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
Quick link to audio – well worth listening to! Danny Beard is a British drag performer and singer who won the 2022 season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’. This 14-minute podcast is the second episode of a four-part series published on BBC Sounds. In this episode, entitled ‘Love and God‘, Danny meets Charlie and Aly …
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Fr Alex Frost is the Vicar of St Matthew The Apostle with Holy Trinity (St Matthew’s for short), Burnley, an active and inclusive church. Fr Alex is also a prolific podcaster as host of ‘The God Cast’, interviewing all sorts of people “from bishops to nuns, comedians to celebrities, footballers to followers”. The Revd Dr Charlie …
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Recently Channel 4 has created a series of short video documentaries under the title of ‘Love Against The Odds‘. Overcoming prejudice, trauma, struggles and misunderstanding, these relationships show that even when the odds are stacked against them, love can conquer all. The documentaries are available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiC_gpE7y050ubK3hWmMNgWyBxhrdwrOP. In one of these Channel 4 …
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Here are some of the best speeches at General Synod last week by progressive and inclusive speakers. They are all about 3 minutes long, as that was the limit throughout the debate. Enjoy! If you think we have missed out a good inclusive speech, which might well have happened inadvertently, please let us know using …
Quick link to audio – well worth listening to! Three Counties Radio (known as 3CR) is a BBC local radio station covering Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. On Sunday mornings it has a three-hour programme similar to the Radio 4 Sunday programme, hosted by Nighat Arif. This Sunday’s show (22 January 2023) focused on the Church …
In September 2022, with the publication of the results of the Living in Love and Faith consultation, LLF entered its final phase, ‘Discernment and Decision’. On 12–14 December 2022 the College of Bishops had the second of its series of meetings to discuss the way forward for the Church; at this meeting the bishops debated …
The Revd Dr Jonathan Tallon has written a series of articles on aspects of the Bible and homosexuality, with associated videos. Nothing unusual there, you might think – there must be hundreds if not thousands of such articles – but Jonathan Tallon’s are remarkably good, helpful, clear, and academically reliable; the Equal Campaign is delighted …
This is an excellent BBC programme about a young gay Christian couple, Grace and Jess, who are shortly to be married. Here’s the BBC description: “Christians Grace and Jess are engaged to be married and are about to move into their first home together: a canal boat. Saying goodbye to family, friends and the church …
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This short video, produced in April 2022, is our ‘creative response’ to the Church of England’s ‘Living in Love and Faith’ project; we are submitting it to the LLF ‘Next Steps’ group to help guide the bishops as they consider the way forward for the Church. Please feel free to share this video, on social …
On 12 February 2022 this superb radio programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is part of the series ‘Archive on 4’. God Knows I’m Gay is a must-listen programme for everyone who wants to understand the experiences and reflections of a now openly gay priest in the Church of England. Here is the …