Inclusive Church Try To Argue For Gay Blessings

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Richard Chartres Plays Very Hard Ball Indeed

Here’s the letter the Bishop of London sent to all London clergy, readers, church wardens and church wardens’ dachshunds today.

18th June 2008
Dear Friends,
Many of you will have seen the publicity over the weekend around the service which was held at St Bartholomew the Great on May 31st. I attach a letter I have [...]

Gay Wedding - What We Should Do Now

In my previous two posts I have examined the liturgy of the London Gay Union, showing that it is to all intents and purposes a mirror of the BCP Marriage Service, and looked at the theology of the liturgy and how it affects the doctrine of marriage of the Church of England. I now want [...]

Gay Wedding - The Theology

In my previous post I laid out the liturgy used in the gay wedding of two Church of England priests and compared it to the actual text of the BCP marriage service. In doing so I demonstrated that the argument that the service was not intended to mimic the BCP marriage service and therefore to [...]

Gay Wedding

This is the first of a series of post looking at the news this morning that a London Anglican Clergyman "married" two other male priests in a ceremony that mimicked marriage.
This post looks at the liturgy used in that service and compares it to a BCP marriage service to show that the explanation that this [...]

Church And State

I’ve held off on blogging on some recent news stories partly because I’ve been far too busy the backend of last week and this weekend and partly because I’ve been reflecting on the strange coherence of seemingly disparate events of the last seven days or so. Looking back over reports since I last blogged properly [...]

A Short History Of The Church Of England

Eddie Izzard nails it. Via Ruth, but posted by Joanna.

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Puppet Evangelism

This quite made my afternoon

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God, Gays And The Church - A Brief Review

A number of people both on and off this blog have asked me repeatedly what my opinion of the book "God, Gays and the Church" is? As you know, the book was published on Wednesday and includes the first public version of my testimony. What I want to do in this post then is divide [...]

Some Thoughts On The Covenant Debate

Yesterday I spent a large part of the day at General Synod including observing some of the debates. The last one of the day was on the response to the St Andrews Draft of the Covenant. As well as people spotting I made notes on the debate and want to spend just a few moments [...]

God, Gays And The Church

From Anglican Mainstream

Orthodox Anglicans make a new contribution to the homosexuality debate within the Church of England, by launching a book containing testimonies of Christians who once believed they had a homosexual orientation, but now live happy and fulfilled lives in line with Biblical sexual ethics. These are complemented by essays in the fields of [...]

Exclusive - St Albans On Rowan And Sharia

An excellent response from Christopher Herbert, the Bishop of St Albans.

To all Clergy and Lay Readers of the Diocese of St Albans
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Letter
You will have read or heard a number of comments made by the media and others following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture at the Temple Church on Civil and Religious [...]

Damian Thompson - Rowan Is Finished

Ouch!!

What will the Archbishop of Canterbury’s fatuous remarks about Sharia do to his authority as head of the Anglican Communion? Pretty well finish it off, I should think.

For years, African Anglicans have been threatening to blow the "Communion" to smithereens unless Rowan Williams follows their line on homosexuality. He has duly fallen in with their [...]

Is Rowan A Numpty?

*cough*
You all know what this is about don’t you? Yesterday, our esteemed Archbishop caused a teensy bit of controversy by suggesting that in some parts of the country we may inevitably have to accept some accomodation with Sharia, especially where the vast majority of subjects of the monarch in an area are Muslim. Hmmmmm….. There’s [...]

Church Growth For Dummies

Here it is!!! Hat-tip to far too many to mention.

Now, seriously, go and get this book. I’ve spent the past week or so devouring Bob Jackson’s "The Road to Growth". Though I’m not really a church strategic leadership kinds guy, this little tome speaks to my statistical heart. Can I heartily recommend all my UK [...]

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