http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/?18 Fulcrum Newswatch RSS feed from http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/ - updated daily with links of interest for open evangelicals in the Church of England en-gb Copyright 2010 Fulcrum Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:11 GMT Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:11 GMT Fulcrum/CFML http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/images/logo75.gif http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/?18 75 100 Fulcrum Logo fulcrum@storcmentre.net (Fulcrum Newswatch Editor) fulcrum@storcmentre.net (Fulcrum Webmaster) 60 http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7936 Australia - described in the 19th century by a Scottish church minister as "the most Godless place under heaven" - will get its first saint when Sister Mary MacKillop later in the year. But an Anglican bishop from Sydney has raised questions. ENI, 9 March 2010 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7936 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7935 Following the murder of more than 500 people in the latest shocking violence in the Jos area, we reproduce here in its entirety an open letter from the Rt Rev Benjamin Kwashi, Archbishop of Jos. He describes local peace moves and rails against lack of government action. CMS website, 9 March 2010 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7935 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7934 A leading Roman Catholic theologian has linked clerical sex abuse with priestly celibacy, blaming the Churchs uptight views on sex for child abuse scandals in Germany, Ireland and the US. Ruth Gledhill. Times 9 March 2010 

 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7934 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7933 Documentary on rebels siphoning cash sparks fury, with legal action threatened and sackings demanded. Sam Jones and James Robinson Guardian 9 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7933 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7932 In his address at Guildford Cathedral titled The Finality of Christ in a Pluralist World, the Archbishop spoke of defending the uniqueness and finality of Christ, and encountering the truth about God and humanity from a moral, political and philosophical perspective. Archbishop's website 3 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7932 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7931 Dr Rowan Williams said it was right to be suspicious of proselytism that involves "bullying, insensitive approaches" to other faiths. Ruth Gledhill Times. 9 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7931 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7930 A debate between Polly Toynbee, David Willetts and Camila Batmanghelidjh produced more light than heat. Andrew Brown. Guardian Comment is Free - 9 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7930 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7929 A Christian registrar who lost her job after she refused to carry out civil partnership ceremonies has been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. By Martin Beckford, Telegraph, 9 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7929 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7928 Calling the killings in Jos sectarian is wrong. Resources, not religion, are the cause  made worse by bad government.Peter Cunliffe-Jones Guardian Comment is free. 8 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7928 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7927 The US wants to deny that Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut, reports Robert Fisk. Independent. 9 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7927 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7926 Deportation after many appeals is at least as cruel as summary refusal. Mary Dejevsky Independent 9 March 2010. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7926 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7925 The Christian faith must be born again, says one prominent pastor.And to be born again, Christians must be unlocked from "a prison" of long-held assumptions and have the freedom to ask honest questions, Brian McLaren indicates in his newest book, A New Kind of Christianity. Christian Post 8 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7925 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7924 Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by rampaging Muslim gangs near the city of Jos.Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Jonathan Clayton and Ruth Glehill. March 8, 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7924 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7923 Stephen Sackur talks to Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester. Until recently he was one of the highest-profile serving bishops in the Church of England but abruptly relinquished his post in 2009. He remains a hugely influential conservative voice in the established church: within Britain he argues for the reaffirmation of society's Christian roots; beyond Britain he is committed to helping Christian minority communities in Muslim nations. BBC iPlayer 8 March 2010 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7923 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7922 In October 2010, four hundred U.S. participants will be in Cape Town with some four thousand other participants from two hundred countries. Lausanne World Pulse, Masrch 2010 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7922 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7921 Germanys Protestant and Catholic churches may be facing the biggest credibility crisis in decades after an unprecedented bout of scandal-fueled negative media coverage. By Anli Serfontein, ENI/RNS 3 March 2010 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7921 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7920 Many a child has found a Narnian lantern in her backyard or stumbled upon the Dead Marshes in an abandoned industrial waste stream. But nothing beats the Slough of Despond, the Wicket-gate, the Interpreter's House and the Delectable Mountains for those times when Evangelist catches me forgetting my directions. By Stephanie Paulsell, Christian Century, 8 Martch 2010 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7920 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7919 JOS, Nigeria, March 7 (Reuters) - Nigeria's acting president on Sunday ordered the security forces to hunt down those behind clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers in which more than 300 people may have been killed. By Shuaibu Mohammed, Reuters, Alert.net, 7 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7919 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7918 Simon Harvey, 47, is named to succeed Graham Kings. St Mary Islington website, 7 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7918 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7917 Forget Billy Graham and Jimmy Swaggart - the most popular and influential pastor in the US is Joel Osteen. On the surface he is modest and quietly spoken, but his belief in the 'prosperity gospel' is changing the way people pray. Daniel Kalder, The Observer, Sunday 7 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7917 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7916 Bishop Jean Zach Duracin has written to the wider church saying that the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck the country Jan. 12 "was our baptism." Report of his letter. Episcopal Life 5 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7916 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7915 My sons function is to be loved, and to love in return. Perhaps that is everyones real function. Simon Barnes. Times 6 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7915 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7914 by Martin Beckford, The Daily Telegraph, 5 March 2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7914 Fulcrum Newswatch http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7913 Gleanings from an occasional contributor to Fulcrum Forum from Down Under. Eternity, March 2010 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?doc=news&ID=7913 Fulcrum Newswatch