This blog post was originally published in via media.news on 15th November 2024. Via Media News is an Anglican news site whose strapline is Rediscovering the Middle Ground. My post was written in response to the publication of the Makin Report on the serial abuser, John Smyth, who died in 2018. His activities were never …
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Sexuality and Intimacy: are we thinking straight?
Yesterday I went to a lecture-workshop led by Professor Traugott Roser , Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Munster. It was entitled, "Sexuality and Intimacy in a time of severe illness and death". The lecture at the beginning told us about research conducted with a cohort of terminally ill patients and their spouses …
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Sex, hypocrisy and the body.
This is a reply to Neil Patterson's blog on Via Media News: https://viamedia.news/2018/09/14/sex-lies-voting-records/ Dear Neil, Thank you for your Via Media contribution. You rightly identify some dishonesties amongst gay men that greatly hinder a grown-up discussion about sex and sexuality. But it is not a gay male problem only, as you rightly hint. I want …
Honest to God: responding to James Alison and Richard Peers
James Alison: http://jamesalison.co.uk/texts/were-in-for-a-rough-ride/ Richard Peers: https://educationpriest.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/sex-lies-and-honesty-in-the-church-an-anglican-response-to-james-alison/ I don't think that a single day goes by when I am not genuinely thankful for the way God has led, guided and kept me in my life. Being very much on the downward slope I hope that I can continue to offer myself as I am for God's …
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Shared Conversations – Talking in Circles
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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