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Category Archives: Church of England and gender
The animal now exists: remembering the 30th anniversary of the ordination of women
On 11 November 1992, the Church of England voted in favour of ordaining women as priests. I was there, as a member of General Synod, sustained by the Bach Rescue Remedy passed along our row by a nun. It’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, General Synod
Tagged gender, ordination of women, women priests
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Bake a cake for Living in Love and Faith: how to make your response count
15 January 2022 (minor updates subsequently) The story so far: this blog began as a reflection on participating in the Shared Conversations, and then – because I was asked to join Living in Love and Faith’s History thematic group – … Continue reading
Counter-cultural Cranmer?
As a historian, I am disturbed by the email’s statement that “Cranmer wrote these prophetic words: ‘What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies’”.
Because, quite simply, he didn’t. Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, General Synod
Tagged elections, General Synod, Thomas Cranmer
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Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (3)
Science isn’t neutral: it’s produced and read in particular social contexts Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged biology, blood, gender, menstruation
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Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (2)
What is the clitoris and what is it for? Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged clitoridectomy, clitoris, Isaac Baker Brown, Jane Sharp, orgasm, pleasure
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Fight the good fight(s): the ordination of women and the human sexuality debate
I was struck recently by how all the celebratory pieces I was reading about the 25th anniversary of women priests were written from the point of view of those women whose vocations to priesthood were doubted (for many centuries) but … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged embodiment, equality, laity, menstruation, ordination, WATCH, women, women priests
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Intersex in history
The risk of saying anything about people with VSC is that, not being one of them, I may have no right to comment. But I’m a historian, and there’s a history here, and perhaps my role is to inform people of that. Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged Alice Domurat Dreger, binaries, chromosomes, clitoris, DSD, eunuch, gonads, hermaphrodite, hormones, intersex, John Money, penis, Philip, VSC
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