Posts Tagged ‘homosexuality’
Lesbos
Soo…
The islanders of Lesbos have lost their legal attempt to disallow the use of the word “Lesbian” to refer to women-who-sleep-with-women.
Now, this might seem like a victory for common sense over and above the silly human-rights legal arguments that seem to abound these days. Apart from the fact that it does appear that homosexual women [...]
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Tags: homosexuality, human sexualty, lesbian, lesbianism, Lesbos
Why GAFCON matters
I was quite flippant about GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future CONference) in my last post. The thing is, while I acknowledge that this is something that will bore or bemuse the vast majority, I think it is actually a hugely significant event.
The BBC and the broadsheets certainly think so. Dave Walker, over at the church [...]
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Tags: anglican, anglican church, Anglican Communion, Christianity, Evangelical Christianity, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, homosexuality, Lambeth Conference, schism, Women Bishops, women in ministry
No-one else will care about this (it drew numerous blank looks when I was asked to explain it at the weekend), but GAFCON began today.
No, this isn’t come high tech conference dealing in the latest GPS-related gadgets or a superhero-fans get together: GAFCON is the Global Anglican Future CONference, a gathering of right-wing, ‘conservative’ clergy [...]
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Tags: anglican, Anglican Mainstream, Bishops, Comic-Con, controversy, faith, GAFCON, Global Anglican Future Conference, homosexuality, Lambeth Conference, Michael Nazir-Ali, Peter Akinola, Reform, Rowan Williams, split, Women Bishops
Negotiating Minefields
Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) has recently been tackling, with great sensitivity, the biggest minefield in contemporary, western Christianity: the issue of homosexuality.
There are three essays: the first is a commentary on the need for sensitive, loving communication; the second and third are responses to a specific commenter, on (loosely) whether orientation is God-given, and [...]
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Tags: controversy, Evangelical Christianity, faith, homosexuality, Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, sexuality
