Here are some links to our partners' websites and some other organisations

Accepting Evangelicals :   an open network of Evangelical Christians who believe the time has come to move towards the acceptance of faithful, loving same-sex partnerships at every level of church life, and the development of a positive Christian ethic for gay and lesbian people.

Affirming Catholicism: a movement of inspiration and hope in the Anglican Communion, seeking to bring together and strengthen lay and ordained people who recognise the positive, inclusive and joyful currents in the Catholic tradition of Christianity

Association of Black Clergy:  representing and working for black clergy in the churches (no website)

Changing Attitude  Dedicated to gay and lesbian affirmation and greater understanding between members of the Anglican Communion

Clergy Consultation:  A confidential support organisation for lesbian,  gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex Ministers,  Religious and Ordinands and their partners,  primarily but not exclusively from the Anglican Churches of the United Kingdom

Evangelical Fellowship of Lesbian and Gay Christians  EFLGC formed in 1979, is a group of women and men, most of whom are lesbian, gay or bisexual and come from an evangelical Christian background.

Group for the Rescinding of the Act of Synod: The Episcopal Act of Synod 1993 damaged the unity of the Church of England by legislating for a divided church. GRAS was founded by the late Monica Furlong to seek its rescission.

Isaiah Community - prayers for love and justice - weekly at 6pm at St John's Church, Waterloo.

Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) Anglican Matters - Working against homophobia and for the full inclusion of lesbian and gay Christians

Modern Churchpeople's Union - liberal theology in a changing world

Society of Catholic Priests - a growing society of men and women serving as Priests througout the Anglican Communion. The society is seeking to promote priestly spirituality and Catholic Evangelism.

SCM -   a movement seeking to bring together students of all denominations to explore the Christian faith in an open-minded and non-judgemental environment.

Sybils - a UK based confidential Christian spirituality group for transgender people,  and their supporters, offering companionship along the journey, and information/advocacy to churches. 

Thinking Anglicans :  The latest news and comment on what's happening in the Anglican Communion  -  the definitive guide (as far as anything can be!)

Women and the Church (WATCH)  WATCH is campaigning to see women take their place alongside men as bishops and at every level in the Church of England

The Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology aims to act as a platform for the creation and dissemination of feminist theological research

 

Marilyn McCord Adams,  Regius Professor of Divinity,  Oxford University - "Leaven in the lump of Lambeth - Spiritual Temptations,  Ecclesial Opportunities" -   

 

Savi Hensman - Rewriting History: Scapegoating The Episcopal Church"  - In the global intra-Anglican 'wars' about sexuality, biblical interpretation, authority and church polity, The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the USA has been singled out from other Anglican provinces and subjected to harsh criticism and threats of expulsion. Why is this?

 

Simon Barrow - "How the church should learn to eat itself" 

Communion, Eucharist, Mass. Call it what you will. To many outside the church (as well as a few within) it remains a bizarre and arcane ritual. But to those who view it as a key embodiment of Christian hope it is about being transformed by Christ into a Body bound together by inexhaustible love.

Insofar as this turns out to be true or false, everything else in the Christian life depends not just on "taking communion”, but on the way that it is done - in the world, not just the sanctuary