he briefly but effectively deals with the “shellfish argument”. The shellfish argument, for those who don’t know, is what lies behind…
Sterilize Poor People! Fight Global Warming!
May 23, 2012 · 5 The U.K.‘s Guardian newspaper had a horrific report last month that needs much wider circulation. It seems that under the guise of “fighting climate change,” thousands of women in India have been sterilized…
Two PCUSA Presbyteries Shed 30% of Membership
May 23, 2012 · 11 Two PCUSA presbyteries took big hits in the past week, according to the Layman Online. First, there was Tropical Florida: One of the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s largest Florida presbyteries will be losing…
How I Wish TV Debates on Homosexuality Would Go
May 23, 2012 · 3 Trevin Wax, apparently frustrated with the performance of various pastors’ when asked about homosexuality on network television, offers his fantasy interview: Host: You are a Christian pastor, and you say…
Bonnie Anderson Won’t Run for Re-Election
May 23, 2012 · 14 Bonnie Anderson has decided not to run for re-election: May 23, 2012 Dear Deputies and First Alternates, I write to you for two reasons: to thank you for your support, friendship, prayers, challenges,…
Episcopal Diocese of Rockland Appoints Diocesan Poet
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Barry Lynn: Catholic Lawsuits “Bogus”
May 22, 2012 · 5 Regular readers of Stand Firm have heard about the lawsuits that Notre Dame and dozens of other Catholic institutions have filed against the federal government. (Of course, if you’d depended on ABC…
The Falls Church Anglican May Go Forward With Appeal
May 22, 2012 · 19 When heretics are disappointed, it makes me smile. With disappointment, I report to you that we have been unable to reach a final settlement with the CANA congregation now known as…
If a Somali Shouts in Sioux Falls, does an L.A. liberal hear anything?
May 22, 2012 · 5 There were ululations in the Sioux Falls Arena last Sunday night. Cheers, whistles, hand claps and all kinds of other happy noise as well. My wife and I were at our younger…
Al Mohler: The Bible condemns a lot, but here’s why we focus on homosexuality
May 22, 2012 · Good answer to a common question by Dr. Al Mohler: Why are Christians so concerned with homosexuality? In the first place, that question is answered by the simple fact that it…
Deep Denial in Diocese of Lexington?
May 22, 2012 · 3 Interesting post over at T-19. Since Lexington has an upcoming Diocesan election, I decided to look at some history and and lo and behold the statistics for that diocese were discussed in a post and…
Change the World with the World Communion of Reformed Churches
May 22, 2012 · The world waited with bated breath last week, desperate to see what would come out of the meeting in Indonesia of the Executive Committee of the World Communion of…
The Ugly Christian
May 22, 2012 · 14 We spend a lot of time here pointing out the anti-nomian absurdity of politically fueled leftist activism in the church. But there is an equally dangerous error that sometimes lodges itself like a tick in…
Must I Always Publicly Pray in Jesus’ Name?
May 22, 2012 · 4 This is a superb answer from Russell Moore. We do not worship the same God that Muslims and Jews worship.…
The Episcopal Left is Upset with the Roman Catholics
May 22, 2012 · 12 I am beginning to wonder if lack of logic is a pre-requisite for leadership in the Episcopal church. It seems some Episcopalians are all atwitter because the Roman Catholic Church is acting to remove priests…
Claiming Our Collective Poet Voices
May 22, 2012 · 15 Let’s see…declining attendance, aging membership, cultural irrelevance…what can we do to turn things around? Barbara Campbell of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in New Britain has been…
University of Notre Dame Files Lawsuit Over Obamacare Mandate
May 21, 2012 · 8 Alumni received this email: May 21, 2012 A Message from Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame Today the University of Notre Dame filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern…
The Strange Dance of the Canons
May 21, 2012 · 4 With General Convention 2012 fast approaching, now starts what I call the Strange Dance of the Canons. Proposals to change and amend the Canons (and Constitution, as well) of ECUSA begin to surface from every…
Presiding Bishop Schori: A Study in Misunderstanding the Exercise of Dominion
May 21, 2012 · 27 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the…
Bishop John McIntyre of Gippsland Reneges on the Bishops’ Protocol on Human Sexuality
May 20, 2012 · 23 Well gosh, who could possibly have seen this one coming? The Diocese of Gippsland has had it’s annual Synod and Bishop John McIntyre seems to have decided that when he…
‘Exorcist’ Author Blatty to Sue Georgetown University over Catholic Authenticity
May 20, 2012 · 4 William Peter Blatty, who graduated from Georgetown in 1950, says the “last straw” was the university’s speaking invitation to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Sebelius, who addressed graduating public…
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Rob Eaton+ - Two PCUSA Presbyteries Shed 30% of Membership
Right now, I don’t see the next “wave” out; I see the next “wave” in. More trickle out, yes, (although more than a trickle) especially during the next triennium. Then the defining differentiation up to,…
Ralph Webb - Navigating the Three Streams by Gillis Harp
Dr. Harp’s piece is a well-written one coming from an Anglican evangelical who places a strong emphasis on the Reformation. It seems to me that there is a divide among Anglicans who appeal mostly to…
Matt Kennedy - A Slack Defense of the Shellfish Argument
Hi Michael D, “you can’t put “God gave them plenty of chances and warnings” and “the inevitable consequence ” in the same sentence. “ Really? What an odd thing to say considering parents do this…
Michael D - A Slack Defense of the Shellfish Argument
Ah, MichaelA, you can’t put “God gave them plenty of chances and warnings” and “the inevitable consequence ” in the same sentence. They explode each other.
Barbara Gauthier - Navigating the Three Streams by Gillis Harp
For what it’s worth, at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois, we have all three streams running together equally and peaceably as a single river. Perhaps some of the differences Gillis Harp mentions depends…
MichaelA - A Slack Defense of the Shellfish Argument
“I disagree entirely: God declared the Jews to be his people. Period. There was no membership test.” MichaelD, in turn, I disagree entirely with you. It does not appear that you have read the Old…
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