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The big questions facing that out gay Catholic priest
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Scotland the confused: Did Presbyterians back gay clergy?
Something happened on Monday at the General Assembly the Church of Scotland — they appear to have become Anglicans. No — they didn’t change from a Presbyterian to Episcopal form of church government. They did something more Anglican than combining bishops with Calvinism. Â They’ve accepted the sacred “yes/but” Â Anglican doctrine of deliberate confusion, Â and have adopted a policy on gay clergy that no one quite seems to understand.
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Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most
If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is absolutely nothing that the Boy Scouts of American can do right now that will not lead to major divisions in their organization. The key force that will cause a future split is, of course, the deep divide among mainstream religious groups on the moral status of homosexual behavior.
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So, what do Southern Baptists have to do to get some ink?
A couple of years ago the Southern Baptist Convention explored the option of changing their name to better reflect the national and international nature of the denomination. I thought at the time that it might be helpful to change the name to the “The Episcopal Church” so that the national news media would finally acknowledge the massive SBCâs existence.
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From Reuters: Another by-the-book Womenpriests story
At this point, it seems that mainstream journalists have decided that the Womenpriests movement deserves a slow-rolling wave of coverage in which (a) it will clear that the women are operating outside the official borders of the Roman Catholic Church, but (b) the viewpoints of movement leaders will be quoted as gospel truth when it comes time to discuss why the nasty male church leaders believe what they believe.
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Womenpriests again: The people vs. newspaper scenario
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Is Ephesians 6 really about Thatcher's strength?
Whenever my Washington Journalism Center students start covering speeches and major public events, always I tell them that they face three major journalistic challenges. They have to:
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Washington Post tries to define 'liberal' in Maryland
There is much to applaud in today’s Washington Post story that ran under the headline, “Maryland’s leftward swing.”
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Was the New York Times Easter error no big deal?
The New York Times has been taking quite a bit of heat for its shockingly erroneous understanding of Christianity. Earlier this week, it published a brief story about Pope Francis’ Easter message and went on to say that “Easter is the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus, three days after he was crucified, the premise for the Christian belief in an everlasting life.”
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