BAME Anglican

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I often encounter people whose relationship to their faith is built on following the rules to the letter. While it is admirable I cant help but think how detrimental lack of change can be. while it is true there are somethings in church that must be left unchanged there are many others that need to be changed constantly.  When I am told gay rights are a fad I can't help but think slavery was a fad, one which we thought was normal. Abolitionists were thought to the abnormal snowflakes of their time. If there is one thing Christianity teaches us it is this- this world's ways are not God's ways. Jesus in his teaching urges his followers to reason why rules exist, putting people before rules. Think 'was man made for the Sabbath or the Sabbath made for man' Jesus doesn't discard the Sabbath but puts human needs like healing before the Sabbath.   Theology is not static but adaptive to changing human needs. At this particular moment in time Women's righ

This looks like an excellent church service in Gloucester. Please attend and promote their work if you can. This is intersectionality in action. 

A despotic king orders his servants to perform sexual favours, they refuse, he slaughters them. A sexual revolutionary enraged by his subjects lack of sexual openness after their conversion to Christianity kills them. The story of the Ugandan martyrs is read in many ways, either through racial or queer retellings. Certain afrocentrists have presented King Mwanga II Basammula Ekkere as a bisexual man who was trying to resist foreign Christianity. Anti LGBT groups have written about this incident pointing out the depravity of gay people. Context in which these acts took place are lost in these politicised retellings. Christianity in the continent of Africa has had a long history appearing in the early days of when the faith was being established and also during colonial times. As with conversion through the centuries neo converts have had to negotiate their place in society, which often turns hostile towards them. Rejecting their non-Christian past converts ha