Category: The Lead

MA Bishops support of transgender nondiscrimination bill

Many transgender people serve faithfully in the congregations and ministries of our diocese, as lay people, as deacons and as priests. They are dedicated and loving parents, children, siblings, friends and community leaders. Again and again, we hear how they have struggled against incredible odds and pressures to be true to their identity as beloved children of God, made in the image of God.

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We are raised in one of two cultures. In Ask culture, people grow up believing they can ask for anything – a favour, a pay rise – fully realising the answer may be no. In Guess culture, by contrast, you avoid “putting a request into words unless you’re pretty sure the answer will be yes. … ” Neither’s “wrong”, but when an Asker meets a Guesser, unpleasantness results.

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Playing into the consumer-driven religious marketplace

If a bird abandons the eggs she has been sitting on, she prevents them from hatching, and in the same way monks or nuns will grow cold and their faith will perish if they go around from one place to another
– The desert mother Amma Syncletica as quoted by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture

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CoE staff cuts inevitable

A report on finances has found that a quarter of all 44 dioceses are running deficits and plundering reserves to pay stipends and pensions. A similar proportion has liquid reserves to last them one month or less. High staffing levels of clegy and laity are highlighted.

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