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Letters to the Editor: 11/14

Letters from our readers on conversion therapy in Sydney, the Episcopal Church and progressive politics, and the Global Anglican Communion

Court Halts Plans for Kenyan State House Church

The High Court judged ordered the attorney general to answer claims that the proposed 8,000-seat church violates Kenya's constitutional commitment to secularism.

Church of Nigeria Bans Politicians from Its Pulpits

Guidelines sparked by an attack-laden address in an Abuja church forbid speech “promoting partisan views or spreading political propaganda.”

Church Leaders Oppose IRS Change: ‘Jesus Was Political but Not Partisan’

Episcopal leaders, including four bishops, express frustration and concern with an IRS statement undermining the Johnson Amendment.

Letters to the Editor, April 25

TLC readers weigh in on tax exemption and Church silence on disputes and on showing the American flag in the nave.

Australia Debates Religious Freedom Bill

Australia’s national parliament begins each session with two gestures of faith: an acknowledgment of the nation’s traditional owners, and prayers “humbly beseeching” God to “direct and...

Anglican Priest Elected President of Seychelles

The Rev. Wavel Ramkalaran, whose political career emerged from a vocation to prophetic preaching, was elected president of Seychelles on October 25, in the small island nation’s first peaceful transition of power since its independence from Britain in 1976.

Standing at the Doors of the House of the Lord

The President’s Photo-Op and Our Need for Repentance By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid One of the strangest images of this strange time will undoubtedly be that of...

Limiting free speech? The Church’s response to pornography

"While the production and use of pornography has always been a problem, in recent years its impact has grown exponentially, in large part due to the Internet and mobile technology. Some have even described it as a public health crisis."

The next culture war?

What are the beliefs that are so integral to our faith that we must act upon them, even in the face of laws that allow no room for religious exemption? What are the convictions we hold in common that we can act upon together, even in opposition to the cultural consensus?

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