tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post4704141606658267740..comments2023-08-10T09:38:07.159+01:00Comments on Revising Reform: Sex or death?Rev R Marszalekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-28612382872478109182008-12-14T21:38:00.000+00:002008-12-14T21:38:00.000+00:00Thank you, Jane. You raise an interesting point ab...Thank you, Jane. You raise an interesting point about heterosexuality and thank you very much for the leads. I'll follow them up. <BR/>XRev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-87472284551700771922008-12-14T17:46:00.000+00:002008-12-14T17:46:00.000+00:00Rachel I think you're very courgaeous to be taking...Rachel I think you're very courgaeous to be taking this on. 20 years ago I was a member of the homosexuality working arty of my own church - the United Reformed Church - I dare say someone there could provide you with the really good biblical material Walter Houston wrote at that time.<BR/>Since then I've been a little involved in the issue in the French Reformed Church. The ERF's "discipline" states clearly that a minister of the church has to be either married or single. this means that homosexual clergy serving in local pastorates cannot live with their partners - as they cannot be married.<BR/>One of the things I tried to do was to apply these same standards to hetrosexual clergy. It fascinates me that at a time when actually heterosexual relationships are in huge flux we focus so much of energy on homosexuals ...<BR/>Good luck with your research thinking and writing on this - HAve you read countryman's Dirt sex and greed? It's all rather out of date now though. You could also visit Deirdre Good's blog for some ideas<BR/>she deals with the issue both professional as a scholar and personally as an Anglican lesbian.<BR/> Good luckJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04405344181636487394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-32691148358605042502008-12-12T12:09:00.000+00:002008-12-12T12:09:00.000+00:00Thank you for these leads Karen, I'll check to see...Thank you for these leads Karen, I'll check to see if the library stock these at St John's because I'm working out each assignment is costing me a considerable amount of money due to a lot of the stuff only being available on site in short-term loan and I'm part-time. It's an ethical dilemma in itself the cost of all this study. When you are so interested in everything you're learning, it takes discipline to not buy too many books. <BR/><BR/>Thanks again for your help. <BR/>God bless<BR/>RachelRev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-19127663381063500882008-12-12T09:34:00.000+00:002008-12-12T09:34:00.000+00:00Hi Rachel - I know what you mean about the mixed f...Hi Rachel - I know what you mean about the mixed feelings re: ethical and pastoral concerns & homosexuality. <BR/><BR/>I have three books I could recommend - <BR/>A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality - Stephen Bates (Hodder & Stoughton, 2004)<BR/><BR/>An Acceptable Sacrifice?: Homosexuality and the Church - Duncan Dormor and Jeremy Morris, eds. (SPCK, 2007)<BR/><BR/>What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality [this is from the liberal point of view] - Daniel A. Helminiak (Alamo Square Press, 2000)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com