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In many threads both on CF and elsewhere on the topics of same-sex marriage, the morality of divorce or of contraception, etc., it becomes evident to thread participants that different people bring to the table divergent understandings of the purpose(s) of marriage, and those threads often...

Elephants, priestesses, predatory primates, and building titles to one side (where they belong! ;)), one of the issues that has been mentioned often in the Traditionalist/Liberal disputes is alleged heresies or errors verging on heresy in the contemporary language liturgies. To be blunt, I...

Given discussions about the 39 Articles (I'm hoping that series of threads continues in 2011), I thought it might be interesting to bring up for discussion what the Church has defined as the bare minima for discussions of union. The first version here was adopted by the House of Bishops of...

The boy cheerleader whose arm was allegedly broken by bullies on the football team said today that his schoolmates are now threatening to break his other arm for telling. "It's been bumpy," Ohio 11-year-old Tyler Wilson said of his return to school in a morning television exclusive interview...

In looking up statistics for the various "Continuing Anglican" groups, I came across this, which gives the attendance breakdown for the Traditional Anglican Communion, the group that sought reunion with Catholicism. (Link is to a blog which reported the figures given it on request by the TAC as...

I gather that in Evangelical theology, a clear distinction is made between salvation, redemption, and justification (and I suspect I should include sanctification in the list, though that's one I do grasp). Since for many of us, these seem to be terms focusing on different aspects of the...

From the Wikipedia article on Papal titles: I am just curious about this title. From the article, it appears the Pope still "is" Patriarch of the West in the same way as he is Bishop of Rome and Pontifex Maximus, but found it expedient to drop that title from the official list of titles...

All the "gay marriage" threads here and in E&M lead me to notice that people are bringing different assumptions to the table about what constitutes a marriage. So I'm starting this thread to explore those assumptions. I want it to address four questions: 1. Biblically, what was considered...

I am seeing clearly, particularly in Ebia's posts, some things which deserve discussion. Since at least 1712 we have been a communion of autocephalous national churches, very much similar to the Orthodox in this regard. Each church is self-governing, united through the use of local versions of...

1. The most important message of Christianity is: A. God condemns men having sex with men. B. The world was created in six 24-hour days, complete with all modern 'kinds' of animals. C. God hates sin, and condemns unrepentant sinners. D. God so loved the world, that He sent His...

We have had a plethora of threads about being gay and about sinfulness. Time for something different. Here is a song which quite literally changed my life (one of a number of things that worked together to do it). For me, it's all about grace, and about the Gospel message of the Father's...

I wrote this in response to a series of posts back in September 2008. It got little response then, and I'd like to make it an OP here for discussion. In the churches of Galatia, some "Judaizing" Christians had shown up after Paul visited them, preaching that it was necessary to be...

Conservative leader David Cameron has become the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown. Mr Cameron, 43, entered 10 Downing Street after travelling to Buckingham Palace to formally accept the Queen's request to form the next government. He said he aimed to form a...

Yeah, this is another thread on homosexuality. We don't have enough of them, you see! ;) But what I want to do in this one is to try asking for a somewhat different approach to the questions we argue about. I am going to set four hypothetical situation and ask for the proper Christian...

Okay, in this thread I'm acting as somethng of an agent provocateur -- not trolling, because I'm talking about what I do believe. But raising a couple of questions others may have been afraid to raise. In the theology courses I took in the early Eighties, I remember going through the...

Over here Albion said: I mean this not to be a debate thread but an informational one. I know some national churches have been hemorrhaging members in recent years. But the proportion in that statement surprised me. Do we have numbers for continuing and other non-AC groups available...

In the now-closed "Gay Marriages" thread, JohnDB said, I'd like to ask him, or another knowledgeable member, to give more information on this -- the decision he references, statistical or anecdotal data. I am under the impression, based on a several-years-old U.S. government study, that...

Question in thread title. It seems that nearly every question of sexual ethics, and in particular any discussion of homosexuality, gets hijacked into a question of pedophilia (Brit. paedo-). While I think child molestation is underreported and a real problem, I'm wondering why it seems to be...

Greetings and blessings to my brothers and sisters in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch, on this, the feast day according to the Anglican Calendar, of his most holy predecesssor St. John Chrysostom -- patriarch, liturgist, theologian, teacher, preacher, and pastor. :thumbsup:

I recently noticed a post from member stone in OBOB in which he'd tried to code in references for each word in a Bible cote, and it was displaying linkURLwordlinkURLwordlinkURLwordlinkURLword (only with much longer URLs of course), making it impossible to read. I sent him a PM suggesting two...