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On 'the texts' I agree that determining the exact meaning of Greek words can be tedious and it certainly won\'t bring the whole debate to the end. But it can highlight significant differences in understanding biblical authority....

Dear Giles,

Thanks for your swift reply and sorry for longer turnaround from me. I\'ll plead I had a bit more work to do for the Aff Cath conference last Saturday as I was giving a paper! I'm still processing that day but it...

And evangelicals? Well, I was converted at a Christian house party organised by HTB. And I will always be grateful for the affirmation of a personal relationship with Jesus which I hadn't previously understood. There can be...

18th January 2007

Dear Andrew

Many thanks for yours dated 13th January. I had a good time abroad - two weeks in India certainly brings a chastening perspective to the struggles within the Communion, particularly as India...

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13th January 2007

Dear Giles,

A belated Happy New Year and welcome back from your travels. I am sorry that I'm only just getting round to replying to your message from before Christmas.

I am really excited at where this...

19th December 2006

Dear Andrew,

I write with some trepidation - I have to say it feels a bit like going into the lion's den! Thank you for agreeing to a correspondence.

On the occasions we've met recently I've been...

Waiting for Goddards: Corresponding Theologies

Who are we?

Andrew Goddard is Tutor in Christian Ethics at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and Giles Goddard is Rector of St Peter\'s Church, Walworth South London. Giles is also Chair of...

The decision by two ancient Anglican churches in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC at the weekend to secede from the US Episcopal church and seek alternative oversight with the hardline anti-homosexual Primate of Nigeria has...

'Towards an Anglican Covenant': A Response from InclusiveChurch

By Rev. Canon Vincent Strudwick

Part 2:

3 What then is the point of any Covenant ?

InclusiveChurch believes that a Covenant which explicitly affirms our...

'Towards an Anglican Covenant': A Response from InclusiveChurch

By Rev. Canon Vincent Strudwick

In spite of the dismay and anxiety we experience at the continuing discord within the Anglican Communion, 'InclusiveChurch' is...

There are so many problems springing from this lack of ability to talk openly about changes within our understanding of gender relations and sexual identity that it is hard to know where to start but I want to mention...

4)What can we offer? - to enter the debate about where authority lies,

Inside or Outside Ourselves?

As the layers of what I had been unprepared to feel dropped away, I found of course that I am a woman and that I am gay,...

[talk given at our conference on 14th October 2006]

1) What can we offer an uninterested world ?

Or " SINGING IN THE RAIN”

A couple of years ago I gave a talk to that august group of clergy in the London Diocese which is...