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Category Archives: Living in Love and Faith
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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Waiting for publication: the week before Living in Love and Faith
What was it like being part of Living in Love and Faith? And what is it like waiting for the final publication? Continue reading
Stopping: and starting?
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
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Bishops to show us the way
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
How not to be pastoral: the bishops’ new statement on civil partnerships
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
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Fight the good fight(s): the ordination of women and the human sexuality debate
I was struck recently by how all the celebratory pieces I was reading about the 25th anniversary of women priests were written from the point of view of those women whose vocations to priesthood were doubted (for many centuries) but … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged embodiment, equality, laity, menstruation, ordination, WATCH, women, women priests
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Intersex in history
The risk of saying anything about people with VSC is that, not being one of them, I may have no right to comment. But I’m a historian, and there’s a history here, and perhaps my role is to inform people of that. Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged Alice Domurat Dreger, binaries, chromosomes, clitoris, DSD, eunuch, gonads, hermaphrodite, hormones, intersex, John Money, penis, Philip, VSC
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The indecent Virgin
Systematic theology versus gigantic vulvas and a disruptive Virgin who is more than just her skirts Continue reading
Challenging experience
Do I know how many buttons my coat has? Continue reading
Posted in Episcopal Teaching Document, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged change, evidence
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