FormerlyGay has picked up on a news story in California: California’s highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays and lesbians, ruling that state law prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination …

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Susan Russell, Chair of Integrity got invited yesterday to write for the Guardian. Unfortunately, her piece is full of contradictions and false assumptions. As the Lambeth conference proceeds in Canterbury, gay and lesbian Anglicans find themselves, once again, on the …

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Last month, against a huge backlash from the GLBT lobby, I supported the right of Iris Robinson, wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland to make certain remarks about homosexuality. At the time I wrote the following: This is …

Iris Robinson says one thing too far… Read more »

As I’m sure you’re all aware, over two months ago Rowan Williams wrote to Gene Robinson, refusing to grant him the right to preach or preside at the Eucharist whilst he was over here in Blighty during the Lambeth Conference. …

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Mark Yarhouse’s new blog on Christianity and Psychology, Limning the Psyche, (which I think means "Illuminating the Psyche", though Limning sounds much cooler) has an interesting post publicising the new Journal on Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. The inaugural issue …

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I’ve held off on blogging on some recent news stories partly because I’ve been far too busy the backend of last week and this weekend and partly because I’ve been reflecting on the strange coherence of seemingly disparate events of …

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