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This week in Living in Love and Faith: On the Alliance Campaign Manual
It’s been quite a week for Living in Love and Faith news. Yesterday, an update from the House of Bishops putting everything on hold. It was clear when the staff team for LLF was modified a few months back, with the new … Continue reading
Posted in General Synod, Living in Love and Faith
Tagged Alliance, CEEC, eucharist, House of Bishops, liturgy, ordination, Prayers of Love and Faith, training
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Implementation? Another week, another Living in Love and Faith statement
With my history, both with the production of the LLF resources and then on one of the earlier LLF Working Groups, I probably know as much about the history of LLF as anyone. But I still find out that there is information I had missed.
That was the case again today. Continue reading
Ceasefire?
Is a ‘pause’ what the Living in Love and Faith process needs now? Continue reading
Posted in equal marriage, General Synod, Living in Love and Faith, Shared Conversations
Tagged Bible, General Synod, homosexuality, ordination, sexuality, war
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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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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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Nothing new here: how the human sexuality debate repeats the women priests debate
Should a sheep among wolves wear her wolfskin coat? Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged General Synod, Guildford, history, ordination, sexuality, women
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No tongues?
It can be a difficult experience to attend a major Christian celebration at a point when the church is reeling from yet another scandal. Last week, the Gibb report into the disgusting behaviour of Bishop Peter Ball was issued, complete … Continue reading
Posted in Church of England and gender
Tagged abuse, cathedral, club, Dean, Gibb report, godly life, kiss, litany, Michael Ball, ordination, Peter Ball, sermon, St Paul, tribes
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Glad to be lay
… it was rather like asking me ‘Do you feel a vocation to be a rock?’ Continue reading
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Tagged bishop, Diocesan Synod, gender, ordination, selection, Shared Conversations, St Michael's House protocols
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