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  • 6 Nov 2008
    Challenge of prejudice remains in post-election USA, says Soulforce

    The director of a leading nonviolent US task force for lesbian and gay people, which includes many religious believers, has said that the election of Barack Obama is “a day of blessing seasoned by loss,” given the bigotry of some local issue votes.

  • 24 Oct 2008
    Methodists welcome sex and relationships education plan for schools

    The Methodist Church in Britain has welcomed the UK government’s decision to make education in schools about sex and relationships compulsory for children of all ages.

  • 22 Oct 2008
    The Gospel accorded to Antoni

    In a thoughtful, passionate and challenging reflection on homosexuality
    and the Christian church, Glynn Cardy's focus is not on an 'issue' but
    on the people who are most affected by prejudice, and their need for
    justice, dignity and human rights.

  • 3 Sep 2008
    Woman prosecutes art centre over 'lewd' Jesus statue

    A Christian is taking an art centre to court over an exhibition which included a statue of Jesus she believes was lewd and offensive. Civil rights activists say this is an attempt to reinstate blasphemy laws by the back door.

  • 31 Jul 2008
    Church will regret rejection of gays as well as slavery, says bishop

    The openly gay US bishop whose consecration in 2003 polarised the worldwide Anglican Communion, says he believes that one day the Church will regret its rejection of homosexuals the way that it now regrets its past support for slavery.

  • 25 Jul 2008
    Marching to a different drum?

    When Anglican bishops attending the Lambeth Conference took part in an anti-poverty walk with other faith leaders through central London, they traced steps that vividly illustrate the real divisions of our world, says Savi Hensman.

  • 22 Jul 2008
    Faith leaders out of touch with adherents on the gay issue, says report

    Claimed tension and hostility between religion and gay people is considerably over-emphasised by out-of-touch faith leaders, suggests new research from the campaigning equalities group Stonewall.

  • 17 Jul 2008
    Lambeth participants invited to take a walk on the gay side

    Participants in the Lambeth Conference are being invited to theatre show from a leading performance artist who offers to take them on a spiritual journey with lesbian and gay people.

  • 15 Jul 2008
    Tutu renews his appeal to Anglicans to end their factionalism

    Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has renewed his call for global Anglican leaders to focus on the gospel as a message of hope and healing for the world, and to move beyond factional in-fighting as they gather in Lambeth.

  • 27 Jun 2008
    Anglicans challenged on power, sex and ‘traditionalism’

    But new research from the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia suggests that those who want to keep the church defined by very narrow parameters are straying from well established Christian tradition.