Getting together with fifty or so other people, only a few of whom you already know, to talk about sex and religion for three days is, frankly, not something that any sane person would really want to do. We did it because the Church of England has decided the way forward over the issue of …
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about being part of a church
Janani Luwum, a sermon for Christ the King, Southwell Minster 24.11.13
One or two people have asked for an online text of today's sermon, so I am posting that here. I will try and use this as the site of some of my occasional writings - either blog postings per se - or as a place to put written material that arises for other contexts. Thanks …
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Staying Put – a blog from 2008
Sometimes I get twitchy and let myself get drawn into a flurry of speculation and exploration of jobs other than the one I am doing at the time. Now, it is a hard business to judge when it is right to be looking at other things to be doing, and it is certainly the case …
Two types of abuse
We were going to get the train and were the only people on the down escalator at Leicester Square. On the up escalator was a line of people. As we started down, we began to hear a man on the other side muttering "Queers". He looked at me as we passed, then started shouting repeatedly, …
Culture Wars and Christmas
I leaf through the blogs and websites most days, and I today I notice how women bishops and "gay marriage" are still stirring comment. I don't think there is going to be a ceasefire over Christmas. After what has been a dreadful year for the Church of England, with the census telling us of a …
Linkages
Lurking behind some of the commentary following Tuesday's rejection of the Measure allowing women to become bishops is a piece of linkage that needs examining. Some of the resistance to women in the episcopate was coloured (to put it no more strongly than that) by a fear that admitting that the people who hold up …
From The Quire 