Monthly Archives: February 2012
Accepting Sexuality Annual Lecture: Notes on the Margins of the Church
Accepting Sexuality, a Methodist group, will be holding it’s annual lecture Notes on the Margins of the Church at 8 pm on Friday 24 February in Grosvenor House, Glengall Street, Belfast. The lecture is held in association with Changing Attitude Ireland.
Revd Dr Hugh Rayment-Pickard will be speaking about why the Church needs the people it has pushed to the margins: if the church really seeks insights it needs to those whom it has pushed away.
Hugh Rayment-Pickard MBE is a founder and currently Director ot Communications for the education charity lntoUniversity. Before that, he worked for over 20 years as a priest in London parishes. He is the author of several publications including The Myths of Time: from St Augustine to American Beauty and The Inclusive God.
Accepting Sexuality is an informal group of Methodists, ordained and lay, working for the Church’s welcome and inclusion of LGBT people.
Changing Attitude Ireland is a Church ot Ireland organisation with ecumenical Friends, working For the inclusion of LGBT persons within the Churches.
Faith and Pride 2012: Call for Contributions
The theme for this years Faith and Pride event in July is Fear Not, taken from Luke 12:32.
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
As with last year, the event will consist of two talks, each about half an hour long. If you would like to give one of the talks, or be involved in any way, please contact us. Although Faith and Pride is a Christian organisation, contributors do not have to be Christian. Contributions should reflect the theme of Fear Not in some way, and should be consistent with our ethos: “We’re not about arguing or putting down someone else’s view. We’re putting forward an alternative view.”
We also invite submissions of papers and articles of interest to gay Christians. Although articles and papers do not have to have a theme of Fear Not, they should still be consistent with our ethos.
Book Launch: Moving Forward Together: Homosexuality and the Church of Ireland
Changing Attitude Ireland is launching a new book, “Moving Forward Together: Homosexuality and the Church of Ireland”, in Belfast on Tuesday 7th February and in Dublin on Thursday 9th February.
The book, co–edited by Ginnie Kennerley and Richard O’Leary, includes short articles in straightforward language written by leading theologians and well known Church figures, as well as personal accounts from both lay and ordained gay or lesbian people. Among the contributors are Dr Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology in Oxford, Dr Andrew Pierce from the Irish School of Ecumenics, the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory, Archdeacon Gordon Linney, and Dr Alan Acheson. You can download the table of contents and the foreword and preface.
The book will be launched in Belfast on 7 February at 4.45pm at the Good Bookshop, Donegall St (next to St Anne’s Cathedral) where the speaker will be Lady Brenda Sheil. The Dublin launch will be on 9 February at 6.15pm in the Trinity College Gallery Chapel, where the speaker will be Judge Catherine McGuinness.
It can be bought at the following locations.
- DUBLIN
- Best Sellers, Dawson St
- The RE Resource Centre Rathmines
- Books Upstairs, Dame st (opposite TCD)
- The Exchange bookshop, Dalkey
- BELFAST
- The Good Book Shop (Donegall st, next to St Anne’s cathedral)
- No Alibis bookshop (Botanic Avenue)
- LONDONDERRY
- Eason bookshop
- COUNTRYWIDE
- Some Church of Ireland cathedral book stalls
- BY POST
from The Treasurer, Changing Attitude Ireland,.
36 Seahill Road Holywood Co. Down BT18 0DJ Northern Ireland
P&P £1 or €3 according to UK/ROI address
Order Form
Faith and Pride 