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.