New Seasons
Spring is lauded as the season of new beginnings, where the depths of winter retreat behind increasingly warm days that also grow longer and longer as the months progress. Which is why it is somewh...
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Lent
I suspect many of you will be familiar with the quotation: war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. It’s from 1984, George Orwell’s classic novel on the exploitation o...
Rhythm
“Rhythm is a space for the LGBT+ Christian community, to come together for connection and prayer.” I saw this phrase on the onebodyonefaith website ...
Goedgedacht
It seemed too indulgent, to stop. To be allowed the space and opportunity to meander into the lesser trod paths of activism and advocacy, to stillness, to rest, to simply be…and to be held and re...
No room at the inn / church / party / lunch / concert / gig *
*delete as appropriate If there is no room for you then where do you find space? I left the Church of England in early 2022, one of the most liberating a...
Big Queer Carols 2024
We have a new cat called Jenkins. Those of you who are familiar with the A13 will be able to guess his story because Jenkins Lane is the address of our local tip where he was found. When my wife wa...
Ordination
‘When we walk together in a good way, We learn to see the world Through two eyes When we walk together In a good way on Turtle Island, ...
O Death where is thy sting?
One of the depressing things about being an atheist must be that you know: that’s it. When the last breath is exhaled; the last pulse beats; the machine stops whirring: that’s it. There is no m...
Who's Counting?
It’s over two decades from the first time my call to exercise leadership and ministry was expressed by others, to reaching the next step on the journey. But hey, who’s counting…? Al...
Outreach
Trustee, George White, who attended the Outreach Conference in North America shares his reflection ...
Africa: pursuing inclusion through spirituality and faith
Adélard is the Coordinator and founder of Gay Christian Africa, a partner of OneBodyOneFaith. He is also a Trustee of OneBodyOneFaith, and lives in Italy. Names have been ch...
Church in Wales Memorial Service
Following the first LGBT+ Memorial service in London in April 2023, OneBodyOneFaith discerned with faith leaders the need to share these services across the four nations of the UK. On 26th May 24,...
European Forum
“Enlarge the place of your tent,” Memory and Prophecy, that was the theme of this year’s European Forum of LGBTI+ groups in Varese, Italy. The European Forum is an ecumenical association o...
WWJD?
In His Steps: What would Jesus do? is an 1896 book by Charles Sheldon written on a weekly basis for his Sunday night services. The original 10 cent publication sold over 100,000 copies and...
To Inclusion and Beyond
Many evangelical Christians who oppose LGBTQ+ relationships and equal marriage do so because they think that’s what they are supposed to believe. They want to be faithful to God and th...
All saints are Queer!
“One of the benefits of having a calendar of saints is that these wildly different lives speak to us in different situations and at different moments,” writes Rowan Williams. In the Church c...
A small still voice at Big Queer Carols
If you’ve never blogged before like myself, it’s difficult and uncertain to know what to write - where to start, what the tone should be and what people will be interested in. It’s like a sma...
A Christmas message from Luke Dowding
Season’s greetings from the whole OneBodyOneFaith team: staff, trustees, patrons, and volunteers! 2023 has been an immensely rewarding year for us as a charity, not only growing our staff...
Halloween; a God-given gift
Every year at about the end of September I begin to see my more conservative Christian friend start to get a bit twitchy. Not because of the start of the new term, or the impending sight of mince p...
In defence of sin…
Sin is an easy word to throw around and I suspect many of us who engage with church conversations about questions of sexuality and gender get thoroughly fed up of it. If I never have to hear someon...
