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Changing Attitude Ireland – Annual General Meeting 2023

Changing Attitude Ireland was delighted to welcome Jayne Ozanne to speak to us on Saturday 25 March 2023, before we held our AGM. Following the AGM, CAI are delighted to announce that Mark Bowyer has been elected chair in succession to Scott Golden, who has stepped down after many years of service on the committee. Mark has been on the committee for a number of years and is an openly gay man, a Diocesan Lay Minister in the Church of Ireland and who is committed to the work of CAI. Speaking after his election as chair, Mark Bowyer said, “it is important now, more than ever, that we continue to be the voice of those who feel marginalised in their own church and communities because of their sexuality. We risk losing a generation of LGBT+ people who are turned away from the Church because of this.” [Continue Reading]

Video: John Bell at General Synod 2018 Fringe Event

John Bell, a member of the Iona Community, Presbyterian minister, broadcaster, hymn-writer and international lecturer will be the Changing Attitude Ireland speaker at this year’s General Synod lunch-time session on Friday May 11th. He has chosen the title, “God, Delight and Diversity”, and plans briefly to explore three subjects: problematic approaches to scripture, the created order as diverse by design, and the need for the laity to have their intelligence, experience and aspirations inform the Church’s deliberations on sexuality. [Continue Reading]

AGM Report – Equal Marriage in Scottish Church

How did the Scottish Episcopal Church do it? This was the question in the minds of those who gathered for the Changing Attitude Ireland AGM lecture by the Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow, the Very Revd Kelvin Holdsworth, in Dublin on Saturday 28th October. As a key member of Changing Attitude Scotland, Holdsworth has been at the heart of the campaign to permit its clergy to solemnise marriages in church regardless of the couple’s gender. [Continue Reading]

Jayne Ozanne “Good Disagreement” or Being Gay in the context of Christian belief Part 9

Good Disagreement Part 9:” Which was more painful; Coming out as an LGBT or having to re-interpret your faith?” In this, the final video of our nine part series recorded in 2016 Jayne Ozanne LGBT Christian campaigner asks this question as part of the discussion on the subject of the inclusion of openly LGBT Christians in […]

Jayne Ozanne “Good Disagreement” or Being Gay in the context of Christian belief Part 7

Good Disagreement Part 7: “Is it true that LGBT teenagers are more predisposed to suicide?” In this edition of our nine part series of the CAI talk that ran on the fringe of the Church of Ireland General Synod 2016, where Jayne Ozanne, LGBT Christian campaigner asks this question as part of the discussion on […]

Brandan Robertson ‘The Nomad’s Journey’ being LGBTQ in the Church today

Jayne Ozanne Good Disagreement Part 6: “Is Homosexual Orientation a Sin?

Good Disagreement Part 6: “Is Homosexual Orientation a Sin? In this edition of our nine part series of the CAI talk that ran on the fringe of the Church of Ireland General Synod 2016, where Jayne Ozanne, LGBT Christian campaigner asks this question as part of the discussion on the subject of the inclusion of […]

Jayne Ozanne “Good Disagreement” or Being Gay in the context of Christian belief Part 4

Part 4 of ‘Good Disagreement’ the CAI talk that ran on the fringe of the Church of Ireland General Synod 2016, where Jayne Ozanne, LGBT Christian campaigner spoke on the topic of ‘Good Disagreement’. Centring around the subject of the inclusion of openly LGBT Christians in the Church and same-sex marriage, in the context of […]

Jayne Ozanne “Good Disagreement” or Being Gay in the context of Christian belief Part 3

Part 3 of the CAI talk that ran on the fringe of the Church of Ireland General Synod 2016, where Jayne Ozanne, LGBT Christian campaigner spoke on the topic of ‘Good Disagreement’. Centring around the subject of the inclusion of openly LGBT Christians in the Church and same-sex marriage, in the context of Christian belief, […]

Jayne Ozanne “Good Disagreement” or Being Gay in the context of Christian belief Part 2

Part 2 of the Changing Attitude Ireland sponsored event that ran on the fringe of the Church of Ireland General Synod, at which Jayne Ozanne, LGBT Christian campaigner spoke on the topic of ‘Good Disagreement’. This centred around the subject of the inclusion of openly LGBT Christians in the Church and same-sex marriage, in the […]