13 responses to “Who is welcome?”
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I seek forgiveness for my sins, William. I don’t seek forgiveness for being gay, because I don’t believe that that is a sin: I am as God made me. If a church views my sexuality as a sin, I am welcomed not as a child of God who is loved just as I am but as someone who needs God to fix her. And as the Church as a whole has a long and chequered history of believing exactly that, I see an enormous difference between a church that welcomes sinners and a church that welcomes gay folk. It’s the difference between feeling marginalised and excluded, and feeling loved and valued and included.
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Amen Sistah!
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Sermon – 26 March 2006
What shall we make of the Old Testament story this morning. (Numbers 21.4-9) What use is a story like this to us. There were snakes poisoning people. What the people believed was this – that if they did things which were bad, then bad things would happen to them. It is a belief as old…
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Blogging again
Alright, alright. I’m back blogging again. It has just been a very busy week.Off today on mini-pilgrimage with a member of St Saviour’s. We are going to Walsingham. Well, we are going to Paisley really – Walsingham is coming to us. There is an afternoon of contemplation and meditation and general holiness in the Holy…
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Blog Off
Having a few days off blogging. Back soon.
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Gothenberg
Here is the link to the website of the Cathedral parish in Gothenberg (ie Domkyrkoförsamlingen i Göteborg): http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/gbgdomkyrko/(Glasgow Diocese is in the process of twinning with Gothenberg)
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