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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
Ghana, Anglicans and expediency:
Are LGBTQI+ Christians being sacrificed to keep the C of E pure enough for Lambeth?
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Handing on the baton? Part 1
Radical new Christian inclusion; but who are ‘we’? Continue reading
Rewriting your history: thinking about the Winchester case
What does the ‘stepping back’ of the Bishop of Winchester tell us about history and about power?
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Posted in Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations
Tagged autobiography, bishops, deacons, General Synod, history, testimony, Tim Dakin, Winchester
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Conversion therapy: faith without fear
Unusually today, I was up in time to listen to some pre-7 a.m. radio, so I heard the very rushed interview the Today programme was running on conversion therapy. Anyone who still doesn’t know what this ‘therapy’ entails can read the stories … Continue reading
Surviving Lockdown 3: a guest post
What’s it like living on your own at 86 in lockdown? Continue reading
Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (4)
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
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Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (3)
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
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LLF and IICSA, revisited (updated 20 November 2020)
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
Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (2)
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
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Deleted sex scenes from Living in Love and Faith (1)
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
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