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Andrew, Thank you for your thoughts. As a Priest it is your gift humbly to Bless those who seek a Blessing in genuine faith. So go ahead and Bless both your children, and their partners. Their lives have already been Blessed by God, you simply are expressing that Love in sacramental, and practical terms. It is only when we have God’s courage to step out of the chains that bind us by an unloving House of Bishops, that positive change will happen. God gave me my husband, after more than ten years as a widower. It was God in action,… Read more »
The Church of England seems so hidebound and so unable to move forward. Some of this is because of the rearguard conservatism inBritish society, some because of the pressure from conservative members of the Anglican Communion and part (probably the most significant) because of conservative groups within the Church of England itself-some are Anglo-Catholics, but mostly from the Conservative Evangelical wing, which seems to have a significant influence because they are a source of money and because they seem to threatening to “walk apart” (weasel words for “quit’). A sad situation.
If the only reason the CoE gives them space is for their money, then the CoE should follow it’s liberal.progressive convictions, let them leave, and see who survives. The wisdom of Gamaliel would seem the best here.