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• I spoke during a safeguarding debate in February 2024, affirming
• Active member of these groups: Affirming Catholics,
That changed when in my late 30s I found a wonderfully affirming and inclusive church where my faith in Jesus was nurtured and encouraged.
For a number of years, I have been a member of the board of Affirming Catholicism.
One of the things we have done for nearly every group of Synod sessions over the last fifteen years is prepare a briefing paper under the umbrella of Affirming Catholics in Synod (ACiS).
I’m a director of Affirming Catholicism UK, and member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, the Ecclesiastical History Society, and the Society for Reformation Studies.
Mission and growth at the parish level requires clear, robust Church Representation Rules that produce efficient, unified, and properly funded efforts while balancing welfare for clergy and affirming lay leadership.
Affirming | Inclusive | Generous | Energetic | Real Proposed by the Revd Jane Morris SCP, Rector, Lingwood Benefice
• I’m affirming, inclusive,
I hold to a traditional understanding of God's plan for human sexuality, gender and marriage, while affirming that Scripture clearly teaches, we are each made in His likeness and deeply loved.
In July, a motion affirming that committed, faithful same-sex relationships are compatible with Christian discipleship and ministry was carried by both the clergy and the laity.
From 2014 – 2016, I attended St John’s in Waterloo, which is from the affirming Catholic tradition.
During my time as a trustee of the Ozanne Foundation, I met affirming Evangelicals who also shaped my faith journey.
I have ministered for over 30 years across a huge variety of traditions within the Church of England (from Affirming Catholic and Traditional Catholic to Open Evangelical and Conservative Evangelical) in a wide range of contexts, and see good in every one of them.
It grieves me deeply that people do not necessarily experience the synodical life of our church as a spiritually enhancing and life affirming experience.
Over the past 11 years I have sought to speak constructively and winsomely in the various debates on identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage affirming the place
Is inclusive welcoming, affirming, and valuing everyone.
• Inclusivity for All: A Church that is inclusive and affirming of all, whatever their sexuality,
I am committed to the inclusion of women’s ministry at all levels within the Church and to affirming people in same sex relationships.
I am affirming of same sex relationships, and fully supportive of all in ministry.
A formative moment in ministry was making someone cry by merely affirming that God really does love them and Psalm 139 is as much their scripture as it is mine.
Inclusive and affirming Poverty and justice focused Prayerfully driven
I am affirming of LGBT+ people, their relationships and of supporting LGBT+ people in their vocation.
I’ve learned how everything connects: an unexpected synodical highlight in the last 5 years was the excellent debate on sustainable flowers in church, linking the important international, national, and local dimensions of being an Anglican, allowing us to understand how local decisions interact with environmental concerns, and affirming the value of the voluntary service from all the lay people on whom our churches rely.
First & foremost, I feel called to stand for general synod as an important way of standing with those who feel this marginalisation - just as Jesus did - through advocating, affirming, challenging & bringing the concerns & voices of those in our parishes and communities into the room.
I’m incredibly proud to lead a church who have an ‘Autism Affirming Place of Worship’ award & are part of the ‘Inclusive Church’ network.
• Affirming Catholics in Synod.
Diocesan Lead Advisor for Training/CMD Advisor for Barking Area I am grateful to my proposer, The Venerable Mike Power, and to my seconder, the Reverend Sharon Quilter, for their support and for affirming my calling to stand as a clergy representative to General Synod.
Regularly leading services in these four involves ministry in a Prayer Book parish (Monkton Combe) and an Affirming Catholicism parish (South Stoke).
An open, welcoming and affirming Church The Church of England should be open, welcoming and, most importantly, affirming of all its members confident that all are made in the image of Christ.
If elected, I will be a strong and vocal supporter of Living in Love and Faith and of work towards a more inclusive and affirming Church.
I am standing for General Synod because I want to help build a Church that is welcoming, affirming, rooted in its parishes and confident about its future.
It’s about so many different things from legislation, to presentations, to discussions, sometimes on life changing and life affirming issues and at the centre of it all, a trust in Jesus and that the Spirit will guide us.