Sussex member of C OF E General Synod Advocates prison for gays
PRESS RELEASE BY CHANGING ATTITUDE SUSSEX One of the Sussex Diocese of Chichester representatives on the Church of England General Synod, Andrea Minichiello Williams, recently attended a conference in...
View ArticleShared Conversations on Sexuality, Scripture and Mission
GS Misc 1083 GENERAL SYNOD Shared Conversations on Sexuality, Scripture and Mission 1. The Pilling Report, published in November 2013, recommended that the church’s internal dialogue on the subject of...
View ArticleYork General Synod – same sex marriage and the common good
I’ve been at General Synod in York for nearly 24 hours and this is the first space I’ve created to retreat to my room, check emails and news and post a comment. I’ve been in conversation for almost...
View ArticleHomophobic bullying in church schools and demeaning language
The Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard, chair of the Board of Education, replied to questions about homophobic bullying in school on Friday evening at Synod. I don’t do shorthand so I was only able to...
View ArticleWomen bishops – finally
Yup, this afternoon the General Synod finally voted to allow women to become bishops, 20 years after the church had agreed they could be ordained as priests. Changing Attitude England has been totally...
View ArticleShared Conversations – grounds for optimism?
I’m an eternal optimist. Even when confronted with apparently intransigent and unmoving situations or when living through dark times, something inside me continues to believe that the future will...
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...
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