The issue of homosexuality remains a controversy in the Anglican Communion. During the thirteenth Lambeth Conference in 1998 it was decided that ordaining non-celibate gay clergy was "incompatible with Scripture" by a vote of 526-70; however it also contained a statement declaring this policy would not be the final word and research would continue. Other resolutions passed include "Issues in Human Sexuality" which was approved in 1991 stating stable sa ...

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• Anglican views of homosexuality - Summary of Issues
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Gay bishop controversy
• Anglican views of homosexuality - 2004 Church Letter
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Subsequent Division
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Windsor Report and 2005 Primates Meeting
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Stance of Churches
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of England
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Australia
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Canada
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Central Africa
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Ireland
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Kenya
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Nigeria
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Scottish Episcopal Church
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Southern Africa
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church of the Sudan
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Tanzania
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Uganda
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church in the United States of America
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of West Africa
• Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of the West Indies

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Anglican views of homosexuality, Anglican views of homosexuality - Summary of Issues, Anglican views of homosexuality - Gay bishop controversy, Anglican views of homosexuality - The 2003 Lambeth Palace meeting, Anglican views of homosexuality - 2004 Church Letter, Anglican views of homosexuality - Subsequent Division, Anglican views of homosexuality - Windsor Report and 2005 Primates Meeting, Anglican views of homosexuality - Stance of Churches, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of England, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Central Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Ireland, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Kenya, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Nigeria, Anglican views of homosexuality - Scottish Episcopal Church, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Tanzania, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Uganda, Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of West Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of the West Indies

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On August 2003 the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson as bishop. This came shortly after a similar controversy in the UK, when the gay Canon Jeffrey John was almost consecrated Bishop of Reading. However, at that time John agreed to withdraw in order to avoid division. Although later in 2004 in the aftermath of the Gene Robinson, Jeffrey John was then installed as ...

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Anglican views of homosexuality, Anglican views of homosexuality - Summary of Issues, Anglican views of homosexuality - Gay bishop controversy, Anglican views of homosexuality - The 2003 Lambeth Palace meeting, Anglican views of homosexuality - 2004 Church Letter, Anglican views of homosexuality - Subsequent Division, Anglican views of homosexuality - Windsor Report and 2005 Primates Meeting, Anglican views of homosexuality - Stance of Churches, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of England, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Central Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Ireland, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Kenya, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Nigeria, Anglican views of homosexuality - Scottish Episcopal Church, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Southern Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America, Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church of the Sudan, Anglican views of homosexuality - Anglican Church of Tanzania, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of Uganda, Anglican views of homosexuality - Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of West Africa, Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of the Province of the West Indies

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The Anglican Communion Network (officially the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes) is a theologically conservative network of dioceses and parishes that are currently a part of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). It was officially formed in January 2004 at a conference in Plano, Texas attended by several hundred priests and lay leaders, including 12 Episcopal bishops. Its main intent is to provide a system to supply theologically conservative leadership and church oversight to Anglican ...

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The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) is a Christian missionary organization active in the United States. Established in 2000, it aims to be an alternative jurisdiction to the Episcopal Church of the USA, the long-established denomination for Anglican Communion members in the United States. The AMiA was formed by conservative Episcopalians and Anglicans who see the Episcopal Church of the United Sates (ECUSA) as apostate, thus lacking legitimate authority. AMiA members criticize the ECUSA's accepting sexually active h ...

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• Anglican Mission in America - Related

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The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican Church in Nigeria. It is also the second-largest Province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England. It claims 15 million members. However, the Church of Nigeria is generally accepted to be the largest Anglican province by number of worshippers. The Church of Nigeria has 78 dioceses in 3 ecclesiastical provinc ...

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The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organisation of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" since each national or regional church has full autonomy; as the name suggests, rather, the Anglican Communion is an association of these churches in full communion with each other and particularly with the Church of England, which may be regarded as the "mother church" of the worldwide communion. Fo ...

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• Anglican Communion - What holds the Communion together?
• Anglican Communion - History
• Anglican Communion - Recent controversies
• Anglican Communion - Relationship with the Roman Catholic Church
• Anglican Communion - Related topics

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Different cultures, time periods, and belief systems have diverse variations in their opinions on the morality of homosexuality, bisexuality and the choice of sexual orientation in general. In recent decades, many societies which formerly treated homosexuality as a crime have now repealed those laws on the basis of civil rights, privacy rights, and changing social attitudes. The increasing social acceptance of homosexuality has been attributed to a range of diverse causes, including the sexual revolution, the gay rights movement, a gr ...

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• Religion and sexual orientation - Overview
• Religion and sexual orientation - Organized religions
• Religion and sexual orientation - Aspects of the conflict
• Religion and sexual orientation - Reactions to homosexuality
• Religion and sexual orientation - View that homosexuality is moral morally acceptable or is not an issue of morality
• Religion and sexual orientation - Controversy over parallels with other civil rights movements
• Religion and sexual orientation - Genetic determination choice and change
• Religion and sexual orientation - Attacks based on stereotypes linking homosexuality to other behaviors
• Religion and sexual orientation - Views of specific religious groups
• Religion and sexual orientation - Atheists agnostics and secularists
• Religion and sexual orientation - Abrahamic
• Religion and sexual orientation - Buddhism Confucianism and Taoism
• Religion and sexual orientation - Hinduism
• Religion and sexual orientation - Greco-Roman religion
• Religion and sexual orientation - Mythological figures who engaged in same-sex love

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The Confessing Movement is a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant denominations to return those churches to what the members of the movement see as theological orthodoxy. It relates and cross pollinates with other conservative Christian movements such as Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Holiness groups, Anabaptists, and Fundamentalists. Its members have a stated committment to remain in their home denominations, unless forced out, to stay and work for reform from within, in contrast to what they see as other m ...

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• Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches
• Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy
• Confessing Movement - United States of America
• Confessing Movement - Presbyterian
• Confessing Movement - Methodist
• Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican
• Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren
• Confessing Movement - Lutheran
• Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ
• Confessing Movement - Australia
• Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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• Homosexuality - Etymology and usage
• Homosexuality - Academic study
• Homosexuality - Anthropology
• Homosexuality - Biology
• Homosexuality - Psychology
• Homosexuality - Nature versus nurture
• Homosexuality - Societal attitudes
• Homosexuality - Modern law
• Homosexuality - Understudied phenomena
• Homosexuality - Political aspects
• Homosexuality - Military
• Homosexuality - Youth groups
• Homosexuality - Religion
• Homosexuality - Polemic
• Homosexuality - Historical and geographical practices
• Homosexuality - Africa
• Homosexuality - Americas
• Homosexuality - East Asia
• Homosexuality - Europe
• Homosexuality - Middle East and Central Asia
• Homosexuality - South Pacific
• Homosexuality - Modern Developments
• Homosexuality - Art and literature
• Homosexuality - Articles
• Homosexuality - Categories

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Chastity, in many religious and cultural contexts, is a virtue concerning the state of the mind and body. Due to prohibitions of sexual intimacy in Abrahamic religions deriving from the Decalogue and Mosaic law, the term has become closely associated with premarital sexual abstinence in Western culture; however, in the context of religion, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance. Chastity - Classical origin. In a ...

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• Chastity - Classical origin
• Chastity - Abrahamic religions
• Chastity - Vocational expressions of chastity
• Chastity - Sources

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The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, and acts as the 'mother' and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. Church of England - Theology and sociology. The Church of England considers itself to stand both in a reformed tradition and in a catholic (but not Roman Catholic) church tradition: Reformed insofar as many of the principles of the Protestant Reformation have influenced it, and insofar as ...

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• Church of England - Theology and sociology
• Church of England - Governance and administration
• Church of England - Appointments
• Church of England - History
• Church of England - Related churches
• Church of England - Financial situation
• Church of England - External link

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The Alpha course is a course on the basics of the Christian faith. It has spread all over the world and is currently run in 152 countries by many different denominations. Alpha course - Structure. The Alpha course is organized as a series of sessions over ten weeks, starting with some food, a talk (often a video of one by Nicky Gumbel), and discussion in small groups. The aim is for the talks to cover the basic beliefs of Christianity. The complete list of talk titles is: Christianity: Boring, ...

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• Alpha course - Structure
• Alpha course - History
• Alpha course - Praise
• Alpha course - Critics
• Alpha course - Related and alternative courses

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The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was formed on June 22, 1977 when the Methodist Church of Australasia, Presbyterian Church of Australia and Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union document. The third largest denomination in Australia (the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches are larger), the UCA has 312,858 members in 2,247 congregations (2000 figures). Uniting Church in Australia - Organisation. The UCA is governed by a series of councils: ...

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• Uniting Church in Australia - Organisation
• Uniting Church in Australia - Assembly
• Uniting Church in Australia - Synods
• Uniting Church in Australia - Presbyteries
• Uniting Church in Australia - Congregations
• Uniting Church in Australia - Agencies
• Uniting Church in Australia - Education
• Uniting Church in Australia - Ministry in the UCA
• Uniting Church in Australia - Culture
• Uniting Church in Australia - Liturgy
• Uniting Church in Australia - Decision making
• Uniting Church in Australia - Commitment to ecumenism
• Uniting Church in Australia - Theology
• Uniting Church in Australia - Ordination of homosexual people
• Uniting Church in Australia - Assembly Dates Leaders and Locations

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The Right Honourable Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born October 4, 1947, in Bath, Somerset) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, a Privy Counsellor, and an outspoken supporter of traditional family values. She holds Honours degrees in Latin (BA University of Birmingham) and in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford). She contested the seat of Burnley in 1979, and then Plymouth Devonport in 1983 against David Owen. She was first elected to th ...

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• Ann Widdecombe - Bibliography

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denomin ...

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• Criticism of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding the Bible
• Criticism of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding Selective Interpretation of the Bible
• Criticism of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding Christianity and Tolerance
• Criticism of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding Christianity and Science
• Criticism of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding Christianity and Reason
• Criticism of Christianity - Christian Responses to Criticisms of Christianity

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church ...

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• Liberal Christianity - Difficulties in definition
• Liberal Christianity - History
• Liberal Christianity - Characteristics of Liberal Christianity
• Liberal Christianity - Criticisms of Liberal Christianity
• Liberal Christianity - Liberal theology
• Liberal Christianity - The tenets of Liberal theology
• Liberal Christianity - Liberal theology and religious language
• Liberal Christianity - Liberal hermeneutics
• Liberal Christianity - Liberal Christian Theologians and Authors
• Liberal Christianity - Protestant
• Liberal Christianity - Catholic

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Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth (1864-1945) was Archbishop of York (1908-1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928-1942). Lang (like his predecessor as Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson) was a Scot and originally a Presbyterian. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at Oxford, and studied law, envisaging a career as a barrister and probably later as a progressive Conservative politician. However, he became convinced that he was called to be a priest, and wi ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations ...

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• Christianity - Overview
• Christianity - Denominations of Christianity
• Christianity - History
• Christianity - Beliefs
• Christianity - The Trinity
• Christianity - Jesus Christ as God
• Christianity - Jesus Christ as Salvation
• Christianity - Crucifixion and Resurrection
• Christianity - The Second Coming
• Christianity - The Afterlife
• Christianity - Differences in Beliefs
• Christianity - Nicene Creed
• Christianity - Scriptures
• Christianity - Worship and practices
• Christianity - Weekly worship services
• Christianity - Holidays
• Christianity - Symbols
• Christianity - Persecution
• Christianity - History and denominations
• Christianity - Notes
• Christianity - References and select bibliography

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Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those in religious orders (female or male) adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage, sexual relationships including masturbation and "impure thoughts" (such as sexual visualisation and fantasies). Clerical celibacy - Background. In some Christian churches, priests and/or bishops must remain unmarried, while in others, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests but may not typically remarry after th ...

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• Clerical celibacy - Background
• Clerical celibacy - Rules
• Clerical celibacy - Celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
• Clerical celibacy - Celibacy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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