Thank you for the invitation to speak at this annual IDAHO service; I count it a great privilege to share in the worship today and to address you. Our theme this year is a very broad ranging one and while it is a very important one, it seems almost too great for us to be able to respond to in any meaningful way. When we contemplate the range of vicious and violent homophobia around the world in Uganda, Nigeria, certain parts of America and indeed in many other places it seems impossible to challenge. Yet all it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. [Continue Reading]
Canon Ginnie Kennerly’s IDAHO 2011 sermon in Dublin
15 May 2011
That’s because as today’s New Testament reading reminds us, “Christ has abolished the law – (that’s the law regarding the division of Jews and Gentiles) – so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, to reconcile both groups to God in one body, putting their hostility to death through the cross”. Divisions between human groups and communities and factions are not of God; divisiveness is against the teaching and practice of Christ; so let us strive not to define ourselves as against but for other human beings, however badly they may have behaved, however different their culture and traditional values are from our own. [Continue Reading]
Photo: Bishop Michael Burrows at the launch of CAI’s publication, “I Think my Son or Daughter is Gay”
13 May 2011
The Rt Revd Michael Burrows, Bishop of Cashel & Ossory pictured at the launch of the new Changing Attitude Ireland publication, ‘I Think my Son or Daughter is Gay’. [Continue Reading]
Belfast Telegraph: Church’s guidance for parents of gay kids
13 May 2011
A new booklet which aims to give advice to Church of Ireland parents who find out their child is gay will be launched at the General Synod today. I Think My Son Or Daughter Is Gay: Guidance For Parents Of Gay Children In The Church Of Ireland, has been written by Gerry Lynch from Changing Attitude Ireland, an organisation which campaigns for the inclusion of gay people in the Church. One such parent is Paul Rowlandson, whose youngest daughter Katherine (31) came out as a lesbian when she was 16. [Continue Reading]
Video: An interview with David Norris
27 April 2011
A candid interview with Senator David Norris surrounding his life, his career and his opinions on the gay community. Norris worked tirelessly for 14 years to overthrow Ireland’s anti-homosexuality law, succeeding in 1988. [Continue Reading]
Passion Sunday sermon by Canon Charles Kenny
10 April 2011
Groomsport Parish Church, Diocese of Down
We usually call this Passion Sunday, having in mind that period of intense suffering (passion) of Jesus culminating on Good Fri, -Passiontide, remembering the last terrible days of Jesus’ life. The remembering of an innocent and good man suffering unjustly is a powerful force but there is more to this than that. The Passion of Jesus has always interested, even preoccupied, his followers; from the very beginning they have loved to retell, even relive, those events. [Continue Reading]
Photo: David Kato Memorial Service, Trinity College Chapel
24 February 2011
Dr Richard O'Leary (centre), co-founder of Changing Attitude Ireland, pictured at the memorial service for David Kato, former Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, in Trinity College Chapel, with Colin McCormick and the Revd Canon Mark Gardner, Vicar, St Patrick's Cathedral Group of Parishes. [Continue Reading]
Photo: “Listening process” meeting with Bishop Ken Good in Derry
8 February 2011
Bishop Ken Good with CAI Committee members Paul Rowlandson and Gerry Lynch. [Continue Reading]
