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Category Archives: Church of England and gender
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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Men as the Brides of Christ?
Queer theology and how men have read the Song of Songs, courtesy of Stephen Moore Continue reading
Can women be laity?
Here’s one of those great questions with a history that we have somehow forgotten about… This week, I’ve had the interesting experience of being an oral history source: interviewed by a student writing her dissertation on the history of the … Continue reading
Pandora: the Greek Eve?
(John William Waterhouse, Pandora, 1896) I think this is the first time I’ve posted the same piece on two of my blogs, but the topic seems relevant to both, so here we go; this, like many of the pieces on … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged Adam, Bible, Creation, Eve, marriage, mythology, Pandora, women
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Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch: a sermon
In one of those moments of diary failure with which we are all familiar, I thought that this coming Sunday I was down to preach at the 10 a.m. service immediately before the Annual Parochial Meeting. Wrong. I’m preaching at … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged conversion, diversity, Ethiopian eunuch, Handel, inclusion, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus, sermon
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Nothing new here: how the human sexuality debate repeats the women priests debate
Should a sheep among wolves wear her wolfskin coat? Continue reading
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Tagged General Synod, Guildford, history, ordination, sexuality, women
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