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I've been busy elsewhere!
Today the Church Times has published a two-page spread with a terrifically written-up account of a conversation I had with Stanley Underhill. Click the link to read it.
Stanley is in his 90s, and is a retired Angican priest and also gay. Last year he published his autobiography, Coming out of the Black Country. It's a very moving account of a life lived mostly in secret, with terrible loneliness and shocking medical 'treatments' along the way to 'cure' him of being gay. Now a resident at Charterhouse, he is a delight and it has been a real treat to meet him and to share our stories.
We talked about my story too, and about my book and the hopes we both have to make a difference so that those LGBT+ Christian people who follow us may know more and more of God's love in their lives and in their Church experience.
Thanks to Madeleine Davies at the Church Times for asking us to do these conversations.
The Church Times Podcast this week is a slightly longer version of our conversation - so you can simply listen to us if you prefer! Click here for that (you may need to find the Feb 14 2019 episode, depending on what your browser does).
Last week, I was delighted to contribute to Jayne Ozanne's Via Media News site.
There I wrote about the ongoing challenge of being an LGBT voice in the Living in Love and Faith project, and how the lessons of LGBT History Month weigh on us as we try to participate. Nothing is perfect; and for some, there is too much cost to this battle. But for others of us, we stay on because little by little God brings us a new day. And those who will bathe in the full sunlight of that day can only do so because others have gone before us, holding candles through the night.
And of course before that was the Oxford Diocesan Magazine, Pathways, with its Head-To-Head piece on Human Sexuality. Following the publication of that, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Radio Berkshire's Sunday Morning programme.
My final words on that occasion (and it was one of those moments where I hadn't prepared anything, but I guess I just speak like a preacher!) were:
I've been busy elsewhere!
Today the Church Times has published a two-page spread with a terrifically written-up account of a conversation I had with Stanley Underhill. Click the link to read it.
Stanley is in his 90s, and is a retired Angican priest and also gay. Last year he published his autobiography, Coming out of the Black Country. It's a very moving account of a life lived mostly in secret, with terrible loneliness and shocking medical 'treatments' along the way to 'cure' him of being gay. Now a resident at Charterhouse, he is a delight and it has been a real treat to meet him and to share our stories.We talked about my story too, and about my book and the hopes we both have to make a difference so that those LGBT+ Christian people who follow us may know more and more of God's love in their lives and in their Church experience.
Thanks to Madeleine Davies at the Church Times for asking us to do these conversations.
The Church Times Podcast this week is a slightly longer version of our conversation - so you can simply listen to us if you prefer! Click here for that (you may need to find the Feb 14 2019 episode, depending on what your browser does).
Last week, I was delighted to contribute to Jayne Ozanne's Via Media News site.
There I wrote about the ongoing challenge of being an LGBT voice in the Living in Love and Faith project, and how the lessons of LGBT History Month weigh on us as we try to participate. Nothing is perfect; and for some, there is too much cost to this battle. But for others of us, we stay on because little by little God brings us a new day. And those who will bathe in the full sunlight of that day can only do so because others have gone before us, holding candles through the night.
And of course before that was the Oxford Diocesan Magazine, Pathways, with its Head-To-Head piece on Human Sexuality. Following the publication of that, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Radio Berkshire's Sunday Morning programme.
My final words on that occasion (and it was one of those moments where I hadn't prepared anything, but I guess I just speak like a preacher!) were:
The Church should always be a place where it's safe to be whoever you are, it's safe to disagree, it's safe to be a human being under the love of God with other people who are totally different from you - also under the love of God.
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