Category Archives: General Synod

Processing the process: LLF continues

Posted on February 5, 2024 by fluff35

After that lurch in the LLF process, once again, questions are raised about who is actually running things in the Church of England. Continue reading →

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Resets, settlement, commitments and explorations… A further update on LLF

Posted on January 29, 2024 by fluff35

So are we going forwards, or backwards? Wherever we are going, we won’t be there for at least another year. Continue reading →

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Keeping the church together?

Posted on January 7, 2024 by fluff35

Since I last posted here, some months have passed, but that doesn’t mean nothing has happened. We had the November Synod with hours more of ‘debate’ (which really meant people restating their positions yet again). Then, in December, after the … Continue reading →

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Is Synod polarised?

Posted on November 16, 2023 by fluff35

Another Synod, another vote.  After – what was it, over 8 hours? – on Living in Love and Faith in February, we were back in the debating chamber for even longer at the November Synod, this time to vote on … Continue reading →

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No more delays: what the history of the remarriage of divorced people says to the LLF debate

Posted on November 14, 2023 by fluff35

(Full version of the speech to General Synod I gave today, 14 November 2023) I am speaking against this amendment and the next two which want to halt it all until… well, as long as possible. As bishop Sarah said, … Continue reading →

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Leaky Church

Posted on October 27, 2023 by fluff35

Leaky Church. It’s a place where there is no creativity, hospitality or celebration. Rather than inviting people in, it shuts them out. Continue reading →

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Suspicion and fear

Posted on October 24, 2023 by fluff35

In the latest document to come to Synod, any sense of joy, of celebration, of welcome, of blessing, has now disappeared. Continue reading →

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Going to the stake: Living in Love and Faith as Synod approaches

Posted on October 22, 2023 by fluff35

Many of us on Synod and beyond are spending the weekend ploughing through the 108 pages of GS2328, the update on where the bishops now are, which contains versions of the three documents promised after February’s motion passed. GS2328 is … Continue reading →

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The ‘saviour moment’?

Posted on October 10, 2023 by fluff35

When I wrote about being in the most recent offshoot of the Living in Love and Faith process – the optimistically-named ‘Living with Difference’ – I began by hoping that there was some sort of way through, some ‘Click boom’ … Continue reading →

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Two meetings down, one to go: Living with Difference

Posted on September 15, 2023 by fluff35

“Two meetings down, one to go” is pretty much all I am allowed to say about the meetings of the Living with Difference group which has been convened in the spaces between the College and House of Bishops making their decisions on … Continue reading →

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