Debate – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Drama Therapy at the Secret Synod

By Peter Ould Posted on July 7, 2013 Posted in Church of England, Therapy No Comments Tagged with Actors, Anglican Priest, Anglicans, Bishops, Chap, Core Issues, Counsellor, Debate, Detailed Description, Drama Group, Drama Therapy, Express, Feedback, Gay, General Synod, John Bingham, Kill Bill, Lot Like, Newspapers, People, Professional Association, Quentin Tarantino, Rituals, Sessions, Six Hours, Synod Members, Tarantino Film, Temerity, Tongue In Cheek

Yesterday’s General Synod session on Women Bishops was held in secret. Sorry, in private. Well, in secret. Well, the general public wasn’t allowed to watch certainly. You make your mind up. Anyway, one of the things that went on in …

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The Regenerus “Gay Parenting” Study

By Peter Ould Posted on June 22, 2012 Posted in Gay Parenting, Statistics 6 Comments Tagged with Advantage, Advocates, Age Of Majority, Biological Family, Bottom Line, Data Structures, Debate, Family Structures, Gay Parenting, Habit, Killer Blow, Maturity, Parents, Same Sex Relationship, Selection Bias, Statistician, Survey, Young Adults

I’m starting to get into the habit of leaving big blogging subjects alone for a week or so, partly so I can reflect on what I want to write and partly just because I don’t have the time these days …

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The Flawed Changing Attitude Sussex Survey Re-Emerges

By Peter Ould Posted on May 18, 2012 Posted in Church of England, Sexuality No Comments Tagged with Andrew Sullivan, Assumption, Assumptions, Attitude Survey, Category Titles, Charicatures, Church Leaders, Clergy, Conservative Churches, Debate, Gay Relationships, High Quality Scan, Marriage, Misunderstanding, New Survey, Options, Phrase, Production Values, Sussex, Transgendered

News comes to me from Chichester Diocese that the flawed Changing Attitude “Survey” that was issued last yearÂ has been reissued again. Apparently production values are not very high, with what is being described as “a photocopy of a photocopy” coming …

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Newsnight on the London Letter

By Peter Ould Posted on February 3, 2012 Posted in Church of England, Civil Partnerships, Media 2 Comments Tagged with Bible, Debate, Giles Fraser, Homosexuality, Jesus, London, New Statesman, Newsnight, Same Sex Relationships, Seven Days, Sociological Concerns, Spectator, Studio Guests, Theological Argument, Theological Arguments

You can watch it here for the next seven days if you have access to iPlayer. Do you know what the mostÂ disappointing part of this whole piece was? The way both studio guests completely failed to take us to the …

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PCUSA Debate Last Summer on Changing Ordination Standards

By Peter Ould Posted on May 13, 2011 Posted in Ordination, PCUSA, Sexuality, Theology 1 Comment Tagged with Debate, Insistence, Media1, Minority Report, Ordination Standards, Sexual Morality, Video Session

I’ve managed to track down the video of the PCUSA debate last summer on changing the ordination standards. Note the minority report and the constant insistence from its proposer that the changes being put forward remove any standards of sexual …

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Rick Warren on Uganda

By Peter Ould Posted on December 11, 2009 Posted in Sexuality, Uganda 15 Comments Tagged with Anglican, Debate, Lambeth, Rick Case, Rick Warren, Uganda, Youtube

In case you missed it, this is Warren’s excellent contribution to the Uganda debate. Everything that needed to be said (and, though he’s not an Anglican, utterly Lambeth ’98 1:10 compliant)

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