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 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 …
Continue reading “Equal Marriage – the key to the (quadruple) lock”
by Elaine Ambrose Elaine Ambrose is a member of the Church of England in London; she has studied at The London Bible College and Heythrop College, and her PhD studies were at King’s College London. She writes on the challenge to Christian theology of the marriages of same-sex couples. Her website can be found here …
Continue reading “Tears in God’s Wineskin: a theology of hospitality”
On 28 March 2014 the then Dean of Durham, Michael Sadgrove, wrote a blog post to celebrate equal marriage becoming law in England on that day when the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 came into force. You can read the post here. In this 2014 post he recognized that equal marriage was something new (in England) …
On 27 July 2017 Michael Sadgrove, who before he retired in 2015 was the Dean of Durham, wrote a blog post to commemorate the 50th anniversary (to the day) of the 1967 Act of Parliament that decriminalized homosexual activity between consenting male adults in private. You can read the full post here. What follows is …