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Dean John Mann talks to Ginnie Kennerley
Ginnie Kennerley writes: The Select Committee on Human Sexuality in the Context of Christian Belief has been in place for nearly three years now, its initial two-year period having been extended to four at General Synod last year. Its charge is to “enable the listening, dialogue and learning process on all issues concerning human sexuality in the context of Christian belief to continue.” (And the charge remains in place, despite the recent call for a three-year suspension of The Episcopal Church, which allows same-sex marriage in church, from voting in Anglican consultations or representing the Communion on Inter-Faith bodies.) So the Committee did not start from a tabula rasa. Its creation sprang from the Church’s crying need to calm down a potentially schismatic argument which was grievously hurting and alienating individuals at all levels of church life, and from all church backgrounds.* Full article available in printed copies.