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December 03 2023 By dvirtue The 'Islamophobia' industry shills for Hamas

Yet despite their self-serving delusions of persecution, both Aziz and Beydoun are high-profile scholars who command the respect of their peers, which is in itself a damning indictment of the state of current Middle East studies.

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December 03 2023 By dvirtue A PERSONAL 'BARMEN DECLARATION' IN THE LIGHT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND'S CURRENT DIRECTION

The following day, Thursday, I prepared and delivered a seminar on the momentous Barmen Declaration. This defiant statement of faith takes its name from the German town in which it was formally accepted in May 1934. It states the convictions of those German Protestants who resisted the Nazi regime's agenda for the Churches. It's an utterly inspiring document, drafted principally by Karl Barth and supported strongly by Dieterich Bonhoeffer, then serving as a pastor in London.

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November 29 2023 By dvirtue REFLECTIONS ON THE ISRAEL/GAZA CONFLICT

"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for an eye, and tooth for tooth. BUT I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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November 22 2023 By dvirtue Should I go or should I stay in the Church of England?

Trajectory of the Church of England

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November 21 2023 By dvirtue Who Is to Blame When Episcopalians, Methodists Leave the Church?

Who Is to Blame When the British Leave the Church of England?

Or of Lutherans: Who Is to Blame When Lutherans Leave the Church?

Or of Methodists: Who Is to Blame When Methodists Leave the Church?

Or of any Christian: Who Is to Blame When Christians Leave the Church?

SPIRITUALLY HUNGRY

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November 20 2023 By dvirtue Anglican Network in Europe Release statement on CofE Same Sex Blessings

Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' (Jeremiah 6:16 ESV)

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November 19 2023 By dvirtue Gerald McDermott on Why the Land Promises Belong to Ethnic Israel

For most Christians and Jews since the fourth century, the answer has been no and no. No major interpreters found such a promise there, and it wouldn't matter anyway. For what determined doctrine toward the people and land of Israel was tradition's interpretation of biblical texts, not the texts themselves.

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November 18 2023 By dvirtue English Anglicans--hit the lifeboats

The distinction between same-sex blessings and redefining matrimony is facile, and it masks the taste of the lethal spiritual poison. The sort of conservative and semi-biblically-conscious can supposedly find momentary comfort in the category of matrimony remaining sacrosanct -- for a little while. As someone else quite rightly quipped, "You bless it, you bought it."

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November 17 2023 By dvirtue OXFORD, UK: A Statement from Vaughan Roberts Vicar of St. Ebbe's regarding the decisions of the General Synod

I also stressed that, despite the difference over the Bible's teaching about sex and marriage, "there is no disagreement about the great dignity of all people, made in God's image and deeply loved by him. We all affirm the importance of welcoming everyone to our churches, whatever their sexuality or relational circumstances." Please do read the rest of that statement (see below), which says most of what I want to say again now.

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November 17 2023 By dvirtue The Kingdom of Mammon v. The Kingdom of God

The proposed rule prohibits an Illinois lawyer from "engag[ing] in conduct in the practice of law that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know is harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, color, ancestry, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, military or veteran status, marital status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or socioeconomic status." Cutting through the legal jargon, the c

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