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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Intimate Matters Part 2: Common usage?
It seems to me that the real challenge is whether we can negotiate our different expressions of loving relationships with others according to our firm convictions, while not judging those who make other choices. On the evidence of the PMM debate, apparently we can’t. Continue reading
Intimate Matters Part 1: Beyond the indeterminate physical
What are we talking about in the C of E when we use the terminology of ‘intimacy’? Continue reading
Synod At Home (3) – Long Monday
Why can’t the bishops agree to welcome people regardless of sexual orientation? Continue reading
Posted in General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage, Safeguarding
Tagged General Synod, homosexuality, Prayers of Love and Faith, sexuality, trust
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Learning to love and be loved: bishops, bodies and my Private Member’s Motion
I’ve been silent here since the end of May; and in that piece, I commented that “it’s over two months since I last posted here, and readers may be wondering whether I’m still alive”. Now we are in July, regular readers … Continue reading
Five Guiding Principles and two key issues for the Church: recognising the wiggle room
Five Guiding Principles – why leave it at that? We’ve been told we could add a Sixth… Continue reading
Consider the lilies: on changing one’s mind
How the church flowers debate cheered up this member of Synod! Continue reading
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Tagged environment, House of Bishops, Mary Tanner, ordination of women, parish, synod
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February 2026: Questions raised by Synod Questions
Theological undergirding and unlawful use of your parts – some moments from Questions at Synod Continue reading
Concluding without ending: what happens next with Living in Love and Faith?
February 2026’s meeting of General Synod is nearly upon us; the papers came out last week and I am starting to make my way through them. There’s a very full agenda but, for the moment restricting my thoughts to Living … Continue reading
What colour should it be? ‘Furthering’ Living in Love and Faith
Pllaying with words is so much easier than thinking about the people whose lives are most affected by the continued inertia of the Church of England. Continue reading
The Third Province: Welcome to Mercia
Mercia? I wonder how many of those who read this blog realise that the ‘third province’ which some conservative evangelicals are promoting already has a name, even though it doesn’t exist? These conservatives say they are willing to remain in … Continue reading
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