Dear church leaders, I warmly encourage churches of our network in the Church of England to make use of the newly-commended Prayers of Love and Faith starting this Sunday, 17 December 2023. Even though very much of our network will regard this step as too small, we must make use of what is available early […]
LLF letter to bishops, July 2023
Inclusive Church is among the inclusive organisations who have today (12 July 2023) sent the below letter (in text then PDF) to the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York and the Bishops of London and of Truro, regarding the outcomes of the Church of England’s ‘Living in Love and Faith’ process. A Public Letter on […]
Inclusive Church statement – 23 March 2023
Inclusive Church is aware of an allegation made on the website of the organisation ‘Christian Concern’. It refers to a member of General Synod who was reported to the police for an alleged hate crime relating to comments he made on social media about Pride and Queer Theory. On their website Christian Concern state that […]
General Synod and Same-Sex Relationships
The General Synod of the Church of England met this February, with the subject of same sex relationships dominating the agenda. This was the culmination of the five year Living in Love and Faith process, in which the church was invited to study, listen and reflect on the nature of human relationships, identity and sexuality. […]
IC Story: Jack Woodruff
My first encounter with Inclusive Church was a few years ago when I joined St Luke’s in Clifton, York, who at the time were one of two registered inclusive churches in the city. A few of us in the congregation began a monthly gathering called OutsideIN which sought to bring together LGBT+ Christians from across […]
Sermon: We All Need One Another
Sermon given by Ruth Wilde at Holy Trinity Church Twydall, Gillingham on the 12th February 2023 Gen 1:1 – 2:3; Matt 6: 25-end There are passages in the Bible that are very hard to hear for different groups. I am not going to lie – this passage from Matthew is hard to hear for people […]
Statement from Inclusive Church and the Campaign for Equal Marriage
—————————————————————————————————————— Joint Statement to General Synod from Inclusive Church and the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England on Living in Love and Faith and the response from the Bishops of the Church of England about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage. Both Inclusive Church and the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church […]
Disability Conference 2022: Wholly, Holey, Holy
On Saturday 15th October, we gathered online for our 11th annual conference on disability and the church, a partnership between St Martin in the Fields and Inclusive Church, hosted online by HeartEdge. This year’s theme was Wholly, Holey, Holy, a riff on the famous hymn inspired by Isaiah 6. Participants were invited to bring their […]
IC Story: Warren Hartley
I grew up in Sydney Australia in what I would these days label fundamentalist Christianity. There was no room for error, and despite it being spoken about frequently, there was no room for grace. As I matured, I soon learnt that there was certainly no room for gay people like me and I spent years […]
IC Stories: Gwilym Stone
I have been aware of Inclusive Church from its earliest days as people began to come together in response to the fiasco around Jeffery John’s nomination and then un-nomination as Bishop of Reading back in 2003. As early 2000s saw some big steps forward in the rights of lesbian and gay people in the UK, […]