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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Processing the process: LLF continues
After that lurch in the LLF process, once again, questions are raised about who is actually running things in the Church of England. Continue reading
Posted in General Synod, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged Faith and Order Commission, House of Bishops, William Nye
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Resets, settlement, commitments and explorations… A further update on LLF
So are we going forwards, or backwards? Wherever we are going, we won’t be there for at least another year. Continue reading
Keeping the church together?
Since I last posted here, some months have passed, but that doesn’t mean nothing has happened. We had the November Synod with hours more of ‘debate’ (which really meant people restating their positions yet again). Then, in December, after the … Continue reading
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, marriage
Tagged Alliance, Bible, CEEC, schism, separation
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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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