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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Revenge of the Sticky Notes
[image: ProjectManhattan, Sticky Notes on the Wall, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sticky_Notes_2.jpg%5D The Church of England does love its sticky notes: the paper ones, not the online version. On my Parochial Church Council we are still living with the results of a sticky-note exercise … Continue reading
Posted in equal marriage, Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations
Tagged Edward de Bono, Eeva John, Marcus Green
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February 2023 General Synod: sex, sin and separation
Here is the story of ‘my’ Synod experience, for the record. Sorry it’s long but there was a lot of it. My take-home points would be that it is clear that conservatives are now focusing on two battles: to defend … Continue reading
Who Do We Think We Are? Group Work in Church
(Updated 7 Feb 2023) As we prepare for the February meeting of General Synod, we now know that Living in Love and Faith will be turning up on three consecutive days. On the Monday, there will be a presentation – … Continue reading
The wisdom of Solomon (or, that was the week, that was)
‘What are you up to at the moment?’ When I’m asked that question by people unconnected to the Church of England, I tend to reply in a very vague way, because surely they don’t really want the details? But some … Continue reading
Living in Love and Faith: some thoughts on the Church Society’s report
This week General Synod members received a report sent to them from the Church Society, taking issue with the most recent documents from LLF. It was only a matter of time. It has been obvious, since the point at which the LLF process … Continue reading
Extending our search for the truth: reviewing Past Cases Review 2
Today PCR 2 – Past Cases Review 2 – was published by the National Safeguarding Steering Group. It describes itself as “the most extensive review of records ever conducted by the Church of England”. “There are no possible excuses, no rationalisations for our church’s … Continue reading
Posted in Living in Love and Faith, Safeguarding
Tagged bishops, deference, IICSA, sexism
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When the information flow stops: where is Living in Love and Faith?
The country, and the Church of England, return to normality today. I assume that means the country will return to the questions of economics, inequality, health and justice which have been put on hold. For the Church of England, among … Continue reading
Posted in General Synod, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged College of Bishops, discernment, gender, House of Bishops, sexuality, The Queue
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Living in Love and Faith: the final documents?
Yesterday, without much of a fanfare, some more documents were published to add to the ‘LLF book’, and the course, and the videos, and the podcasts, and the papers only accessible through registering with the ‘Hub’. We’d been expecting two … Continue reading