The Campaign For Equal Marriage in the Church of England
working to allow all couples to marry in church, regardless of their sex or sexuality
by Charlie Bell This article was written in response to an article by Andrew Bunt in Premier Christianity magazine which opposed equal marriage. Premier accepted Charlie Bell’s offer to write a reply, but when they received it they said they were unable to publish it owing to ‘website issues’. It has since been published on …
by Savi Hensman Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. She is a writer and activist working in the voluntary sector, and is an associate of Ekklesia. This article was published in the Church of England Newspaper (CEN). Forty years after a Church of England report made the case for affirming …
by Savi Hensman Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. She is a writer and activist working in the voluntary sector. She is an associate of Ekklesia and has published a number of articles; her book Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Same-Sex Love and the Church was published in 2015. “Although same-sex marriage …
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by Michael Sadgrove The Very Revd Michael Sadgrove, who before his retirement was Dean of Durham, has long supported equal marriage in the Church. We are very grateful to him for writing this excellent article for the Equal Campaign, demonstrating that our case is ‘built on a solid theological and ethical foundation’. What is the …
by Sylvia Keesmaat This is an article from the Empire Mixed website. It is part of a series in response to the debate in the Anglican Church of Canada to changing its canons to open marriage to same-sex couples. It is part of the increasingly strong argument for looking again at the traditional ‘clobber’ texts, …
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by Christopher Brittain Christopher Brittain is the Dean of Divinity and Margaret E. Fleck Chair in Anglican Studies at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. The following is an article in which he examines the attempts of some leading evangelical theologians to address same-sex marriage and the rise of affirming theology and practice across …
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by Marcus Green The Revd Marcus Green is Rector of Steeple Aston, author of The Possibility of Difference and a member of the Living in Love and Faith project. He is an evangelical writer, and this is an interesting piece. For those of us not in the evangelical tradition it is a look into a …
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by Andrew Lightbown The Revd Andrew Lightbown is the Rector of the Winslow Benefice in the Diocese of Oxford. He writes regularly on issues such as leadership, economics, mental health, human sexuality and the nature of the church. For many years I have enjoyed watching Sunday evening dramas on television. We used to watch The …
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A fascinating article on translations and their influence on what the Church teaches and what Christians think. The word ‘homosexual’ wasn’t invented until 1869 (in German), and only entered into English translations of the Bible in 1946. This article traces how that happened, and questions why. Ed Oxford is a gay Christian, a graduate of …
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by Simon Taylor This excellent article by Simon Taylor, Canon Chancellor of Derby Cathedral, is taken from Modern Believing, the journal of Modern Church. Many of us are looking for strong arguments based firmly on Scripture and this is one of the best in an increasing field of research, study and argument. Highly recommended. The …
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