November Revolution – Parliament asks the Church to resolve the women bishops...
Changing Attitude is, of course, following with intense interest the continuing fall-out over the House of Laity’s failure to gain the required two-thirds majority in Synod. We follow with interest for...
View ArticleIs Justin Welby going to be a gay-positive or gay-negative Archbishop?
It’s difficult not to respond after reading a headline in today’s Telegraph which says “New Archbishop of Canterbury challenges David Cameron on gay marriage.” However, reading the report by Steven...
View ArticleArchbishop of Canterbury claims to support strengthening gay relationships...
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, was interviewed on LBC 97.3 by Iain Dale who who is in a civil partnership and supports same-sex marriage. Ian asked the Archbishop: “You said once that you’re...
View ArticleLike the wideness of the sea – a prophetic vision of women and LGB&T people...
I read Maggi Dawn’s recently published book Like the Wideness of the Sea: Women bishops and the Church of England at the weekend. Last week I read Sarah Maxwell’s Transcendent Vocation: Why gay clergy...
View ArticleJustin Welby speaks of stunning quality of gay relationships
Justin Welby gave an interview to the BBC which was broadcast on the Today programme this morning, the day he is to be enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. The new...
View ArticleArchbishop of Canterbury offers to meet Peter Tatchell
The Times reports today that Archbishop Justin Welby has responded to Peter Tatchell’s open letter published yesterday and has offered to meet him. Archbishop Welby sent an email in which he thanked...
View ArticleChurch of England refuses to bless gay relationships – another nail in the...
The Church of England’s Faith and Order Commission has published a new report – Men and Women in Marriage. The Bishop of Coventry Dr Christopher Cocksworth, Chair of the Commission said yesterday,...
View ArticleIs Justin Welby’s evangelical faith ready to transform the Church and the...
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...
View ArticleLGB&T Anglican Coalition meeting with Archbishop Justin Welby
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...
View ArticleCreation or Evolution?
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...
View ArticleCanadian, American and African bishops meet for fourth Consultation
Eighteen bishops met in Cape Town, South Africa from 2 to 5 May for the fourth Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue. Michael Ingham of New Westminster, Canada and James Tengatenga of Southern...
View ArticleRomans 1 – a question for Justin Welby
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...
View ArticleThe Church of England, fear of change, and the True Self
“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...
View ArticleGay marriage – the Church of England’s Alice in Wonderland world
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What a mess the Archbishop of Canterbury is getting the Church into. Yesterday he spoke in the House of Lord’s opposing the government’s gay marriage bill. He issued several...
View ArticleChristianity in a time of revolution – Archbishop Justin’s presidential address
At the end of yesterday afternoon’s opening session of General Synod in York the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered his first presidential address. His theme was revolution. He began by thanking all...
View ArticleA health report on the C of E following the York Synod
I’m travelling home from York with time to reflect on the General Synod meeting. I have enjoyed many very good conversations with bishops, clergy and lay Synod members, other exhibitors and Synod staff...
View ArticleThe crisis for the C of E will only intensify
The Church of England is in crisis. In an article for the Observer yesterday Robert McCrum argued that its position on women bishops and gay marriage has alienated much of society. The failure to...
View ArticleTime to end homophobia and anti-gay prejudice in the Anglican Communion
The remarks made to journalists in Namirembe, Kampala, by Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, the Primate of the Church of Uganda, are predictably to the script of the Global South/GAFCON axis in the Anglican...
View ArticleCollege of Bishops to discuss the Pilling Report
An additional meeting of the College of Bishops is being held on 27 January to discuss the report Pilling Report, the outcome of a working party of the House of Bishops appointed 18 months ago. The...
View ArticleArchbishop of Canterbury says homophobia has to be eradicated from the Church
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke at the opening of the new headquarters of the Evangelical Alliance yesterday. The Telegraph and Guardian reported his extensive remarks about same-sex...
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