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Tag Archives: sexuality
Living in Love and Faith: the final documents?
Yesterday, without much of a fanfare, some more documents were published to add to the ‘LLF book’, and the course, and the videos, and the podcasts, and the papers only accessible through registering with the ‘Hub’. We’d been expecting two … Continue reading
Alliterative Anglicans: see what I did there?*
real life isn’t alliterative or rhyming: so why do we act like it is? Continue reading
Bake a cake for Living in Love and Faith: how to make your response count
15 January 2022 (minor updates subsequently) The story so far: this blog began as a reflection on participating in the Shared Conversations, and then – because I was asked to join Living in Love and Faith’s History thematic group – … Continue reading
General Synod: feeling the weight of the Church of England
This is the established Church. Its weight is still crushing people. Continue reading
Handing on the baton? Part 1
Radical new Christian inclusion; but who are ‘we’? 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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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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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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Getting into a muddle about sex: lifelong virginity and the Louden amendment
For various reasons, I’ve been going through some of the papers I kept from my stint on General Synod; eight complicated years which included the Higton debate, the AIDS debate, and the various stages of the legislation to permit women … Continue reading
Posted in Shared Conversations
Tagged Church Fathers, clitoris, erotic, General Synod, homosexuality, Jubilee Group, Rowan Williams, sexuality, Tony Higton, virginity
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Sharing the knowledge
Can we see each other for who we are? And can we stay together without descending into chaos? Continue reading
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