Twenty years ago, I queued for six hours in Johannesburg to vote in South Africa’s first democratic election. Today, I got that time down to three and a half hours, in London. When I was there, the queue was standing…
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Mandela: “Freedom Is a Process, Not an Event”
I’ll be heading up to London this morning, to cast my vote in South Africa’s May 7th election - the 20th anniversary of our first democratic election, in 1994. (Saffers abroad get to vote seven days early, so that our…
A “Third Way” on Catholic Teaching and Homosexuality
A reader has just asked, by way of a comment to an earlier post, “Have just seen this film about Catholicism and homosexuality-what do you think? http://vimeo.com/m/93079367 “ I had come across the same video earlier today, by way of a…
Fear of the Light
(Found on facebook).
N Carolina Church Challenges Gay Marriage Ban
Among the many legal challenges to gay marriage bans now being filed in a series of US states, one just filed in North Carolina on behalf of the United Church of Christ and a group of clergy argues that the…
“God and the Gay Christian”: WHY Religious Conservatives Are Running Scared.
In my previous post, I noted the furious and frenzied response by some conservative Christians to Matthew Vines’ “God and the Gay Christian”, suggested that the reason for the extraordinary strength of this reaction was that they are “running scared”.…
Texas Judge: Gay Divorce Now Legal.
One anomaly of the state variations in American marriage laws, is that couples who marry in one state where same - sex marriage is recognised, and then move to another where it is banned, is that when things go pear…
“God and the Gay Christian”: Religious Conservatives Are Running Scared.
Within days of its publication, Matthew Vines’ “God and the Gay Christian” has evoked a flurry of angry denunciation from a wide range of Christian bloggers and scholars, with news headlines like “Pro-gay book ‘exceedingly dangerous’”, “Pro-gay book departs from…
“Embodied Ministry” Conference 2014: Speakers
Speakers and workshop leaders Adrian Thatcher, Redeeming Gender The churches have forgotten that, until the 17th century, the dominant understanding of sex and gender was of a single humanity, ‘man’, within which women were imperfect, malformed men. Later, a two-sex…
A New British Bishop with the “Smell of the Sheep”
Pope Francis made major headlines when he chose not to live in the Vatican palace, but in smaller rooms at……, to carry his own luggage, and to drive a battered used car. This is fully in keeping with the Gospels…
