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  • 28 Mar 2008
    Listening and learning in the sexuality debate
  • 7 Feb 2008
    Shifting Evangelical opinion on sexuality
  • 7 Feb 2008
    Leading Evangelical bishop calls for fresh approach to sexuality row

    Bishop of Liverpool James Jones has called for a change of heart among Evangelicals in the bitter argument about sexuality, Scripture and authority. But he has not fully sanctioned same-sex relations, as some media reports have suggested.

  • 18 Dec 2007
    Anglicans need deep learning not cheap victory

    Some church leaders caught up in the sexuality row not only refuse to consider scholarship which does not conform to their own perspective but also demand the right to prohibit others from acting on the fruits of study, says Savi Hensman. Anglicans need to be learners not warriors.

  • 3 Dec 2007
    Call for UK to put children at the heart of its HIV/AIDS strategy

    Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has joined members of the Working Group on Orphans and Vulnerable Children calling on the UK government to put children at the heart of its new strategy for tackling HIV/AIDS throughout the world.

  • 23 Nov 2007
    Concern expressed over possible exclusion of bishops from Lambeth

    As inclusive Anglicans representing what many call the 'orthodox centre' in the church have been meeting in a major gathering called Drenched in Grace, concern has been expressed that the Archbishop of Canterbury is giving in to pressure from hardliners.

  • 19 Nov 2007
    Staying equally in the pink

    Understandably, there have been few in LGBT circles persuaded that the appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance to the new Commission on Equalities and Human Rights (CEHR) is anything other than a retrograde step.

  • 13 Nov 2007
    A church house divided against itself

    Parallels between civil wars and the escalating crisis within American Anglicanism are now being made, says Giles Fraser. Issues of truth and justice cannot be suppressed by a false and forced kind of unity.

  • 9 Nov 2007
    Equalities 'historic opportunity' for evangelicals

    The think-tank Ekklesia, which examines religion in public life, says that the controversial appointment of the head of the Evangelical Alliance UK to the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is "a historic opportunity for evangelicals to shift toward full acceptance of the equalities agenda."

  • 1 Nov 2007
    United Methodist court recognises transgender pastor's appointment

    The US United Methodist Church's legislative body has upheld a bishop's decision that a pastor who changed gender from female to male remains eligible to serve the church, in a move welcomed by those supporting transgender persons.