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Category Archives: Church of England and gender
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
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Tagged Adam, Bible, Creation, Eve, marriage, mythology, Pandora, women
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Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch: a sermon
April, 2018: 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 … Continue reading
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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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No tongues?
It can be a difficult experience to attend a major Christian celebration at a point when the church is reeling from yet another scandal. Last week, the Gibb report into the disgusting behaviour of Bishop Peter Ball was issued, complete … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, cathedral, club, Dean, Gibb report, godly life, kiss, litany, Michael Ball, ordination, Peter Ball, sermon, St Paul, tribes
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Return to the public gallery
Having written to my bishops (replies received, thanks) and to lay representatives of my diocese on General Synod (wish I could say the same), I was sufficiently disappointed in the Bishops’ Report (GS2055) that I took the opportunity to go … Continue reading
Into Advent
I’m trying to take Advent seriously this year by immersing myself as far as I can in the rich symbolism of watching and waiting, of light and darkness, of hope and fulfillment. So naturally it had to begin with … Continue reading
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Tagged binaries, candles, Catherine Rowett, gender, Hills of the North rejoice, hymns, Janet Morley, race, tradition
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One sex, two sexes, and Christians
The wonderful Twitter just drew my attention to this article I’d missed on the OUP blog when it was published in July: ‘The influence of premodern theories about sex and gender’ by Adrian Thatcher. Thatcher asks great questions about why … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Thatcher, Bible, binaries, Hesiod, Hippocrates, intersex, one-sex body, Pandora, Thomas Laqueur, transgender, women priests
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Temple prostitution for Christians
Sex in the ancient world: it’s all about temple prostitutes, depraved emperors and orgies, right? Wrong. As readers of this blog will have noticed, now that the Shared Conversations in the Church of England appear to be over, I’ve moved … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Athens, Bacchanalia, Bosco Peters, Diana Swancutt, G.E.R. Lloyd, genre, Greece, Ian Paul, idols, King James Bible, lesbians, Livy, monogamy, orgies, pagan, Paris school, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:26-27, Rome, St Paul, temple prostitutes, translations
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