Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) believes in ‘conversion therapy’ for gay people, with its toxic, destructive results, writes Canon Marie Rowley-Brooke in the Irish Times
As Christians once had to “redo” the theology around the Earth’s position within the Universe, then perhaps similar thinking could be brought to bear on the same-sex relationships issue, a former Presbyterian moderator has said.
At the end of a bruising month for the Presbyterian Church, there are more questions than answers. There were bad headlines, comments and harsh letters to newspapers that would have made you cringe, Alf McCreary writes in the Belfast Telegraph
NEWS FOCUS – Presbyterian college should be standing up for freedom of academics, not silencing them
No matter how it is dressed up, there is no place for censorship in a university institution, says Fionola Meredith in the Belfast Telegraph
ACNA is a group of churches in North America which is in disagreement with The Episcopal Church (TES). The author writes from within membership of a group which remains within TES but disagrees with some of its decisions and practices.
Patrick M is an elder in a local Presbyterian Church outside Dublin. He writes - this post is not discussing the rights and wrongs of same-sex relationships, ‘active’ or not. It’s responding to the process and new policy of the PCI.
Queen's University has said it is reviewing "the nature of its relationship" with the Presbyterian-run Union Theological College, which teaches its degree courses in theology, The Belfast Telegraph reports.
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A former Presbyterian cleric has claimed that the Church has been "scoring own goals" by trying to silence debate on same-sex issues and its relationship with the Church of Scotland, Alf McCreary writes in the Belfast Telegraph.
Attendance by two Church of Ireland bishops at the conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) meeting in Jerusalem last week has provoked deep anger among the church’s clergy, Patsy McGarry writes in The Irish Times.
Two thousand meet at Gafcon conference in Jerusalem, Church Times report - Evangelist Quits Anglican Task Force Over Bishop’s LGBT Affirmation - Letter to the Churches from Gafcon Assembly 2018
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