tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post2069210893776504523..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Pilling SpiltPluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-14823465411074551122013-12-08T17:42:39.190+01:002013-12-08T17:42:39.190+01:00I hope you're right.I hope you're right.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-45924110543408850052013-12-08T15:58:26.304+01:002013-12-08T15:58:26.304+01:00Maybe "the liberals cannot win," but, on...Maybe "the liberals cannot win," but, on the grounds argued in David Runcorn's appendix to Pilling, an increasingly number of evangelicals now affirm LGBT relationships. A member of Fulcrum's leadership team has just resigned over the issue. Female ordination came from an alliance of evangelical, liberal, and catholic Anglicans. Such an alliance is now forming around affirming loving relationships regardless of gender.<br /><br />Whether the Church of England wants to ignore it or not, society won't let it. Its current teaching is toxic to mission, devoid of reason, and unsustainable. The status quo is a greater shock to the institution than change.<br /><br />This can be won, and won soon. Justice will out, especially when it's in lockstep with realpolitik.Byronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05023778745849420397noreply@blogger.com