How does the Church of England get its statements about LGB&T people so...
‘The Church of England’ (which I use as shorthand for everyone at Church House, members of the House of Bishops and College of Bishops, the Archbishops’ Council, everyone at Lambeth Palace and...
View ArticleThe bigger the front, the bigger the back
I’m reading The Examined Life: How we lose and find ourselves by Stephen Grosz at the moment. Stephen is a psychoanalyst; I was attracted by a review of his book in a recent Guardian Review. The book...
View ArticleChurch of England evidence to Same Sex Marriage Bill committee
Yesterday the Right Rev. Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich, William Fittall, secretary-general of the General Synod of the Church of England and Alexander McGregor, deputy legal adviser to the...
View ArticleNot in our names
Joanna Moorhead, deputy editor of the Catholic Herald from 1988-1992 writes in today’s Guardian. The online version is headlined “The crimes of the Catholic church: not in our names.” In the course of...
View ArticleBishop of Liverpool calls for Anglicans to “accept a diversity of ethical...
The Bishop of Liverpool, The Rt Reverend James Jones has used his presidential address to the March synod of the Diocese of Liverpool to call for Anglicans to “accept the diversity of ethical...
View ArticleLike the wideness of the sea – a prophetic vision of women and LGB&T people...
I read Maggi Dawn’s recently published book Like the Wideness of the Sea: Women bishops and the Church of England at the weekend. Last week I read Sarah Maxwell’s Transcendent Vocation: Why gay clergy...
View ArticleWe have a Gospel to proclaim!
“God is an intelligible space whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. God is within all things, but not enclosed, outside all things, but not excluded, above all things but not...
View ArticleLGB&T lives become a public battle ground once again
Being a gay man, a gay Christian and a gay Christian activist feel very uncomfortable identities this morning. Yet again, matters affecting my identity and my freedom to be the person God has created...
View ArticleThe Church of England, fear of change, and the True Self
“Perhaps loss is the price we pay for being human, for being beautifully fragile. In order for us to be human, things must change, things will and must get lost; we have to lose them in order to have...
View ArticleIs the Church of England going to help people become who they truly are?
Because I’m the Director of Changing Attitude, I’ve felt it necessary to be circumspect about revealing too much about my experience of God. I have been worried in the past that I would be pounced on...
View ArticlePrayer in support of the Equal Marriage Bill
Many Anglicans, gay and straight, catholic, middle of the road and evangelical, support equal marriage. Changing Attitude England has joined the members of the LGB&T Anglican Coalition to offer...
View ArticleTrying to make sense of the Archbishop of York’s speech in the Lord’s Equal...
I read the speech the Archbishop of York made in yesterday’s debate in the House of Lords during the Committee Stage of the Same Sex Marriage Bill with an increasingly heavy, sad heart. My heart felt...
View ArticleNo display for Changing Attitude at York General Synod
This year, Changing Attitude has not been allocated display space at the General Synod meeting in York. We have displayed at every Synod in London and York for about ten years. One benefit of having a...
View ArticleChristianity in a time of revolution – Archbishop Justin’s presidential address
At the end of yesterday afternoon’s opening session of General Synod in York the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered his first presidential address. His theme was revolution. He began by thanking all...
View ArticleA health report on the C of E following the York Synod
I’m travelling home from York with time to reflect on the General Synod meeting. I have enjoyed many very good conversations with bishops, clergy and lay Synod members, other exhibitors and Synod staff...
View ArticleThe crisis for the C of E will only intensify
The Church of England is in crisis. In an article for the Observer yesterday Robert McCrum argued that its position on women bishops and gay marriage has alienated much of society. The failure to...
View ArticleHow inclusive should the Church be – and am I an evangelical?
Canon John Binns, Vicar of Great St Mary’s, Cambridge, writes in the Church Times about the 83 per cent of those who identify as Anglican in national statistics but don’t come to church, leaving 17 per...
View ArticleWill Pilling and the House of Bishops engage with the full spectrum of...
Theology “must engage with our affective side, the emotions and feelings that arise from the experiences of exclusion and discrimination.” This statement comes from a review of a new book, Black...
View ArticleIs Pilling going to recommend the blessing of gay relationships?
A conservative blogger claimed yesterday that he had confirmed from a number of sources what the Pilling Report is going to recommend. The final draft is ready and it will propose that the Church of...
View ArticleGeneral Synod member supports Jamaican buggery law
Richard Bartholomew in his Notes on Religion reported a conference organized by the Jamaican Coalition for a Healthy Society and the Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship in Kingston, Jamaica on December 7,...
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