Canonwired have posted up the videos of Doug Wilson‘s lectures and Q&A earlier this year (April) in Bloomington, Indiana. There’s a lot of material here but it’s all well worth it. 2 lectures, around 45 and 35 minutes respectively and then a massive 2 hours of Q&A. I can’t embed them here so go watch them. […]
Can you guess what the vote might be over? Of course you can! The New Zealand Herald has the story: Proposals being considered by the Anglican Church could see gay marriage services carried out in churches by gay priests. Bishops and priests are to vote on proposals covering the blessing of same-sex civil unions, the […]
One of the discussions going on within the Christian blogosphere in Australia (at least, the bits that I’m reading) is the extent to which we ought to be opposing “gay marriage” legislation, even if we’re oppose the concept in principle. For a good example of the “live and let live” approach, here’s John Dickson at […]
The following video ran at the end of the Australian Christian Lobby’s recent webcast, “Defining Marriage“. I missed the broadcast, being on a plane, but hope to get some viewing in over the next few days. Here’s the “Marriage Act” video. The Marriage Act from whatismarriage on Vimeo. Clever. I think I’d want to focus […]
Finally we’ve got a study on this topic that begins to provide meaningful results. Science Direct have the text of “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study” (pdf here). Here’s the abstract: The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that […]
From the New Oxford Review back in December 1994. Writing the history of a religious institution involves understanding concepts and language within their historical and cultural context. Otherwise, the risk is taken that history will be rewritten to suit current preoccupations. Boswell’s attempt to prove that the Byzantines regarded adelphopoiesis as a form of marriage fails because […]
From 22:30 I talk with Kevin about Gay Marriage inside the church and out, in Australia and the UK.
Believe it or not, that’s the line being run by a former evangelical, Keith Mascord, in today’s smh. After a brief summary of the potential issues with believing in a global flood (Genesis 6-9) he concludes, the only reason a plain (and church-history-long) reading of the Noah story has been overturned in favour of seeing […]
Chris Johnson is worth repeating in full… The Church Times is not down with the Church of England’s official opposition to homosexual “marriage,” which it calls “tendentious and poorly-argued.” At this point, I don’t particularly care one way or the other what the C of E or the Church Times thinks about anything at all but among the Times ”arguments,” this one […]
Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, has made a public intervention in the national debate over “Gay Marriage”. Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, he sets out his opposition: We are in the midst of a sustained and brilliantly orchestrated campaign to radically alter the marriage laws of this country to allow same-sex marriage. Three […]
