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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Friday 30 September 2022 – tomorrow – four bishops from the ‘Next Steps’ group, plus Eeva John, will be meeting with representatives of eight progressive Church of England groups at Lambeth Palace, including Equal. Why historic? Amazingly, this is the first time C of E bishops have officially met with organizations working for the full …
Earlier today the message below was sent to all our Campaign Supporters. But there is no reason why others shouldn’t pray for the bishops as they gather, confer and pray about the future direction of the Church of England in the light of the results of the LLF consultation. In fact there is every reason …
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 …
New Campaign Action to inform the House of Bishops why we believe the Church must marry same-sex couples The Living in Love and Faith consultation is finishing on 30 April 2022. We have just under six weeks to call for change. Most of the ‘Next Steps’ group of bishops want some kind of change, but …
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by Helen King Helen King is Professor Emerita in Classical Studies at The Open University and was a member of the Living in Love and Faith project (part of the History Working Group). These two articles were originally published on Professor King’s sharedconversations blog in July and October 2021, and are reproduced here by kind …
What is Living in Love and Faith? ‘Living in Love and Faith‘, often abbreviated to LLF, is an official project of the Church of England, intended to provide resources for Christian teaching and learning about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage. The Church’s website includes an extensive section on LLF. Background On 27 January 2017 the …