“God is an intelligible space whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. God is within all things, but not enclosed, outside all things, but not excluded, above all things but not aloof, below all things but not debased. God is supremely one and all-inclusive, God is therefore ‘all in all’” (1 Corinthians 15.28). [...]
Open our flesh, and we shall embody your presence
, April 29th, 2013 4 Comments
I think the Church has repeatedly mislaid the divine imperative revealed in the life and teaching, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the ministry of his apostle Paul. The early Church lost confidence in the energy released through the resurrection, absorbed by the need to respond with practical matters of survive and evolution. I [...]
Creation or Evolution?
, April 19th, 2013 14 Comments
I woke feeling excited this morning. I sat at 06.15 gazing through my east-facing window at a sensational sunrise, the sky ripped open to reveal azure blue through the ruptured clouds, as I ate muesli and drank leaf Darjeeling tea. The sunrise enhanced my excitement. I know from the various conversations I had yesterday, with [...]
Changing Attitude part of Coalition group meeting Archbishop Justin
, April 18th, 2013 4 Comments
The meeting of 6 members of the LGB&T Anglican Coalition at Lambeth Palace with with Archbishop Justin Welby was good and positive for the six of us representing the Coalition groups, if inevitably cautious and careful. It was a first meeting, an opportunity for the nine people present to talk briefly about ourselves and our [...]
Survey suggests church leaders at odds with opinion in the pews about equal marriage
, April 18th, 2013 7 Comments
The Telegraph reports the findings of a YouGov survey of more than 4,000 people, commissioned by the organisers of the Westminster Faith Debates. It finds that the faithful are just as likely to support same-sex marriage quietly as oppose it, despite vocal opposition from the leaders of almost all the major faith groups. When those [...]
LGB&T Anglican Coalition meeting with Archbishop Justin Welby
, April 17th, 2013 6 Comments
Six members of the LGB&T Anglican Coalition are meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace tomorrow, Thursday. I’m representing Changing Attitude. The other five, representing with me all 8 member groups of the Coalition are Tina Beardsley, Mike Dark, Jeremy Marks, Savi Hensman and Clare Herbert. The goal of the meeting, agreed between [...]
Men and Women in Marriage report and our dysfunctional, secretive, hypocritical Church
, April 16th, 2013 5 Comments
The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines said at a deanery clergy meeting today that most bishops were completely unaware that the Men and Women in Marriage report was being released. He found out that the report had been issued from a message on Twitter. Bishop Nick said the House of Bishops, Church [...]
Is Justin Welby’s evangelical faith ready to transform the Church and the experience of LGB&T Christians?
, April 16th, 2013 5 Comments
I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the all-glorious Father, may confer on you the spiritual gifts of wisdom and vision, with the knowledge of him that they bring. I pray that your inward eyes may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which he calls you, [...]
The Phenomenon of Man and the eruption of equal marriage
, April 12th, 2013 4 Comments
I’m reading Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man at the moment. I’ve been meaning to read it for over 40 years and have finally got around to it! He wrote the book in 1947 but it was published posthumously after his death in 1955. Rome refused to allow him to publish. In the [...]
Critiques of “Men and Women in Marriage”
, April 11th, 2013 2 Comments
The Faith and Order Commission which is responsible for the report Men and Women in Marriage is composed of 12 men and 3 women. There are 5 bishops, 8 priests and 2 lay people. Two of the bishops are positive about the place of LGB&T people in the church and so are at least four [...]
