The Urbane Voice likely to capture the CofE
by Julian Mann, Virtueonline:
As GAFCON gathers in Jerusalem, a sermon on June 7th preached at a church in Clapham in south-west London would probably not be deemed worthy of an agenda item or even of much passing discussion. But actually it is highly significant in the battle for biblical orthodoxy in the Church of England.
For the sermon by the Revd Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square, entitled ‘Not until you give me your blessing’, aptly illustrates why the LGBTQI++ movement is so close to capturing the Church of England as well as the English alphabet.
Dr Wells was preaching at ‘the Service of Hope for LGBTI equality in the Church of England’ at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Clapham. He began with a bit of learned myth-busting about St Francis of Assisi’s Prayer of Peace. It was in fact written by a Frenchman in 1912, the relevance of which, according to Dr Wells, is that ‘like the Prayer of St Francis, the connection between the blessing of same-sex unions and the controversy that surrounds them sometimes gets lost in sweeping assumptions and half-remembered history’.
He then posed a series of questions about the contemporary state of marriage in UK society:
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