New Year Resolutions for Inclusive Faith Paul Roberts. Paul is a Convenor with Inclusive Evangelicals. Until his recent retirement he lectured at Trinity College, Bristol, teaching Church History, Doctrine, Anglican Studies and Worship. Inclusive Evangelicals (IE) exists to be a place where evangelicals who affirm LGBT+ relationships can find somewhere where they can be themselves – avowedly evangelical and fully affirming. It was made necessary in part by the insertion of a

A New Year Resolution for Inclusive Faith   Rachel Humphrey is a Baptist minister, an organiser of Fruitful conferences and Two:23, and a convenor for Inclusive Evangelicals. ‘Fruitful’ is a charismatic worship gathering of LGBTQ+ and LGBTQ+ affirming evangelicals which is now going into its third year and growing as goes. (1)  We started it because we realised a large number of leaders in evangelical churches were exploring the inclusion of LGBT people, but were terrified

New Year Resolutions for Inclusive Faith David Runcorn - with Paul Roberts David and Paul are co-convenors of Inclusive Evangelicals Inclusive Evangelicals (IEs) celebrate the full equality, mutuality and partnership of women and men, created in God’s image. Although this is the official teaching of the Church of England it has yet to embrace it unambiguously and allows discrimination against women in its employment practices. Meanwhile, within the evangelical world, a teachi

A New Year resolution for Inclusive faith David Runcorn   David is a convenor of Inclusive Evangelicals and the author of Love means Love – same-sex relationships and the Bible. (SPCK)       The storyteller of the historic Samuel saga in the Old Testament uses a number of devices to drop hints and clues as to how events might unfold. One of them is the choice of the first words spoken by key characters. They revealed something core about them, suggesting both qualities and th

David Newman has been Archdeacon of Loughborough and Warden of Launde Abbey. He is the author of Growing Up into the Children of God: Exploring the Paradoxes of Christian Maturity  (Sacristy Press). A few months ago I met someone who had previously come to see me to talk through their response to LLF and same sex partnerships. Their starting point had been a conservative one and I asked them where they had reached in their thinking. Their response was striking. ‘I am getting

David Runcorn David is a convenor of Inclusive Evangelicals. He is the author of Love means Love - same-sex relationships and the bible (SPCK) and the editor of the forthcoming Evangelical and Inclusive - a future and a hope (Canterbury). In the church of her youth Rachel recalls hearing speakers from communist countries where those who were ‘out’ as a Christian were persecuted. There were stories of suffering and hardship, and the talk would always end with a challenge. ‘

David Runcorn is a co-convenor of Inclusive Evangelicals and the author of Love means Love - same-sex relationships and the bible (SPCK 2020). When you want your beliefs to be compelling and persuasive to others, being able to claim the numbers are on your side is undeniably helpful.   This has not always been possible for evangelicals. For the first half of the last century, they were a beleaguered minority in the Church of England, their beliefs wholly unsupported by number

The Inclusive Evangelical convenors are grateful to Mthr Arwen Folkes for permission to post her reflection here. She very honestly shares her experience of engaging with expressions of the evangelical tradition in the Church of England at this time. Someone once wrote that ‘the last thing we realise about ourselves is our effect’. This is a tough read but offered by a critical friend. It is an appeal for a greater self-awareness and thoughtful depth. We publish this here n

Canon Simon Butler was for some years one of the most senior priests in General Synod and a member of the Archbishops' Council. He is Rector of Holy Trinity & St Mary’s Guildford  . The crumbs of Living in Love and Faith ( LLF ) are meagre. Institutionally-speaking, the Church of England is almost as unwelcoming to those LGBT+people who wish to celebrate their life-long commitment before God as it was before LLF began. Whatever happened to “radical new Christian inclusion”?