Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith

Surviving Lockdown 3: a guest post

Posted on January 23, 2021 by fluff35

What’s it like living on your own at 86 in lockdown? Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith | Tagged grace, lockdown, pandemic, single, structure | 1 Comment

Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (4)

Posted on November 12, 2020 by fluff35

Masturbation, of course, has a history – like everything else. Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith | Tagged masturbation, Onania, Self-pollution, Woody Allen | 1 Comment

Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (3)

Posted on November 11, 2020 by fluff35

Science isn’t neutral: it’s produced and read in particular social contexts Continue reading →

Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith | Tagged biology, blood, gender, menstruation | 1 Comment

LLF and IICSA, revisited (updated 20 November 2020)

Posted on November 10, 2020 by fluff35

Back in October, I blogged for Via Media on the lack of connection between Living in Love and Faith (just published) and IICSA (published in October). I called for the Church of England to ‘connect the dots’: to recognise that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith, Safeguarding | Tagged IICSA, LLF, Safeguarding | 1 Comment

Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (2)

Posted on November 10, 2020 by fluff35

What is the clitoris and what is it for? Continue reading →

Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith | Tagged clitoridectomy, clitoris, Isaac Baker Brown, Jane Sharp, orgasm, pleasure | 1 Comment

Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (1)

Posted on November 9, 2020 by fluff35

What wasn’t included in Living in Love and Faith Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations | Tagged Aretino, classical reception, history, Ovid, Philaenis, pornography | 5 Comments

Waiting for publication: the week before Living in Love and Faith

Posted on November 3, 2020 by fluff35

What was it like being part of Living in Love and Faith? And what is it like waiting for the final publication? Continue reading →

Posted in Episcopal Teaching Document, Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations | Tagged celibacy, General Synod, history, Living in Love and Faith | 2 Comments

Stopping: and starting?

Posted on April 30, 2020 by fluff35

After several years in which it has played a major part in my life, as of 29 April the ‘Living in Love and Faith process’ (LLF) has now officially been put on hold. Those of us on the various working … Continue reading →

Posted in Episcopal Teaching Document, Living in Love and Faith | Tagged abuse, coronavirus, COVID-19, General Synod, homosexuality, marriage, ordination, selection, sexuality | 2 Comments

Bishops to show us the way

Posted on February 7, 2020 by fluff35

Today, the story trending on Twitter is that Phillip Schofield has come out as gay, at the age of 57. He has spoken movingly and passionately about the damage that concealment was doing to him and said that ‘all you … Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations | Tagged Brexit, Flanders and Swann, homosexuality, House of Bishops, hypocrisy, Issues in Human Sexuality, LLF, outing, pastoral, Phillip Schofield | Leave a comment

How not to be pastoral: the bishops’ new statement on civil partnerships

Posted on January 25, 2020 by fluff35

Once again, it’s all about sex. Whatever we mean by that. A recent article in The Independent headlined The sex-obsessed Church of England is digging its own grave included the comment that the Church is ‘intent not just on digging its own … Continue reading →

Posted in Living in Love and Faith | Tagged civil partnership, House of Bishops, procreation, Sexual abuse, sexuality | 3 Comments