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Will church-themed bars bring boozers closer to God?

Sunday, September 7, 2008

BIRMINGHAM Cathedral wants to launch a chain of cathedral-style wine bars in a bid to attract more worshippers.
The idea is part of a push to re-vitalise the image of the famous cathedral and to market it in the 21st century.
But traditionalist groups say it reeks of ‘desperation’ and will be ineffective in spreading the true [...]

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Muslims can’t get their heads around the Holy Trinity – but then, who the hell can?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

LAST year, 138 Muslim scholars published an open letter to religious leaders called A Common Word between Us and You that appealed for peace and reconciliation between Muslims and Christians.
Rowan “Dumbledore” Williams, who has yet to find a formula for peace and reconciliation between his very own warring Anglicans – currently hissing and spitting like [...]

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From cock-up to farce

Thursday, July 24, 2008

THE ten-yearly gathering of posturing Anglican twits – better known as the Lambeth Conference 2008 – is descending in farce faster than you can say Archbishop Peter Akinola.
Latest comical reports from the event, which is being boycotted by around 250 African bishops , is that the number of those who ARE attending is being kept [...]

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Same-sex unions give Muslims cause to kill Christians says idiotic Anglican

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

PILLOCK of the Week prize today goes to Dr Daniel Deng Bul, the Archbishop of Juba and Primate of the Sudan, who yesterday said that Sudanese Christians were being murdered by Muslims because the Anglican Church was seen to approve same-sex unions.
In a statement released on the second day of the Lambeth Conference, the Sudanese [...]

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Gay Pride nightmare for Anglican traditionalists

Thursday, June 26, 2008

ANGLICAN traditionalists’ worst nightmare took place today when they were confronted by thousands of people taking part in Jerusalem’s annual gay Pride Parade
Around a thousand Anglicans, including some 300 bishops - a third of the Anglican bishops in the world - arrived in Jerusalem this week to attend the Global Anglican Future Conference.
Organised by the [...]

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Children need religion – yeah, like motorbikes need ashtrays!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

EVER wonder why the House of Lords in London have bishops sitting on its benches?
To talk drivel of course – as the Anglican Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Rev Christopher Herbert, did yesterday when he urged the Government to take care of the “moral and spiritual development” of children.
Wittering on during a debate on [...]

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Converting Muslims to Christianity: It’s a ‘No-Go’ area for the C of E

Friday, June 6, 2008

TAKING Jesus to the Sons of the Prophet is like throwing a lighted match into a fireworks factory, as two evangelists discovered in Birmingham recently.
Then Rod Liddle, in an excellent piece in this week’s The Spectator, weighed in with these words:
Well, fair enough, I suppose; if you wander into a Muslim area and start spraying [...]

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More proof that prayer doesn’t work

Friday, April 11, 2008

CLOSE to a year ago, the Rev Frank Logue, pastor at the King of Peace Episcopal Church, South Georgia, offered up this prayer on his website, Irenic Thoughts:
I pray that Ambrose and the parishioners at St Mary and St Michael Church will be able to work past the current issues to get to the part [...]

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