Because I’m the Director of Changing Attitude, I’ve felt it necessary to be circumspect about revealing too much about my experience of God. I have been worried in the past that I would be pounced on and attacked by those fundamentalists who believe in a very literal God. In the US the literalists denounce people [...]
Colin Coward
Is the Church of England going to help people become who they truly are?
, May 23rd, 2013 6 Comments
Progress of equal marriage bill deepens challenge to the Church
, May 22nd, 2013 3 Comments
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was given a third reading in the House of Commons yesterday by 366 to 161, a majority of 205. On the Conservative benches 133 voted against the bill compared with 126 Tory MPs who voted in favour. A majority of Conservative MPs and DUP MPs from Northern Ireland feel [...]
The Church of England, fear of change, and the True Self
, May 21st, 2013 10 Comments
“Perhaps loss is the price we pay for being human, for being beautifully fragile. In order for us to be human, things must change, things will and must get lost; we have to lose them in order to have new life and new possibilities.” “In Jesus Christ, God embraces a human life and shows us [...]
Romans 1 – a question for Justin Welby
, May 21st, 2013 Be
I’m writing a blog about yesterday’s Equal Marriage debate in the House of Commons, but first, because it’s a key text for Christian conservatives and because it’s in the lectionary today, some thoughts about Romans 1. I wonder how often those who use Romans 1.26 – 27 as the key text in support of their [...]
LGB&T lives become a public battle ground once again
, May 20th, 2013 9 Comments
Being a gay man, a gay Christian and a gay Christian activist feel very uncomfortable identities this morning. Yet again, matters affecting my identity and my freedom to be the person God has created me to be are being fought over in public in the most intense way. Many of the arguments against making a [...]
We have a Gospel to proclaim!
, May 15th, 2013 2 Comments
“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 [...]
