The Government are consulting on allowing religious bodies to hold homosexual civil partnerships. I am very uncomfortable about this. The Government insists that their proposals would not compel ministers to allow civil partnerships in their churches. I find that difficult to believe. It was in 2005 that homosexual adoption was made legal, yet within three [...]
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Civil Partnerships Government Consultation
Posted: 26th May 2011 by graham in Church, Culture, news_commentWorld to End Tomorrow
Posted: 20th May 2011 by graham in church culture, Global, My life, news_commentI have just heard. I am sitting in a coffee shop and was browsing through then news on my phone when I saw it in then BBC website. The world is due to be traumatized by the rapture of all Christians on Saturday according to a crackpot in the USA . What amuses me about [...]
Schools promote them, worried parents insist their children wear them and the manufacturers keep bringing out new and expensive styles of them. I heard an interview on the radio that seemed to be a pillorying of Transport Minister Norman Baker for being a keen cyclist and yet not wearing a cycling helmet. He also refuses [...]
Hallelujah Banned in Meadowhall Centre
Posted: 24th December 2010 by graham in Culture, news_comment, smileSee it. It has received millions of hits on YouTube. 26 Million hits as I write this. Shoppers in a Canada shopping mall were surprised by a flashmob performance of the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah. A church leader tried to organise one in the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield and asked permission to do so. [...]
Cohabiting is the culprit in family breakdown according to a report by the Centre for Social Justice. The report goes on to say the rising popularity of living together without marrying is largely to blame for the increase in broken homes. This is what I said in my preaching at the last two weddings that [...]
Police lose case against preacher
Posted: 13th December 2010 by graham in Church, Culture, news_comment, preach_it!A significant ruling in favour of Christian freedom of speech has been made in the case of a street preacher arrested for quoting the Bible on homosexuality. The police now have to pay £4,000 compensation to Anthony Rollins, who was handcuffed in Birmingham after using biblical passages to oppose homosexual sex. Mr Rollins was held [...]
Eat Coconut the Brain Food
Posted: 27th May 2011 by graham in news_commentIt seems Nestlé have discovered a brain food that is supposed to prevent Alzheimer’s in dogs. Medium chain triglycerides are the key, found in coconut fat. I’ll have a bar of that then! Bet they wished they made bounty.