“LIVING IN LOVE AND FAITH”: Tree or Billboard?
by Stephen Noll, Contending Anglican:
A colleague sent me a link to the “Living in Love and Faith” report to the General Synod of the Church of England, which is meeting later this month. For the uninitiated, the “Living in Love and Faith” (LLF) project is a massive exercise by the Church of England to tackle the thorny issue of human sexuality. The general supposition is that the LLF results will be forwarded to the Lambeth Conference in 2020, to be discussed in table groups (indaba), which in turn will conclude that Anglicans have a mixed bag of views on sex and marriage and that they have agreed to disagree. Such a result will in effect nullify the clear teaching of Lambeth 1998, which has been a touchstone for the Global South churches.
Knowing my habit of “fisking” documents, this colleague asked me if I would have a go at this one. Having slogged my way through, I politely decline. Far be it from me to tell the General Synod what to do. Farther still from teaching the English how to speak. But I will call on a couple Englishmen to support this contention: if this Report is representative of the quality of writing and thinking that we can expect from its contributors, it will go down as a memorial to the unbearable lightness of being Anglican.
Here is one sample page (of fourteen) from the Report:
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