Two lesbian Episcopal priests kicked off the New Year by marrying in Massachusetts. The Very Rev Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, dean and president of Episcopal Divinity School, and Mally Lloyd, canon to the Ordinary, married on Saturday at St Paul's Cathedral in Boston in front of nearly 400 guests. The Rt Rev M Thomas Shaw, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, solemnised the marriage.
In the News
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January 5th, 2011
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January 5th, 2011
A Christian-based youth centre under construction, an inner-city church and a nearby bakery were targeted with anti-Christian messages on posters during the Christmas season.
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January 5th, 2011
What fascinates me about this book – endorsed by R T Kendall, one of the world’s leading evangelical theologians, and Canon Andrew White, the so-called “Vicar of Baghdad” – is how expertly it treads through a minefield regarded as far too dangerous by most mainstream church leaders.
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January 5th, 2011
Dr Catherine Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, set out what she called the "feminist myths" that obscure the truth about gender equality in modern Britain.
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January 5th, 2011
Islamophobia was invented to silence those Muslims who question the Koran and who demand equality of the sexes.
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January 5th, 2011
Liberal Conspiracy has a post playing down a story about conversions to Islam, one which almost perfectly encapsulates the liberal delusion over Islam.
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January 5th, 2011
On Dec. 28, MTV aired the abortion special, "No Easy Decision," apparently yielding to pressure from abortion ideologues upset that its two highly rated shows on unplanned pregnancies, "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom," are both life-affirming.
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January 5th, 2011
Five hundred Pakistani religious scholars have warned that anyone who expresses grief over the assassination of the Punjabi governor should suffer the same fate.
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January 5th, 2011
Of all Europe’s great and present miseries, the one receiving the most uncertain remedies is the failing integration of its increasingly large and alienated Muslim communities.
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January 5th, 2011
Revoking "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has gotten all the attention of late. But the Obama Administration is involved in another related initiative that is potentially no less significant.