As LGB Christians becomes more widely known we are receiving unsolicted true life accounts of how ordinary churchgoers are finding deeply embedded homophobia leads to threats, harassment, and expulsion. The most recent example, sent by ‘Elliot and Thomas’, a gay couple of 40 years, is an absolute disgrace and a flagrant example of discrimination and ...
Niles Posthumus interviews Richard Kirker and Revd Charlie Bączyk-Bell for Trouw, a Dutch newspaper about the latest stemate in a 60 year long battle for same-sex marriage/blessings. You can visit the original article (although there is a paywall) here: https://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/frustratie-bij-homoseksuele-anglicanen-hun-kerk-gaat-homostellen-toch-niet-inzegenen~b3495af5/ DOWNLOAD A PDF COPY OF THE ARTICLE – Dutch Newspaper Trouw March 2026 Dutch Newspaper ...
‘Authentic human dignity is achieved not by affirming every self-description as ontological truth, but by recognising each person’s worth within the reality of creation.’ An excellent letter in The Tablet taking issue with two vital points in their Editorial ‘New Guidance’ this week. Thank you Philomena Heffernan for helping enlighten readers with lucid clarity. Letter ...
LGB Christians’ Caroline Watson wrote to The Church Times in response to the article ‘Are trans and women’s rights opposed?’ by Paul Valley
The University’s LGBTQ+ Society’s Safe Churches Team has compiled a report on 30 churches in the city, categorising each on a five-point scale according to how inclusive it is judged to be and how honest the church leadership are about their stance.
This is the text of a speech Dr. Helen Joyce gave at Ireland Uncensored, a one-day conference in Dublin on September 16th to rally opposition to the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill, a new law that will impose more speech restrictions in Ireland than anywhere else in Europe. The ...
The semantic history of the term ‘cancelled’ isn’t difficult to trace. It was first used in its contemporary meaning as a line in the 1991 American crime thriller, New Jack City. It reached a wider audience with an episode of VH1’s popular reality show, Love and Hip-Hop: New York, which aired on 22 December 2014 ...
When the Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade this summer, Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion named several other cases he wants the high court to reconsider, including Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case that made same-sex marriage legal in every U.S. state.