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]
