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
On 20 March Jayne Ozanne sent a letter to the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, who is Chair of the LLF Next Steps Group. The next day Jayne publicly tweeted a summary of the letter and a scanned image of it. The Equal Campaign welcomes Jayne’s letter and …
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by William Lamb The Revd Dr William Lamb is Vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. In this article, first published in ViaMedia.news, he calls for the Church of England and its bishops to show courage, stop …
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UPDATE: Same-sex Marriage List Campaign Action This Action, to build a list of serving clergy in the C of E who would be willing to solemnize the marriages of same-sex couples in church when it’s legal to do so, has now reached a critical stage. Earlier this month (October 2022), the number of verified clergy who …
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by Charlie Bell The Revd Dr Charlie Bell is a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and curate at St John the Divine, Kennington. In this article, first published in ViaMedia.news, he calls for a willingness to recognise one another’s integrities, respect the consciences of those with whom we disagree, and work together to find compromise. …
The Methodist Church has moved a step closer to recognizing gay marriages in a new Report entitled ‘God in Love Unites Us‘, and which was drawn up by the Methodist Church’s Marriage and Relationships Task Group. The Report comes at the end of a long process of reflection and study, and it will be put …
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Various news sites are reporting that four more priests in the Anglican Church of Nigeria have been dismissed for ‘homosexual practices’. Their dismissal and defrocking follows similar actions against two other priests less than two weeks ago. News of the action has been reported by the Episcopal Café and others. The Church of Nigeria has long …
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by Jonathan Tallon The following is the first in a series of articles commissioned by the Ozanne Foundation on theological and biblical reflection on issues on human sexuality. We reproduce them with permission from the Ozanne Foundation. The original series, and other interesting pieces, can be found here. The Revd Dr Jonathan Tallon is a …
Fr Andrew was interviewed by the Guardian recently about his new post at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, the work of the Campaign and the challenges to the Church of England in its current attitudes to gay people and our relationships. You can read the article here and the full text of the article is …
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by Lorraine Cavanagh The Revd Dr Lorraine Cavanagh is an Anglican priest in the Church in Wales. She has published a number of books, among them Making Sense of God’s Love: Atonement and Redemption which was one of the first in the Modern Church Series ‘Making Sense of Christianity’ (SPCK). Dr Cavanagh has written the first of a …
We have officially launched our Campaign with an advert in the Church Times on the fifth anniversary of the wedding of Canon Jeremy Pemberton and Laurence Cunnington. Our aim is simple – to see the Church of England welcome gay and lesbian couples to celebrate their marriages in Church of England Churches, nothing more, and …
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