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	<description>I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.</description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/09/quote-day-139/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.it is worth analyzing the effect of elevating tolerance to the level of supreme virtue. It generates scores of ironies that relatively few people even notice. As J. Daryl Charles puts it, the old tolerance that has recently been transmuted to this new status “becomes indistinguishable from an intractably intolerant relativism.” Worse, it soon becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/06/good-links-55/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Catholic Boy Richard &#8211; “Getting It Straight” on Same-Gender Attraction…And Rick Santorum A Grain of Sand &#8211; Fairness Liberal Conspiracy &#8211; Why was my friend jailed over botched attempt to end his own life? Dreaming Beneath the Spires &#8211; Successful Christians; Hidden Christians Get Religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/02/02/quote-day-136/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. SOURCE: G. K. Chesterton]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/25/good-links-53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Future Shape of Church &#8211; Ecumenical Matters Parchment and Pen &#8211; When God Does Not Show Up Center for Law and Religion &#8211; Can the State Order a Church to “De-Baptize” Someone? Chelliah Laity &#8211; Bishops Accused of Not Being So Christian Slate &#8211; That’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the new Blog: God and Politics in the UK</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/20/introducing-blog-god-politics-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it&#8217;s customary for more established blogs to support and introduce the newbies, this seems an opportune moment to bring to your attention the new God and Politics in the UK Blog written by Gillan Scott. His current post looks at UK foreign aid given to countries known for persecuting Christians and argues &#8211; as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, attacks aggressive secularism whilst defending Christianity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christianity is one of the greatest strengths Europe has, and if it is lost, “we will be condemned to the erosion of the European spirit,” the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek has said. [.....] In an address at the European Prayer Breakfast, Mr Buzek, the former Prime Minister of Poland, and a Protestant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Calling the Disabled &#8216;Scroungers&#8217; #spartacusreport</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/10/stop-calling-disabled-scroungers-spartacusreport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I totally support the campaign against the proposed cuts in Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and will break the habit of a lifetime and link to an important document held on the Ekklesia website: A Report on the proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance (PDF) Chelliah Laity tells us of a vigil outside Parliament tomorrow. Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Catholic Bloggers Rosary Campaign for #Santorum Hits the News in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some members of the Catholic Bloggers Guild &#8211; Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma- are getting behind US presidential candidate Rick Santorum and have proposed a Rosary campaign. Remarkably, news of this has spread as far as Spain! On the topic of Rick Santorum, I was among those disturbed by an article written by Mehdi Hasan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Christian denominations decertified under new Hungarian constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know next to nothing relating to the intricacies of the controversy surrounding Hungary&#8217;s new constitution, but have seen a few bits and bobs discussing it and so thought this information of interest and a little disturbing. Over 300 religious groups – including several Christian denominations – have lost official recognition in Hungary under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/09/good-links-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: CIFwatch &#8211; Was Moses a colonizer? The Guardian’s Nicholas Lezard uncovers why us Jews are kleptomaniacs pmphillips&#8217;s posterous &#8211; The Way of Death is paved with&#8230; Left Foot Forward &#8211; 2012 – the year the world must wake up to Christian persecution NewScientist &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/04/quote-day-115/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even more interesting was Mark Mardell’s report from Iowa in which he described Rick Santorum as an “evangelical Christian.” Rick Santorum is of course a devout Roman Catholic. This could be seen in two ways. It could, like the previous example, be in line with the cultural bias of the BBC and be an attempt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/28/good-links-48/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Accepting Abundance &#8211; On Dissent – Proud to be right? Vatican Insider &#8211; Jews alarmed by Messianic movement boom Cranmer &#8211; Alcohol price-fixing will not solve binge-drinking iBenedictines &#8211; Holy Innocents Ugley Vicar &#8211; Our Christmas Carol Sermon Outside the Assylum &#8211; Who cares [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishops Christmas homilies poorly received and rightly so, but there was one good one</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/27/archbishops-christmas-homilies-poorly-received-rightly-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the Christmas homilies of both the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Catholic Archbishop have been used as an opportunity for political attack and this has not been well received. Firstly the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams caught some flak for this comment: The most pressing question we now face, we might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN moves to protect believers, not belief, as they drop call for banning “defamation of religions.”</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/21/moves-protect-believers-belief-drop-call-banning-defamation-religions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is super news folks. On Monday, for the first time in more than a decade, the U.N. General Assembly condemned religious intolerance without urging states to outlaw “defamation of religion”. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – comprising 57 Islamic nations – have been trying for years to introduce a ‘Defemation of Religion” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron says UK is Christian in speech in Oxford for King James Bible 400th anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to say anything about David Cameron&#8217;s speech as so much has been said already. I think the general consensus in the Twitterati world seems to be that he&#8217;s a hypocrite, with a few folk suggesting he has no real faith, but more a belief in belief. Anyway, you can be the judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/12/good-links-46/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Tim Challies &#8211; Soft, Effeminate Christianity Protect the Pope &#8211; UK Equalities Commission condemns National Secular Society’s ‘thoroughly bonkers’ misuse of Human Rights Act A Reluctant Sinner &#8211; Joseph of Nazareth on Twitter &#8211; He only started tweeting ten days ago but already has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deification of the Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two quotes from two different sources peering through the metaphorical lens at the deification of the beast that must be obeyed; namely, The Market. The governments of the world, of course, bow down to the  Market. It is said you can&#8217;t buck it. You must prove yourself strong to be trusted. For if you cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/01/good-links-44/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I personally found interesting for one reason or another: Society for Christian Psychology: Mediation: Moving from Unforgiveness to Forgiveness Naming His Grace: Critiquing the theologies and connections of some pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel leaders: a series # 2 Melanie Phillips: From Red Toryism to Blue Labour, social renewal depends on Christian principles Countercultural Father: Mindfulness&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Exeter Protesters Set Up Camp at Cathedral &#8211; Why? #occupylsx</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously why? Why are the Occupy protesters setting up camp outside another bloomin&#8217; Cathedral? Can anyone enlighten me? The group calling themselves &#8220;Occupy Exeter&#8221;, in tribute to similar movements which began in New York and spread around the world, staged a protest march from the High Street in Exeter to the Cathedral on Saturday. Video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Sunday Parade, Pacifists and the Political Poppy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just returned from my local Remembrance Sunday parade and it was moving and fabulous as usual. On an aside, I heard the police commander say: &#8220;My people are ready to shut down all the streets&#8221;, wouldn&#8217;t you love to able to say that; just once! It was this time last year that I got into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Inquiry &#8211; Clearing the Ground &#8211; Investigates whether Christians are badly treated by the law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Parliamentary inquiry called, Clearing the Ground, began on Tuesday to hear evidence on whether Christians are badly treated by the law and if they are being pushed out of society. It&#8217;s being run by Christians in Parliament, is chaired by Conservative MP Gary Streeter, and supported by the Evangelical Alliance. The first session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just why is it that Catholic countries are needing bailouts from Protestant countries?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian rasies this question in a comment and I must admit its given me pause for thought. It does seem strange. Christian gives a rather bleak explanation: Interesting tho’ how it is the Catholic/Non-Protestant countries that have been hit the hardest in the Eurozone. Partly because they were economical with the truth about their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quote comes from a sobering and thoughtful blog post written by Cranmer, which is well worth a read in its entirety. Pope Benedict XVI observed a few years ago that the global financial crisis ‘shows the futility of money and ambition’. He said: ‘He who builds only on visible and tangible things like success, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lucid and comprehensible Christian response to #occupylsx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it comes courtesy of Revd John Richardson and can be read here. UPDATE: Ah, just spotted +Nick Baines post on this topic and also well worth a read.]]></description>
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		<title>83% Christians oppose Conservative proposal to legalize same-sex marriages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And of that 83%, three-quarters were &#8216;strongly opposed&#8217;. British Religion in Numbers have all the details. Overall the Conservative Party risks losing 57% of Christian votes, if they go ahead with legalizing gay marriage, and not one respondent claimed this move would predispose them to vote Conservative. Here are some of the concerns raised: 85% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dean of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Rev Graeme Knowles, has resigned over #OccupyLSX</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So another victory for the &#8220;Protest the London Stock Exchange&#8221;, the Dean of St Paul&#8217;s cathedral, Rev Graeme Knowles, has just resigned citing his position had become untenable. My congratulations to #occupylsx for securing another fine victory in their fight against, erm, a cathedral. Here&#8217;s some of my fav Twitter responses for your edification: So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did a critique of capitalism turn into a debate about the church? #occupylsx</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know I&#8217;m blathering on quite a bit about the St Paul&#8217;s protests and am getting a little obsessive, so you&#8217;ll have to forgive my foibles on this one. I want to draw attention to two excellent blog posts on this matter. The first is written by Richard Littledale and looks at the dangers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crappy Quote of the Day &#8211; #occupylsx Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen some crap on the #occupylsx Twitter stream, but this one takes the biscuit: I&#8217;ve also seen today Christians &#8216;despairing&#8217; that the CofE won&#8217;t support the protests; the question I&#8217;d like to ask them is what about the superb work the church does for the poor and oppressed, day in, day out, all year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Giles Fraser Canon of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral resigns over #occupylsx</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/27/dr-giles-fraser-canon-st-pauls-cathedral-resigns-occupylsx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the left-leaning Canon of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Dr Giles Fraser, has martyred himself resigned over the Occupy St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral Occupy the London Stock Exchange protests. Apparently he is upset at plans to forcibly remove protesters from St Paul&#8217;s steps, saying he could not support the possibility of &#8220;violence in the name of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian housing manager Adrian Smith demoted for Facebook gay marriage comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Mail is featuring the plight of housing manager Adrian Smith, who made some private comments relating to the proposals for &#8216;gay marriage&#8217; on Facebook and has been demoted as a result. He works for Trafford Council Housing Trust and made the comment on his private Facebook page &#8211; in his own time &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Paul’s Cathedral closes over #occupylsx</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll have to forgive me for the tone of the blog post; but the radical left really does get under my skin at times. News has broken that St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral will be closing its doors for the first time since the second world war, due to the protesters camped outside. Twitter is ablaze with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ekklesia attack St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral clergy for not joining with the &#8216;Occupy the London Stock Exchange&#8217; protests.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8217; protests have gone global and yesterday in London came the: &#8216;Occupy the London Stock Exchange&#8217; protest. It would seem that police prevented protesters from setting up camp outside the London Stock Exchange, and so they moved to St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral Churchyard. Ekklesia&#8217;s Associate Director Jill Segger appears to have been on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop of Canterbury set to meet Robert Mugabe &#8211; Credit where credit&#8217;s due</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is reporting that Archbishop Dr Williams is due to meet President Mugabe later today. The ABC has &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; been ballsy and forthright; here&#8217;s a snippet from his sermon: Because this is part of our problem. It is not only that some refuse the invitation of God to share his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep On Crunching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a cross-post written by David Lyndsay who to be honest &#8211; if you spend time following his blog &#8211; strikes me as a polymath. On top of that he has the ability to wax lyrical on topics he chooses in a manner that makes me quite jealous. Anyway, here&#8217;s a recent blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The precarious predicament of Syrian Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among analysts of the ongoing unrest in Syria, it is a truism that the main reason Christians are generally not participating in demonstrations against Assad’s rule is because they fear reprisals at the hands of the Sunni Arab majority if the Alawite-dominated regime falls. Alawites, who have incorporated Christian practices into their syncretic, Shi’a-rooted religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Bendict&#8217;s address to the German Parliament</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/22/pope-bendicts-address-german-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr President of the Federal Republic, Mr President of the Bundestag, Madam Chancellor, Mr President of the Bundesrat, Ladies and Gentlemen Members of the House, It is an honour and a joy for me to speak before this distinguished house, before the Parliament of my native Germany, that meets here as a democratically elected representation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing: The Ultimate Christian Zionism SmackDown &#8211; Calvin L Smith vs Stephen Sizer</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/22/announcing-the-ultimate-christian-zionism-smackdown-calvin-l-smith-vs-stephen-sizer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh this is gonna be good folks. Dr Calvin Smith &#8211; the leading Christian Zionist scholar in the UK &#8211; has just announced on his blog that Revelation TV will host a 90 minute live debate between him, and Revd Stephen Sizer &#8211; the foremost Christian anti-Zionist in the UK. For links from this blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage briefly revisited &#8211; A few thoughts</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/20/gay-marriage-briefly-revisited-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;I don&#8217;t give a crap about gay marriage&#8221; was a bit of a Marmite blog post, but it did spark some good debate on Twitter. I thought I&#8217;d briefly flesh out &#8211; and clarify &#8211; a few of my thoughts on this matter. The first is that I feel us Christians are at risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government to grant full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/17/government-grant-full-marriage-rights-gay-lesbian-couples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the government is to press ahead with legislation to permit &#8216;gay marriage&#8217;. Christian keyboards are ablaze. And I don&#8217;t give a crap. Every single day I read news of slaughtered, raped, murdered, tortured, intimidated, terrified, abducted, imprisoned, threatened with hanging, forced to convert, brutalised, Christians. I really don&#8217;t give a crap if gay folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris: Public prayer banned to combat Muslims taking over streets</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/16/paris-public-prayer-banned-combat-muslims-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an ongoing problem in Paris with Muslims shutting down entire major streets to perform their prayers, as a result, legislation has been passed banning ALL street prayer. This law may be extended to other Mediterranean cities. This from the Mail caught my attention: Public funding of places of worship has been banned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odds and Ends</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/14/odds-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As depression and anxiety begin to ravage my mind, this post will be a random patchwork of things that have caught my attention. My depression and anxiety are non-reactive and endogenous, or put another way, not sparked by external changes in circumstances. Psychology today has a little piece on anxiety and I can&#8217;t decide if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, climbdown over breaking seal of confession</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/13/alan-shatter-irelands-minister-justice-climbdown-breaking-seal-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good: Alan Shatter, Ireland’s Minister for Justice, has admitted that despite voicing his adamant commitment in July to force priests to break the seal of confession that legislation released this autumn will not include any reference to the sacrament of Confession. &#8230;.continue]]></description>
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		<title>Gregg Beamen: Time for a A Catholic Political Party For England?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/12/gregg-beamen-time-catholic-political-party-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious parties and candidates are not a new idea of course, and it&#8217;s fair to say that they performed abysmally in the last election, polling an amount comparable with the BNP, which isn&#8217;t saying much, when you consider that the BNP vote collapsed. Still, there are many and varied reasons contributing to these poor Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/12/quote-day-85/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Christians dare to be convicted, they are portrayed as bigots. When they articulate a view with which others may disagree, they are dogmatic. When they fall short of perfection, they are pilloried and cast as hypocrites. When they defend the unborn, they are unenlightened. When they oppose animal-human embryos, they are anti-science. When they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Number of Orthodox Christians rises, non-believers decline, priest to run for president</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always satisfying to chart the growth of the Kingdom of God, and Russia&#8217;s where it&#8217;s happening right now. 69% of the Russians define themselves as Orthodox Christians, and 5% say they are Muslims. No more than 1% are Catholics, Protestants, Judaists or followers of other religions, the Yury Levada analytical center told Interfax on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/05/quote-day-78/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Furedi is a famous contrarian – he takes on accepted wisdom and turns it on its head – and tolerance is the perfect subject for him. He knocks down the pieties and delusions of our age with neat elegance, but lands you up in very uncomfortable places. His argument is that in our enthusiasm for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life after Assad looks ominous for Syria&#8217;s Christian minority</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The security situation for Christian minority groups in North Africa and the Middle East has always been precarious at best; however, I know I&#8217;m not alone in fearing a deterioration as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings. As despotic as these regimes were, they often kept the extremist element of Islam in check for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pathetic: Guardian censors Peter Saunders comment even though the article mentions him.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/03/pathetic-guardian-censors-peter-saunders-comment-article-mentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has an article entitled: Anti-abortion bid in disarray as critics rally, in which they seek to identify the organisations that support Nadine Dorries, and how they are funded. Within the article Peter Saunders is mentioned: Dorries confirmed that her campaign was being advised by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion: Mini war breaks out over Nadine Dorries MP &amp; Frank Field MP proposed amendments to the Health Bill</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/29/abortion-mini-war-breaks-nadine-dorries-mp-frank-field-mp-proposed-amendments-health-bill/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that a war of words has broken out over proposed amendments to the health bill put forward by Nadine Dorries MP &#38; Frank Field MP. As these amendments relate to abortion, which continues to be such a contentious issue in our society, one can be forgiven for expecting a backlash when abortion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Historic decree for the restitution of 1000 properties to the Greek-orthodox Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following hot on the heels of the superb news yesterday that the Czech government commission has agreed to return 56% of church property and compensate them $3.49 billion for property seized by the former Communist regime, we now have this from Turkey: In a sudden twist, the Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan has decided to return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Czech government commission and church agree on compensation package for church property seized by Communist regime</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/28/czech-government-commission-church-agree-compensation-package-church-property-seized-communist-regime/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prague Daily Monitor and Czech Position both report on the agreement reached on Aug. 24 between a Czech government commission and church representatives on compensating churches for property seized by the former Communist regime of Czechoslovakia. The agreement, which must now be approved by the Czech parliament, caps some 20 years of negotiations. Opposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality and Human Rights Commission reverses position on religious cases intervention</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Wagner of the UK Human Rights Blog has the details.]]></description>
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		<title>Draft Transitional Libyan Constitution Makes Islam the State Religion. But Protects Non-Muslims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Journal reported yesterday that even though Libya&#8217;s Transitional National Council is not fully in control of the country, a draft constitution has appeared online. The Draft Constitutional Charter for the Transitional Stage includes this provision regarding religious rights: Article (1) &#8230;Islam is the Religion of the State and the principal source of legislation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Britain: Broken by the Left</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/14/black-britain-broken-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post from my very good friend Edmund Standing: The recent wave of rioting and looting in Britain’s urban communities were by no means solely a ‘black thing’. A look at the people being charged with offences related to the riots reveals a wide cross-section of ethnicities and backgrounds. That said, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran urges British police to exercise restraint against protesters.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/09/iranian-foreign-ministry-spokesman-ramin-mehmanparast-urges-british-police-exercise-restraint-protesters/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/09/iranian-foreign-ministry-spokesman-ramin-mehmanparast-urges-british-police-exercise-restraint-protesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The irony is palpable: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast urged the British police to exercise restraint against protesters. Mehman-Parast asked the British government to start dialogue with the protesters and to listen to their demands in order to calm the situation down. He also called on the independent human rights organizations to investigate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/08/quote-day-57/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, what does the ‘soft-bigotry of low expectations’ look like in the context of recent events? Well, put plainly it is the drive toward rationalising behaviour that in all other stratas of society would be considered entirely beyond the pale, to the extent that the wholesale denunciation of such behaviour is often tempered by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacifist Aggressive: the Quaker echo chamber which empowers terrorism.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/07/pacifist-aggressive-quaker-echo-chamber-empowers-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/07/pacifist-aggressive-quaker-echo-chamber-empowers-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a cross-post by Israelinurse of CIFWatch: The decision taken in April 2011 by British members of the Religious Society of Friends – or Quakers, as they are perhaps better known – to officially join the BDS movement and engage in the boycotting of goods originating in certain parts of Israel brought the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US announces special envoy for religious minorities in Middle East</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/03/announces-special-envoy-religious-minorities-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/03/announces-special-envoy-religious-minorities-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm reported on Monday that the US Congress had passed a bill assigning a special envoy for minority affairs in the Middle East and Asia, allocating an annual budget of one million US dollars to support the rights of religious minorities in the region. The position, aimed at ‘promoting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/04/quote-day-39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Libyan rebels&#8217; would-be regime has been recognised by the Islamist government of Turkey. Have you got the message yet? SOURCE]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest warrant issued for Gadaffi. What about that monster Mugabe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/27/arrest-warrant-for-gadaffi-well-what-about-that-monster-mugabe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self congratulatory headlines abound today, after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Muammar Gaddafi and his cronies. Well whoopee. What about that murderous tyrannical despot Mugabe, who seemed able to swan through Europe recently, to attend the Vatican beatification ceremony of the late Pope John Paul II? All Mugabe needed was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/23/quote-day-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uncomfortable reality for the Middle East&#8217;s Christians, whose communities date back to the first centuries of the faith, is that the authoritarian regimes challenged by the Arab Spring often protected them against any Muslim hostility. SOURCE]]></description>
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		<title>Trevor Phillips chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Christian and Muslim integration</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/19/trevor-phillips-chairman-of-the-equality-and-human-rights-commission-ehrc-on-christian-and-muslim-integration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading headlines such as this one: Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government&#8217;s equalities boss I went to all the effort of popping out and spending two quid on a Sunday Telegraph, to read for myself this&#8230;. &#8230;..wide-ranging intervention into the debate over the role of religion in modern Britain. Well, I needn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/13/good-links-39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Assist News Service - Christian doctors to prescribe ‘spiritual healing’ for sickness Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion &#8211; UK Bill to Amend 1996 Arbitration Act Harry&#8217;s Place &#8211; Anglican vicar shills for Hamas support network in Malaysia Sultan Knish &#8211; The Rise of the Post-American Empires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it right or wrong for senior clergy to comment on political issues?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/12/wrong-senior-clergy-comment-political-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the recent controversial political comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the following was one of the questions in a YouGov poll on behalf of The Sunday Times: Is it right or wrong for senior clergy to comment on political issues? The results show an almost even split: Right &#8211; The Church has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop of Canterbury talks politics in the New Statesman</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/11/archbishop-canterbury-talks-politics-statesman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m a little behind the times due to my Oxford Jolly, but scanning through the news feeds it seems that every blogger and his dog has commented on the recent media furore following an article written by the ABC, that appeared in the New Statesman. I thought the most insightful thoughts on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaddafi vows to fight on &#8211; What other choice does he have?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/08/gaddafi-vows-fight-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post has an article citing Gaddafi as saying: &#8220;We only have one choice, we will stay in our land dead or alive&#8221; And he&#8217;s dead right, he has no other choice. He is not being offered any other viable way out. Consider this snippet from the International Crisis Group: Their repeatedly proclaimed demand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP David Simpson raises treatment of Christians in Parliamentary Debate</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/26/mp-david-simpson-raises-treatment-christian-parliamentary-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian MP David Simpson raised the subject of the [mis]treatment of Christians &#8211; globally and in the UK &#8211; in a parliamentary debate this week. You can read the debate here. You can watch it here (With Silverlight). I was interested in the the MP&#8217;s Wiki page, which had this to say: David Simpson (born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Good Links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/23/good-links-36/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 08:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Messianic Jewish Musings &#8211; FAQ: The Sabbath and Gentiles HomeBrewed Theology &#8211; Iranian Court Acquits 11 Christians BRIN &#8211; People of faith are marginally more likely to be comfortable discussing death in general and their own death in particular than those without a religion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/02/good-links-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 08:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Trevin Wax &#8211; Urban Legends: The Preacher&#8217;s Addition Storied Theology &#8211; How do you love? Christian Post &#8211; Bible Thwarts Suicide Attempt, Transforms One Man&#8217;s Life PJOnline &#8211; More sex please! We’re pharmacists British Religion in Numbers &#8211; Amending the Act of Settlement The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Poll: 32% view Islamic terrorism as posing the greatest threat to the European Union.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/19/uk-poll-32-view-islamic-terrorism-posing-greatest-threat-european-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) website points us to a new survey conducted by ICM Research for The Guardian. The poll covers five countries &#8211; Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Poland &#8211; with a sample of 5,023 adults aged 18-64, including 1,001 in Great Britain. The survey covers a wide spectrum of questions and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>52% agree more preferable Britain be regarded as a Christian country than atheistic</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/17/52-agree-preferable-britain-regarded-christian-country-atheistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ComRes have conducted a telephone poll on behalf of Christian Concern with a representative sample of 1,002 adults aged 18+. The poll seems to have been prompted by the legal case involving Eunice and Owen Johns who withdrew their application with Derby City Council to provide respite foster care. This action was taken because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-thirds of Britons would like to see the burqa banned</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/04/15/twothirds-britons-burqa-banned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s cut through the guff, the burqa is awful. It&#8217;s unsociable, intimidating, and segregating, and frankly alien to British sensibilities. Is this however, a sound enough reason to ban it? I&#8217;m not so sure. Hot on the heels of the French Burqa ban the British Religion in Numbers website has revealed that according to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaddafi: Western leaders Christian vs Muslim crusader war</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/31/gaddafi-western-leaders-christian-muslim-crusader-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was inevitably going to be spun this way. And what happens when if Gaddafi wins?]]></description>
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		<title>Brief a Bishop &#8211; House of Lords debate: Libya, Operation Odyssey, UNSCR 1973, Egypt, Middle East and Peace Process</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/31/bishop-house-lords-debate-libya-operation-odyssey-unscr-1973-egypt-middle-east-peace-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (1st April) Peers in the House of Lords will spend the whole day debating recent events in Libya and the wider Middle East. Charles Reed &#8211; Church of England advisor on foreign policy issues &#8211; has the complex task of ensuring the Church of England Bishops are properly briefed. Happily for us, over the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: Are we fighting for al-Qaeda?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/30/libya-fighting-alqaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of war is it, when a week after it begins, the NATO commander admits that he&#8217;s examining the possibility that maybe we&#8217;re actually fighting for Al-Qaeda. Our main enemy in that other war, which we&#8217;re neglecting in order to begin a war on yet another front. The very minimal condition for any war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/28/good-links-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Epiphenom &#8211; Religion and conflict: cause or coincidence? British Religion in Numbers &#8211; Church Attendance in England, 1980-2005 Sultan Knish &#8211; The Second Time as Farce Psychology Today &#8211; 10 Things Not to Say to a Depressed Person Religion Law Blog &#8211; Church Volunteers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) drops pursuit of U.N. Human Rights Council Defamation of Religion Resolution</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/26/organisation-islamic-conference-oic-drops-pursuit-human-rights-council-defamation-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is absolutely super news folks. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) &#8211; comprising 57 Islamic nations &#8211; have been trying for years to introduce a &#8216;Defemation of Religion&#8221; UN resolution. They have now dropped this pursuit. This would have only favoured Islam and ushered in a dangerous global blasphemy law. I think we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Court of Human Rights overturns ban on displaying crucifixes in school classrooms.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/18/european-court-human-rights-overturns-ban-displaying-crucifixes-school-classrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is breaking news and I can&#8217;t find anything online yet that I don&#8217;t have to pay for, except this link to the National Secular Society. Sorry about that. I&#8217;ll update this post as news becomes available from more friendly sources. UPDATE: Here&#8217;s the full judgement in PDF format This from the Associated Press: European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya: Absolutely nothing could be better calculated to provoke Islamist retaliation against the West</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/18/libya-absolutely-calculated-provoke-islamist-retaliation-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;.What this means for Western intervention is that we won’t be liberating a country from a universally despised dictator, we will be taking sides in a civil war. Indeed, a civil war in which Gaddaffi is not only the strongest force but quite possibly the most popular one. Nobody wants to believe that, but Gaddafi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardinal Keith O&#8217;Brien: UK Foreign aid should be tied to religious freedom for Christians.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/15/cardinal-keith-obrien-uk-foreign-aid-tied-religious-freedom-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again you read a snippet of sanity in the mainstream media, which breaks through the madness and gives you a sense of relief. There&#8217;s nothing more satisfying than when someone of import publicly takes the bull by the horns, and articulates what many of us have been thinking for a long time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons for Europe: The US and International Religious Freedom</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/14/lessons-europe-international-religious-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a cross-post by Charles Reed – of the Ethics and Foreign Policy blog – an adviser to the Church of England on foreign policy issues: Those pressing for the EU to pay greater attention to the issue of Christian persecution overseas often cite the US as a model of best practice. Reference is usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron wades into the case of the Christian foster carers Eunice and Owen Johns</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/09/david-cameron-wades-case-christian-foster-carers-eunice-owen-johns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been out most of the day and upon scanning my feeds on my return, there is one particular event that has prompted much ink to be spilt. This relates to comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday. Apparently, the Prime Minister was asked his thoughts on the outcome of the recent court case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/07/good-links-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: British Religion in Numbers &#8211; Searchlight on Religion Royal College of Psychiatrists &#8211; Healing by Paradox in the Christian Tradition (PDF) BBC -Rare King James Bible found in Wiltshire village church Ugley Vicar &#8211; If Gadaffi wins, does that make him OK again? Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti Assassinated</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/02/catholic-pakistan-minorities-minister-shahbaz-bhatti-assassinated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And yet another Pakistani politician seeking reform of the blasphemy law is murdered. The blasphemy laws carry a death sentence for anyone who insults Islam and is used to subjugate and terrify religious minorities. Mr Bhatti was Pakistan&#8217;s first and only Christian cabinet member. Pakistan’s leading Catholic politician has been murdered in the capital Islamabad. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Freedom and the European Union</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/23/religious-freedom-european-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a cross-post by Charles Reed &#8211; of the Ethics and Foreign Policy blog &#8211; an adviser to the Church of England on foreign policy issues: Writing about Europe can seriously damage your blog stats. The exception is if you write about the EU and its reluctance to robustly defend the persecuted Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christians and women protested for change in Egypt but now excluded from constitutional reform process</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/20/christians-women-protested-change-egypt-excluded-constitutional-reform-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Dr Jim West: CAIRO: The United States expressed its regret for the absence of any Egyptian female element on the newly appointed committee charged with proposing amendments to the Egyptian constitution, as women also protested for change and participated in the revolution that brought the possibility of change to Egypt, it said in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Powell&#8217;s Curveball to attack Iraq</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/18/colin-powells-curveball-attack-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this back in early 2010: I still shudder when I remember back to the speech Colin Powell gave to the UN in order to make the case for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. I was sitting in a hotel room in Egypt watching CNN and Colin Powell looked like a broken man. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The growing interpenetration between the Russian Orthodox Church and political power</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love reading about &#8211; and blogging on &#8211; the rise and rise of the phoenix that is the Russian Orthodox Church, and especially Patriarch Kirill&#8217;s ever growing political power. And here&#8217;s a juicy article on this subject for our consumption, if you&#8217;re in to this kind of thing&#8230;. The growing interpenetration between the Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes to AV &#8211; No to AV &#8211; The Alternative Vote Debate and Brain Freeze</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/09/av-av-alternative-vote-system-brain-freeze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. For some reason the whole &#8220;Alternative Vote&#8221; debate gives me brain freeze. What I mean by this, is that within a nanosecond of seeing: “Yes to AV” / “No to AV” my eyes glaze over and I enter into a brief catatonic state. I know this issue is important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Organisations or Quangos?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/07/voluntary-organisations-quangos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gregg over at A Brief Encounter blog has a fine post on the governmental funding cuts and the voluntary sector. I especially wish to draw your attention to this part: When I was in a position where I was advising new groups on establishing themselves I always advised them to avoid statutory funding where possible, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/02/07/good-links-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Connexions &#8211; My personal Lord and Saviour? Catholic Herald &#8211; Exorcist warns parents of rise in ‘demonic’ websites Christian medical Comment &#8211; Senior neonatologist brands official RCOG report on fetal awareness as ‘Emperor’s new clothes’ in leading journal editorial Protect the Pope &#8211; UK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Field MP: Early day Motion to force the Church of England to accept women bishops</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/31/frank-field-mp-early-day-motion-force-church-england-accept-women-bishops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I noted this article in the Telegraph: A group of influential MPs will tomorrow call for Parliament to intervene over the historic reform as fears grow that the Church will reject plans allowing female bishops. [.....] However, Mr Field has tabled an early day motion, which could abolish the Church&#8217;s current exemption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Copts join Egptian protests against Mubarak</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/29/christians-copts-join-egptian-protests-hope-mubarak-securing-freedoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s desperately difficult to get a true handle on the current situation in Egypt, as it&#8217;s ongoing, fluid and the authorities have severed Egypt from the Internet and disrupted telecommunications. I&#8217;ve noted Christian bloggers urging support of the uprising and Jim laments the silence of theologians and Biblical scholars. Personally, I am concerned that any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU calls for protection of Christians in Egypt. So will Egypt suspend dialogue with EU, as they did with Vatican?</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/21/eu-calls-protection-christians-egypt-egypt-suspend-dialogue-eu-vatican/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to report on a new EU Resolution condemning violence against Christians in Iraq and Egypt. So, my question to Egypt would be: Do the Egyptian authorities intend to withdraw from dialogue with the European Union, as they withdrew from dialogue with the Vatican, following the Pope&#8217;s criticism of recent Egyptian Muslim violence against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Pastor Terry Jones – of the burn a Qur’an fame – banned from entering Britain by the Home Office</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/20/pastor-terry-jones-burn-quran-fame-banned-entering-britain-home-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the controversial US Pastor Terry Jones – of the burn a Qur’an fame – has been banned from entering the UK by the government. I&#8217;m no fan of Terry Jones and I object to his shenanigans on many fronts. I&#8217;ve previously noted my concern of a backlash meted out against our Christian brothers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers should be taught how to cuddle and talk to their babies as part of a major Government drive</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/19/mothers-taught-cuddle-talk-babies-part-major-government-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not denigrating this initiative, however, I despair at our society if the report is indeed accurate. Telegraph: A Coalition-backed report published today warns how many parents, particularly those on low incomes, are “ill-informed or poorly motivated” when it comes to raising their children. It recommends that a national parenting campaign – primarily aimed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/17/good-links-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Epiphenom &#8211; There&#8217;s no such thing as a gene for religion Lisa Graas &#8211; Thanks to CNN, You Now Have the Anti-Pope, Radical Muslim Conspiracy Theory from the Streets of Pakistan Archbishop Cranmer &#8211; Our children are not the property of the state Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK about to pass through the 1 trillion debt mark</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/17/uk-pass-1-trillion-debt-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this website: UK Debt Bombshell Although some have the &#8220;true&#8221; debt at around 4.8 trillion. Go Britain!]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian revisionist inversion of the Purim story</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/17/iranian-revisionist-inversion-purim-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Israel Today: In a couple of months, Israelis and Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, marking the deliverance of the Jews of the Persian Empire from extinction 2,300 years ago. In Iran, the center of the ancient Persian Empire, the date will be marked with mourning and anger. For years already, Iran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British diplomat Justin Bedford urges caution in EU defense of persecuted Christians in Islamic lands</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/01/14/british-diplomat-justin-bedford-urges-caution-eu-defense-persecuted-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a Vatican Radio interview with Justin Bedford, the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy to the Holy See, which you can listen to here: Justin Bedford Interview with Vatican Radio Justin Bedford was asked to respond to recent comments by Pope Benedict in which he spoke about religious freedom, and [...]]]></description>
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