Colin Coward
Changing Attitude, Human Connection and ...

There is something missing in the public conversation about human connection and community identified by Catharine Viner in a recent Guardian article. I observe that human connection and community are also missing in the Church of England. Discovering this essence would be a valuable outcome of changing attitudes, helping people develop lives well-lived and enriching all our lives, engaging with unadulterated love and living life in all its fulness.

Changing Attitude, Human Connection and Community and Unadulterated Love

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To achieve the full inclusion in Anglican life and ministry of married LGBTQI+ people

To achieve the full inclusion in Anglican life and ministry of married LGBTQI+ people

I have been feeling in a precarious position since I posted the blog last Friday about finding the WhatsApp Southwark Affirming Clergy. The blog has had over 1,600 hits. I have been taking my time, as I always do, to process practically, emotionally, intuitively and spiritually, what has happened, what I have done, and what I am learning, over the last five days. What I haven’t had since I retired eleven years ago is an organisational, structural, a campaigning home. With OBOFs demise, I urgently want to be part of a campaign movement that no longer exists.

The necessity for radical LGBTIQ+ activism in the Church of England

The necessity for radical LGBTIQ+ activism in the Church of England

As I read an article in the Guardian yesterday about Kehinde Andrews, the UK’s first Black studies professor, I wondered what effect it would have, in the context of the Living in Love and Faith process, if I replaced all the references to black with LGBTIQ+. Here is a very abbreviated version of the article. What effect does this have on you?