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  • 21 Jun 2008
    Catholics to come out at London Gay Pride

    Gay Catholics from all over the country will be parading behind a 'Proudly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered & Proudly Catholic' banner in the impending Pride London Parade.

  • 9 May 2008
    Women's rights and religious liberty

    Rowan Williams' recent lecture on the religious grounding of universal human rights raised difficult questions about the status of women in relation to freedom for faith.

  • 28 Apr 2008
    Black clergy in USA say gays face same rights struggle as black people

    Two senior black United Methodist clergy in the USA, also longtime civil-rights advocates, say there are parallels between the struggles of blacks in the 1960s and those of gays and lesbians working for full inclusion in the church today.

  • 14 Apr 2008
    Gay Catholics urge Pope to enter dialogue

    In advance of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the US, three prominent gay Catholics have urged the pontiff to enter into a dialogue with lesbian and gay Catholics. They addressed the pontiff through open statements about their lives, loves, and hopes for the church at a press conference at the end of last week.

  • 9 Apr 2008
    Living as an ordinary radical?: A dialogue with Shane Claiborne

    Faithworks, Livability Community Mission and Tearfund are hosting a free discussion evening with Shane Claiborne the founder of the Simple Way community and author of The Irresistible Revolution and J

  • 28 Mar 2008
    Listening and learning in the sexuality debate
  • 22 Mar 2008
    Bible should liberate not enslave women, say theologians

    The Bible needs to be re-read from the viewpoint of women so as to shatter "institutionalised patriarchy", which is reinforced by "conservative" biblical interpretation, says a leader of a prominent group of women theologians.

  • 18 Mar 2008
    Fulcrum Conference Islington: Conflict and Covenant

    Conference Speakers:

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

  • 14 Mar 2008
    Being on the side of the crucified

    In a reflection on faith and human rights for Easter, Savi Hensman argues that issues of life and death and the question about whether Christians are on the side of the powerful or the powerless go to the heart of the Gospel story.

  • 14 Mar 2008
    United Reformed Church appoints first woman head

    The United Reformed Church has appointed the Rev Roberta Rominger as its general secretary. She becomes the first woman to hold the senior post in the Church, or in any of its predecessor denominations.