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Andrew Goddard writes: Following my recent article on where we should be going on LLF I had a few brief exchanges with David Runcorn on my Facebook page. This made clear that he and I were viewing the current situation in quite different ways but, as he commented, “that needs a long conversation”. I was therefore pleased to see his recent announce on the new Inclusive Evangelicals site which gives a much clearer meaning of his understanding. Sadly, it confirms we locate ourselves disagreeing not only on how to interpret Scripture but also on how to interpret the recent past and the LLF process.
Although I consent with David’s account of LLF in some respects, in key areas I believe it is flawed. I think it proposals a misrepresentation of what LLF was doing, what we can say about the responses to it, the discernment process, and what all this means for where we are now and how we might best proceed. In what follows I investigate three areas he highlights: the findings of LLF; the speed of the discernment process; and the place of General Synod.
I want to begin with the common ground. LLF was indeed “a doubt to familiar approaches [to] learning in ways we have perhaps yet to recognis
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Born in Exile
By
George Gissing
CONTENTS
Part I
CHAPTER I
The summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a heavy shower fell from the smoke-canopy above the roaring streets) the municipal authorities, educational dignitaries, and prominent burgesses of Kingsmill assembled on an accessible space before the College to unveil a statue of Sir Job Whitelaw. The honoured baronet had been six month
‘Andrew MacFarlane’ writes: This is a concise précis of a longer piece that included many references to current literature on the issues contained within Living in Love and Faith (LLF). This précis is not exhaustive but provides some key discussion points.
The ‘LGBT+’ grouping
The singular grouping of lesbian, gay, attracted to both genders, trans-sexual, intersexual, and others (LGBTI+) is an increasingly problematic term that elides a number of different issues. LGB refers to a grouping based on the attraction to specific sexed bodies; trans-sexuals are a grouping based on gender identity that typically differs from their natal sex. Intersex peoples are a group comprised of specific medical conditions, often with chromosomal abnormalities or androgen insensitivity, based on differences of sexual development (DSD). LLF assumes that LGBTI+ is a meaningful and recognized umbrella term, but that term is actually fracturing.
There is clear and sustained pushback from the ‘gender-critical‘ feminist and lesbian communities (whose views are not discussed in LLF at all) against the invasion of male-sexed women into female-only spaces. Lesbians, for whom hereditary
Brackley, b Liverpool, 1859; Towing
Mars, b ??, Tender, Towing
Satellite, b 1848, Glasgow; Tender 1848-1900, iron
Jackal, b 1852, Glasgow, Tender 1852-1893, iron
Richmond, b 1834, Glasgow; HMPO (after 1837 HM Redwing) Tender, Towing, 1834-48
Warrington, b 1840, Warrington; Coasting, iron
Earl of Powis, Lord Clive, b 1838, Ellesmere Dock tugs 1843 on.
Liverpool Screw, b 1842, Liverpool; Towing, [iron, screw].
Weaver, b 1852, Lairds; upper Mersey towing, [iron, screw]
Delta, b 1859, Jones, Liverpool; Tender, iron
Some steam vessels, registered or owned at Liverpool, of similar size to ferries and tugs, but which appear to have been engaged in coastal or foreign trade, as ferries/tugs at other ports, or as private yachts.
Unknown, b 1844, Warrington, private steam yacht [iron]
Daedalus, b 1843, Liverpool; private steam yacht. [screw]
Lucifer, b 1846, Liverpool; private steam yacht.[iron, screw]
Prince of Wales, b 1842, Thames; reg Liverpool 1849, Humber ferry, iron
Queen, b 1842, Thames; reg Liverpool 1849, Humber ferry, iron
Prince Albert, b 1849, Tyne; reg Liverpool 1850, steam tug at Troon.
Iron Prince, b 1845, Liverpool; Coasting, [iro