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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Is Synod polarised?
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
No more delays: what the history of the remarriage of divorced people says to the LLF debate
(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
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage
Tagged Divorce, remarriage, sacrament, Structural differentiation
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Leaky Church
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
Suspicion and fear
In the latest document to come to Synod, any sense of joy, of celebration, of welcome, of blessing, has now disappeared. Continue reading
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage, preaching
Tagged blessing, fear, ordination of women, Pastoral Guidance, transparency
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Going to the stake: Living in Love and Faith as Synod approaches
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
The ‘saviour moment’?
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
Posted in General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage
Tagged Divorce, Kenneth Skelton, Prayers of Love and Faith
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Waiting for bishops
So, I was asked once again, ‘Where are things now on LLF and prayers of blessing for those in committed same-sex relationships, as voted for in the February Synod?’ I should say at the outset that there are very few … Continue reading
Posted in Living in Love and Faith
Tagged conservative, ecclesiology, House of Bishops, inclusive
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Two meetings down, one to go: Living with Difference
“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
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged House of Bishops, St Hugh's Conversations
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Being back in the room
(One UPDATE 8 September) As my friends know, I’m a fan of Hamilton, which has that great song about ‘being in the room where it happens’. While my previous post here, on the various dates leading up to the November … Continue reading
The autumn of Living in Love and Faith
(updated 18 August, 1 September, 28 October and 18 November) One of the issues in the Church of England at the moment is transparency, or rather the lack of it. As of this morning, the ‘LLF Journey’ page on the … Continue reading
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