The son went on to describe growing up in his household meant bearing witness to his father normalizing yelling and showing physical violence in the family environment. "The psychological trauma I suffered repressed itself and only began to come out when I was in the ninth grade. I suffered from frequent panic attacks and depression without any knowledge of what was causing it. When my father first found out I had depression be blamed me for it.
Read moreThe Episcopal Church openly celebrates LGBTQ+ events with TEC encouraging parents and their children to celebrate and participate. The rainbow of fashions ranging from bondage to the banal, from near nudity to fashionable haute couture leaves little to the imagination. Children wave "gay" flags from the pavements. The children are cheered along by parents who smile approvingly, unaware of the lifetime damage such indoctrination does to young, sensitive hearts and minds.
Read moreHe said the Archbishop of Canterbury lacks the moral justification to challenge GAFCON for rejecting homosexuality. Welby betrayed the commitment to Lambeth Resolution I.10, when he led his church to undermine the teaching of the church as expressly stated in the same resolution.
Read more"Homosexuality was already criminalized; it simply reaffirms what was already in the colonial-era penal code, including a maximum sentence of the death penalty for aggravated homosexuality (which the Church of Uganda opposed).
"What is new is specifically outlawing the promotion of homosexuality and same-sex relationships as a moral alternative to God's natural design for marriage between one man and one woman."
Read moreAnd what about his own experience. I can talk about that. When Brewer was rector at the flagship evangelical parish, Good Samaritan in Paoli, PA, Bishop Charles Bennison came a-calling and demanded the pulpit, which he got. Brewer could not keep him out. The ONLY reason Brewer did not get his head handed to him by Bennison was that Bennison screwed up so badly, that he got inhibited and deposed himself.
Read more"What is rising in its place is a new wineskin of Covenanted relationships developed by the Global South and those wineskins will be filled with the new wine of GAFCON'S passion for Jesus, his Gospel, and mission. The global future of Anglicanism is the passionate proclamation of Christ to the nations through a global fellowship of churches related to one another in mutual love and accountability through the Cairo Covenant of the Global South.
Read moreThe Anglican Church of Uganda welcomed the nation's brusquely named Anti-Homosexuality Act, and again blamed Western values and influences on Uganda. "The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 is good and we are grateful to the President for assenting to it," he said.
Read more"We have men created in the image of God and we have women created in the image of God. Nothing else! There is no X -- unspecified or Y -- undisclosed, only male and female created in the image of God. Human beings, male and female, are God's masterpiece. Everything else that staggers our imagination and wows our heart and mind, everything else in creation that fills our eyes with astonishment, everything else is secondary to God's creation of male and female in his own image.
Read moreVOL: The Kigali Statement went right up to the edge calling for a reset of the communion. But can you have a reset without formal schism with Canterbury?
Read moreBut it reveals the deep desperation to have evangelism as your first call, especially as it is doubtful that TEC has an evangelical bishop ready to leap into the line-up of hopeful wannabees, or, if nominated would have a prayer of winning. It also reveals a denomination in free fall that evangelism, not anti-racism training, climate change or whole range of woke issues as its top priority.
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