-
Recent Posts
- What colour should it be? ‘Furthering’ Living in Love and Faith January 7, 2026
- The Third Province: Welcome to Mercia December 29, 2025
- ‘We need the theology’: what has now been released, and does it answer the real questions? November 8, 2025
- Living in Love and Faith, October 2025: What’s changed? October 28, 2025
- This week in Living in Love and Faith: On the Alliance Campaign Manual October 16, 2025
Categories
- Church of England and gender (30)
- Ecumenical movement (1)
- Episcopal Teaching Document (15)
- equal marriage (22)
- General Synod (53)
- Living in Love and Faith (76)
- marriage (18)
- preaching (3)
- Renewal and reform programme (5)
- Safeguarding (17)
- Shared Conversations (49)
- Uncategorized (8)
Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Trusting in Love and Faith? A January 2025 Update
Another day, another LLF-related meeting… I’ve been to many of these over the years, several with whichever bishops were designated ‘lead bishop’, and one memorable gathering with Justin Welby when he was Archbishop of Canterbury. There’s usually a cup of … Continue reading
Yet another autumn of Living in Love and Faith
I am running out of titles, as another year of the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process approaches its end; in last year’s autumn update I shared some of the dates but it has all become far more complicated … Continue reading
Farewell August: time for the Church of England to wake up?
I’ve never really understood ‘Church August’. ‘Church January’? ‘Church post-Easter’? Sure: the rhythm of the Christian calendar means that there are points when everyone needs some down time after a burst of particularly intense activity. But in August, for purely … Continue reading
The c-word: what happened in those London churches?
And so it goes on; ‘it’ being the reaction in one section of the Church of England to what are called “the faithless LLF proposals”, produced by the “unorthodox” House of Bishops, aka our “compromised leadership”, etc etc. This really … Continue reading
Milestone Day or Groundhog Day?
July Synod is over. Another long meeting, which was extended by having a separate meeting of the House of Laity before ‘Synod proper’. This time around, we had earlier starts (8.45), shorter meal breaks, and one evening session scheduled to … Continue reading
LLF: Moving Forward as One Church
For those who don’t have the time or the inclination to read the latest document and the latest motion arising from Living in Love and Faith, which come to Synod in July – both in the 31-pages of GS2358 – here’s my … Continue reading
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage
Tagged CEEC, Church Society, ecclesiology, equal marriage, House of Bishops
3 Comments
Transparency, trust and bishops
I’ve been silent on this blog for a while. Partly that’s because I haven’t been involved in the three Working Groups which have been meeting to discuss various facets of the ongoing Living in Love and Faith discussions (even though … Continue reading
Jesus is coming, look busy: onwards with Living in Love and Faith?
There used to be bumper stickers with the message, ‘Jesus is coming – look busy!’ Leaving aside the dodginess of that idea – and here I’d mention the Archbishop of York’s counter-argument, Do Nothing to Change Your Life: Discovering What Happens … Continue reading
sharedconversations 