This morning members of the new Changing Attitude Kenya steering committee are travelling to Kirinyaga near Embu for an overnight meeting with Archbishop David Gitari at Philadelphia retreat centre. The twenty-four hour meeting has three goals: Demystifying the myths surrounding the existence of LGBTI people within the Anglican church by becoming visible and sharing personal [...]
About Colin Coward
The Revd Colin Coward, Director of Changing Attitude, is a priest and psychotherapist. He ministered for 19 years in inner-city parishes in the Diocese of Southwark. He now lives near Devizes, Wiltshire, and is actively involved in his local church.
Gay bishops – it’s the Church of England that’s in the dock
, May 7th, 2012 7 Comments
I’ve been spurred into further thought by comments on the previous post and a conversation I’m told took place on Facebook where a friend of mine was urged to stop me doing what I’m doing “before it goes too far.” The person doing the urging thinks the House of Bishops will wreak a terrible revenge on [...]
What type of gay priest is acceptable as a bishop in the Church of England?
, May 7th, 2012 39 Comments
Recent appointments to the House of Bishops raise a question for Changing Attitude. What type of gay priest is acceptable to be appointed as a bishop in our Church? There are clearly categories which are not acceptable and another category which is acceptable. The acceptable categories A priest who presents himself to the Church as [...]
The spectrum of human sexuality and the spectrum of prejudice
, May 2nd, 2012 2 Comments
If, instead of celebrating SS Philip and James yesterday you had continued with the lectionary readings from Exodus, you would have read about Moses coming down from Mount Sinai and discovering the Israelites dancing around the golden bull calf that had come out of the fire after Aaron had thrown the gold in – so he [...]
Anglicans losing battles and wars
, April 27th, 2012 Be the first to comment
I met Terence Weldon at the Cutting Edge Consortium Conference on Saturday. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Terence has lived in the UK since 2003. A Catholic, he is a regular and active participant in London’s ‘Soho Masses’. His web site, Queering the Church – towards a reality based theology, has evolved from his involvement [...]
The wisdom of Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ‘A History of Christianity’ might benefit FCA leaders and commentators
, April 26th, 2012 Be the first to comment
I’m reading and being inspired by Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ‘A History of Christianity’ at the moment. I’m not a historian and my grasp of Christian history is shaky and selective. MacCulloch is reminding me of why my faith formed in the way it did. Christian history is so complex and messy – well, we know that, [...]
A healthy, loving global Anglican Communion for the twenty first century
, April 24th, 2012 1 Comment
(Readers might like to refer to Archbishop Eliud Wabukala’s keynote address to the FCA Leaders Conference) The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Leaders Conference is meeting from 23 to 27 April at St Mark’s Battersea Rise, South London. St Mark’s is the next parish to St Barnabas Clapham Common where the Revd David Page was the [...]
The Church of England is a body contaminated by unchallenged prejudice
, April 23rd, 2012 9 Comments
Papers are reporting that Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury has been the victim of “naked racism”. Is there naked racism in the Church of England? I also was to ask, is there homophobia in the Church of England? The naked racism comment comes from the Reverend [...]
