Tag Archives: Prayers of Love and Faith

Farewell August: time for the Church of England to wake up?

Posted on August 29, 2024 by fluff35

I’ve never really understood ‘Church August’. ‘Church January’? ‘Church post-Easter’? Sure: the rhythm of the Christian calendar means that there are points when everyone needs some down time after a burst of particularly intense activity. But in August, for purely … Continue reading →

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Jesus is coming, look busy: onwards with Living in Love and Faith?

Posted on April 17, 2024 by fluff35

There used to be bumper stickers with the message, ‘Jesus is coming – look busy!’ Leaving aside the dodginess of that idea – and here I’d mention the Archbishop of York’s counter-argument, Do Nothing to Change Your Life: Discovering What Happens … Continue reading →

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Resets, settlement, commitments and explorations… A further update on LLF

Posted on January 29, 2024 by fluff35

So are we going forwards, or backwards? Wherever we are going, we won’t be there for at least another year. Continue reading →

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The ‘saviour moment’?

Posted on October 10, 2023 by fluff35

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 →

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The autumn of Living in Love and Faith

Posted on August 16, 2023 by fluff35

(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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