Sighs. Signs. Sins & Such.

Sighs. Signs. Sins & Such. August 12, 2005

People enter a new chapel consecrated by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II at the Belarussky railway terminal.

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A gay Pentecostal church?

“It’s a big task, but thank God I don’t do it on my own strength,” Wood said. “I know God is with us, and he’s going to empower us to do this thing.”

H E R E‘s the whole article, which incudles:

Most if not all major English Bible translations — including the New King James Version that Jubilee Fellowship uses — contain scriptures strongly condemning homosexual activity.

Like many pro-gay theologians, Wood says the verses have been misinterpreted or were written by people who didn’t fully understand sexual orientation.

At one time, Wood believed the Bible condemned her, too. A believer who has struggled with her sexual orientation since she was 16 years old, she even attempted suicide once.

She now believes that the Scriptures, if correctly interpreted, don’t condemn sex between modern, committed, monogamous gay and lesbian couples.

If God opposes her lifestyle, Wood says, he hasn’t told her.

“He continues to answer my prayers, continues to bless me, continues to speak to my heart,” she said. “I can have a productive relationship with Jesus Christ as a gay Christian. I’m not a second-class citizen in the kingdom of heaven.”

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Jesus! Yep, there! On my pierogi!


If an online casino is willing to pay $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich bearing the face of the Virgin Mary, how much is a pierogi with the face of Jesus worth?

An Ohio woman hopes to find out.

Donna Lee says the image appeared in a pierogi — a Polish dumpling — as she was cooking it for Easter dinner at her home near Toledo. MORE.

Catholic Women

Regina, a wife and mother of 63 years of age, has a family that supports her choices. “I thank God for allowing me to follow my calling. Many people, especially Catholic women, supported me. I’m convinced that the Holy Ghost, sooner or later, will change the attitude of the Vatican, and quite soon women’s ordination will be accepted by all. The Church needs renewing, it needs new life blood.”

Regina’s story is long and it includes unpopular choices and many rejections. “I have been wishing to become a priest since I was a young girl. I had to give up my vocation because I had no models to look up to. In 1978 my husband became a deacon and I followed his training, but I was barred from ordination because of that unjust rule that says women cannot be priests. I studied theology and worked in a reformatory for a long time.”

Then Regina had a decisive encounter. She read in a newspaper that in 2002 seven women had been ordered priests on the Danube. “Last October, I met bishops Gisela Forster and Patricia Fresen in Munich, and was admitted to the program for women priests. “Today I’m a deacon,” continues Regina, “and I’m getting where I wanted to go. The way is still long, but in a not too far future I will be ordered priest.”

The day Regina Nicolosi is awaiting will come next June, when she will receive her holy orders from a woman who, like her, is challenging a Church “still too masculine.”

Here ’tis.

Anglican Men

Gay priests surveyed by the Daily Telegraph said they would defy their bishops and refuse to give guarantees they would abstain from sex in their relationships.

One priest told the paper that he was “furious” with the way gay clergy were being treated. The paper said that LGBT rights activists were predicting widespread revolt.
“If a bishop asks me if I am having sex I will say, it’s none of your business.

Frankly, it is a breach of my human rights for him even to ask,” said the Rev Stephen Coles of London.

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Finally …

Another vapid argument spawned by shoddy scholarship


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