Peter Ould on August 8th, 2008

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Peter Ould on August 3rd, 2008

Thought it would be interesting to analyse where the final reflections document differs from the fourth draft.

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Fourth Draft
Final Document

This section should have been titled “The Bishop and Homosexuality” because it was quickly apparent the whole spectrum of human [...]

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Peter Ould on August 2nd, 2008

The fourth draft of the Lambeth Reflections document has been issued. This is the section on human sexuality. Comments are welcomed.

Section H: Human Sexuality
90. This section should have been titled “The Bishop and Homosexuality” because it was quickly apparent the whole spectrum of human sexuality, including issues of marriage and family, was not going to [...]

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Peter Ould on July 22nd, 2008

Last month, against a huge backlash from the GLBT lobby, I supported the right of Iris Robinson, wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland to make certain remarks about homosexuality. At the time I wrote the following:

This is the problem that is now facing Christians. If we continue to hold to our antiquated views, [...]

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Peter Ould on July 2nd, 2008

For a few weeks I’ve had a copy of the book to the right sat on my desk. it was sent to me as a review copy and I’ve been slowly going through it, a bit every day, time allowing. I’ve finally come to the end of reading it and have a simple, clear thing [...]

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Peter Ould on May 20th, 2008

I’ve known Noé for a number of years, and this recent piece of his on exgaywatch.com has some really important points about the future direction of ministry amongst LGBT. Noé’s site is Deep Blue Fusion and is well worth checking out.

Ex-gay ministries depend on certain adversarial elements to inspire the commitment of their members. Although [...]

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