General Synod: disagreement about sexuality, Scripture and mission

Jun 29, 2016 by

Newest items at the top:

Synod members write to Bishops on Sexuality issue, from CEN

32 Synod delegates publicly express “lack of confidence” in C of E Shared Conversations process. Anglican Mainstream report.

“Into the darkness of error”: Martin Davie reviews recent ‘pro-change’ books

Amazing Love? A review article by Peter Sanlon, Church Society Blog

Teetering on the brink: Shared convulsions at Synods from Christian Concern

Synod members thanked for staying on to talk about their differences, by Madeleine Davies, Church Times

Synod’s Shared Conversations, by Ian Paul, Psephizo

Anglican divisions harden despite talk of unity, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream

Statement following conclusion of Shared Conversations Process from Church of England website

‘Go in confidence,’ Justin Welby tells Synod after sexuality conversations by Mark Woods, Christian Today

LGBTI Mission calls on Church of England to move forward following completion of Shared Conversations

Archbishop of York urges synod as sexuality talks begin: ‘Help anyone who has been hurt’ by Harry Farley, Christian Today

C of E hardliners to boycott synod talks on same-sex relationships by Harriet Sherwood, Guardian

‘Facilitated Conversations’ and the Great Commandment of ‘Openness’ by Jules Gomes, Virtueonline

Journeys in, or moving away from, Grace and Truth? by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream

Shared Conversations: Can the Church of England prevent a split over gay marriage? by Harry Farley, Christian Today

Battle looms in the Church of England over ‘blessings’ for gay marriage by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today

The ‘sincere’ schism: Church of England’s etiquette guide for gay marriage rows by John Bingham, Telegraph

July General Synod programme published

Church of England aims to agree to disagree over homosexuality, by Andrew Brown, Guardian [Synod Shared Conversations preview].

Church of England split over gay marriage may be unavoidable, admits Welby’s chief of staff, by Harry Farley, Christian Today

A group of leading ‘affirming’ evangelicals support change in the Church’s teaching in a new book

Leading evangelical Bishops call for church to change on gays, by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today

C of E Bishop: “Re-think traditional view of marriage”, from Christian Institute

How do we journey in grace and truth? By Tom Creedy, a review of the Jayne Ozanne-edited book, posted on Psephizo (worth reading also for the debate in the ‘Comments’)

Why the arguments for a ‘third way’ do not work, by Martin Davie

Pro-gay evangelicals? By Gerald McDermott, Patheos

A debate about our life as a church by Julian Henderson, Bishop of Blackburn, Church of England Newspaper [Bishop Julian gives three clear reasons why he OPPOSES the ‘affirming evangelical’ position].

Evangelicals in the Church of England urge ‘biblical’ view on sexuality, by Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today [Reports on a not-yet-public paper by the Evangelical Group on General Synod, arguing that the C of E should NOT change its doctrines of sex and marriage].

Another book arguing for celebration of same sex relationships in church is published

Amazing Love – new book published, by Simon Sarmiento, Thinking Anglicans

New books say that taking a hard line on sexuality will damage mission, by Madeleine Davies, Church Times

“Into the darkness of error”: Martin Davie reviews recent ‘pro-change’ books

Amazing Love? A review article by Peter Sanlon, Church Society Blog

Recent evangelical responses to revisionist teaching:

A debate about our life as a church, by Bishop Julian Henderson CEN

A Leading Anglican theologian exposes the ‘third way’ myth by Charles Raven, Anglican Ink

Did Jesus heal the Centurion’s gay lover? By Ian Paul, Psephizo [a response to revisionist teaching by Jeffrey John in Liverpool Cathedral].

Sorry, but we won’t re-write the Bible, by Michael Brown, Charisma News

Church of England and Church of Scotland face splits: no lessons learned from TEC, by David Virtue, VirtueOnline

Official C of E document giving theological reasons for the “Shared Conversation” project is published

Disagreeing over disagreement: A response to the Faith and Order Commission report ‘Communion and Disagreement’, by Martin Davie, Reflections of an Anglican Theologian

Pastoral care or accommodation? by Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden, CEN

Where do we find Anglican Communion? By Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream [a survey of examples of recent calls for change in the C of E’s ethical teaching, contrasted with examples of mission work in Africa]

Click here for a list of articles on the Shared Conversations from earlier in the year and from last year

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