LGBTI Christian theological resources
A challenge was issued on the Changing Attitude Facebook group – where is the Christian theology that presents authoritative teaching from a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...
View ArticleThe Reformation Project: Advancing the kingdom, advancing equality
Matthew Vines loves God and happens to be gay. When reality won out during his sophomore year and he finally admitted to himself that he was gay, he was both relieved and crushed — relieved because...
View ArticleCritiques of “Men and Women in Marriage”
The Faith and Order Commission which is responsible for the report Men and Women in Marriage is composed of 12 men and 3 women. There are 5 bishops, 8 priests and 2 lay people. Two of the bishops are...
View ArticleMen and Women in Marriage report and our dysfunctional, secretive,...
The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines said at a deanery clergy meeting today that most bishops were completely unaware that the Men and Women in Marriage report was being released. He found...
View ArticleEqual marriage, creation, evolution and the new paradigm
We, individual human beings, on different continents, in different cultures and in various communities of faith, are living with dramatically different paradigms, worldviews and attitudes towards the...
View ArticleWill Pilling and the House of Bishops engage with the full spectrum of...
Theology “must engage with our affective side, the emotions and feelings that arise from the experiences of exclusion and discrimination.” This statement comes from a review of a new book, Black...
View ArticleAn evolutionary worldview
Some years ago I came to realise what was perhaps already obvious to others – that I am a contemplative activist. Last weekend it further dawned on me that I am a contemplative activist evolutionary....
View ArticleExplain the theological and scriptural arguments for homosexuality being...
This challenging question started a new thread recently on the Changing Attitude Facebook page. The person who asked the question said: “I’m fairly new to Christianity, so I lack a great knowledge of...
View ArticleThe Gospels of Conditional and Unconditional Love
I stayed in Cambridge last week with a gay priest friend who recommended Jeremy Young’s book The Cost of Certainty: How religious conviction betrays the human psyche (2004, DLT, ISBN 0232525803). My...
View ArticleThe Pilling Report Reviewed No 9: Trying to fill the theological gap
I’ve reached the final section of ‘Summarizing the Evidence’, Part 2 of the Pilling Report which is entitled Perspectives from two theologians We are told that the presentations to the working party by...
View ArticleFifteen theological arguments for gay marriage
The UK Government has announcement that proposed legislation to permit same-sex marriage will include permission for churches and religious denominations to conduct same-sex weddings. Changing Attitude...
View ArticleThe Government locks prejudice and discrimination into the Church of England
The good news contained in yesterday’s announcement of the Government’s plan for equal marriage – that lesbian and gay couples will be able to get married, in both civil and religious ceremonies – was...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve 2012 and dreams for 2013
I decided it would be a good idea to use the post-Christmas Day period to reflect on the year that’s ending and look ahead to what 2013 may bring and what Changing Attitude might like to bring to 2013....
View ArticleThought For The Day by Giles Fraser
BBC Radio 4, Monday 4 March This morning the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland is waking up to one of the biggest crises in its modern history. A few weeks ago, Cardinal Keith O’Brien was expecting to...
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