More from Andrew Goddard on the Bishops and Same-Sex Marriage. The challenges The statement and the responses to it highlight the near-impossible challenges now facing the church. These result from the new marriage law’s incompatibility with the church’s doctrine of …
News from the sticks that the Diocese can’t decide who their Bishop should be. [gview file=”https://www.peter-ould.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014.03.07-Press-Release.pdf”] My sources indicate to me that only two candidates were interviewed. Pete Broadbent has suggested there may be a simple explanation why no preferred …
Up on Fulcrum – it’s very good. The swiftest and strongest criticism of the statement was to its conclusion (para 27, in bold), that The House is not, therefore, willing for those who are in a same sex marriage to …
This morning the Guardian Komment Macht Frei published a piece by Giles Fraser quoting Bishop Alan Wilson on whether clergy can be charged under the Clergy Discipline Measure for entering a same-sex marriage. Its Section 7 lays down that matters …
Ad Clerum from Bishop Martin Warner. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Attached to this note is the text of the Letter and Statement from the House of Bishops on the introduction of same sex marriage that will happen at …
Mike Higton (new to me but really interesting) has written some very incisive stuff on what the House of Bishop’s statement on same-sex marrriage is actually about. The argument of the document (which, let me stress, is not my argument!) can, I think, be …