David Runcorn is a convenor of the Inclusive Evangelical network, and the author of Love means Love – same-sex relationship and the bible.   A collection of studies and stories about evangelical faith and belief has just been published. Evangelical and Inclusive – a future and a hope is significant because it is written by evangelicals who support the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships in the life of the church. Their purpose is more than a revisiting of

A book review by Dr Stephen Burnhope of Darrin W. Snyder Belousek's Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union .   Marriage, Scripture, and the Church has been widely praised in conservative circles as a compelling defence of a traditional doctrine of exclusively male–female marriage. Its endorsers have welcomed the author’s decision to move beyond the familiar debate about the so-called “clobber texts” and to reframe the d

Jeremy Marks  is a Christian spiritual director and writer who has spent more than four decades in pastoral work with LGBTQ+ Christians. Drawing on his own long journey of faith, he writes about discovering God’s true character through Jesus, and the freedom that emerges when fear gives way to love. He blogs on Substack and on his website https://postcourage.net . Jeremy has recently published If You've Seen Me, You've Seen the Father: Discovering God's True Face in Jesus. H

Tim Chesterton offers the last of our New Year Resolutions for inclusive faith. Tim has recently retrred after a long and varied ministry in Canada. He was one of the founders of Inclusive Evangelicals and continues to be a wise and ally. Be More Radical   Here on the Inclusive Evangelicals blog, some of the convenors and members have been writing posts about new year’s resolutions for the IE movement. I have found their thoughts helpful, and they’ve also prompted me to ask

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