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

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

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

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”?

Canon Dr Phil Groves, is a leading authority on the Global Anglican church. He was a CMS Mission partner and lecturer in theology at St Philip’s Kongwa in Tanzania. He served at the Anglican Communion Office for 10 years. He has attended two Lambeth Conferences, three Primates’ Meetings and four ACCs. He has a PhD on Partnership in the Anglican Communion and is Vicar of the parishes of Cuddington and of Stone, Dinton and Hartwell. This blog was first published by viamedia.new

The Inclusive Evangelical convenors met this week and Steve Hollinghurst writes this response on our behalf for those needing help understanding the present state of play on the slow and very painful journey towards inclusion. Other responses will be offered in due course so this is not a point by point addressing of the particular issues - in part because no final decisions have yet been made.     Steve writes: What follows is an interpretation of events from me as an IE con

This is the first of two responses to recent initiatives by conservative evangelicals resisting General Synod decisions on human...

David Runcorn is one of the convenors of Inclusive Evangelicals and the author of the forthcoming book, 'Playing in the Dust - a...

The text of a talk given recently by David Runcorn at an evening organized by Coventry Diocese Inclusive Anglicans and Warwick &...

We are Convenors of Inclusive Evangelicals, a predominantly Anglican group with members from other churches. Several of us have been...

David Runcorn in one of the convenors of Inclusive Evangelicals and the author of Love means Love - same-sex relationships and the Bible...

David Runcorn in one of the convenors of Inclusive Evangelicals* and the author of Love means Love - same-sex relationships and the Bible...

Are conservatives really really defending an unchanged tradition? Mark Vasey-Saunders teaches Doctrine, Advanced Christian Ethics and...

The decision is drawing near. As we await the declared mind of the Bishops and General Synod of the Church of England on the full ...

David Newman is a retired priest. After many years in parish ministry he served as Archdeacon of Loughborough and then Warden of Launde...

'Evangelical' - history, definitions, identity and the bible - Paul Roberts lectures in Worship and Church History at Trinity College...

David Newman is a retired priest. After many years in parish ministry he served as Archdeacon of Loughborough and then Warden of Launde...

In November General Synod will be asked to vote on the way ahead for the Prayers of Love and Faith, and all proposed with it. That is...