Category - Homosexuality

Cliff Richard sticks up for gay relationships

staff writers — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:15:52 +0100

Leading evangelical Christian celebrity Sir Cliff Richard, who is now aged 67, thinks the church should be supportive of committed gay relationships and says he is sick of intrusive speculation about his own sexuality.

Anglicans can 'win' by not fighting

agency reporter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:45:01 +0100

Author and evangelical thinker Brian McLaren wants to shift the argument within Christianity away from "culture wars" and towards a rediscovery of the Gosple message free of the overbearing impact of Christendom culture.

Mugabe condemns Williams and sides with anti-gay Anglicans

staff writers — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:17 +0100

In a campaign comment ahead of today's election in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has condemned Archbishop Rowan Williams as lacking a "moral compass" and said that gays in the church are a sign of "moral degeneracy".

Evangelical leader criticises failure to condemn violence against gays

staff writers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:18:50 +0100

The head of the Church Army, a leading Anglican mission agency with a significant evangelical constituency, has expressed his distress at the failure of two Anglican archbishops to clearly condemn violence against gay people.

Listening and learning in the sexuality debate

Savi Hensman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:15:38 +0000

As part of the 'listening process' in the Anglican Communion over the extensive disagreements about human sexuality, Ekklesia associate Savitri Hensman has prepared a paper on Learning, Listening, Scripture and Sexuality which seeks both to take the conversation forward and to affirm the role of lesbian and gay Christians as active and baptised members in the church, in accordance with a faithful and interpretatively sensitive reading of its the texts and tradition.

Savi Hensman

Fulcrum Conference Islington: Conflict and Covenant

Jordan Tchilingirian — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:43 +0000

Start: 12/04/2008 - 10:00

End: 12/04/2008 - 16:00

Conference Speakers:

Dr Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham (Member of the Lambeth Commission which prepared The Windsor Report)

Leading Evangelical bishop calls for fresh approach to sexuality row

staff writers — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:35:29 +0000

Bishop of Liverpool James Jones has called for a change of heart among Evangelicals in the bitter argument about sexuality, Scripture and authority. But he has not fully sanctioned same-sex relations, as some media reports have suggested.

United Methodist court recognises transgender pastor's appointment

staff writers — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:42:53 +0000

The US United Methodist Church's legislative body has upheld a bishop's decision that a pastor who changed gender from female to male remains eligible to serve the church, in a move welcomed by those supporting transgender persons.

Anti-gay stance distances church from the young

Tim Nafziger — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:58:39 +0100

For many years now, high profile Christian leaders have been saying that homosexuality is destroying the church, says Tim Nafziger. It turns out that it may be their homophobia that is isolating the church from young people and many others.

The church outs itself on homosexuality

Martin Reynolds — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:05:25 +0100

The outing of Vatican high-flier Monsignor Tommaso Stenico in a secretly filmed TV sting offers a real insight into the struggle the Roman Catholic Church is having in its home country over homosexuality.