Saturday 10 February 2007

Inclusive Church seeks £100,000 for campaign against Conservatives

So that InclusiveChurch can really make a case for an open, broad and inclusive Anglican Communion. We need the resources to be able to make a real contribution to the preparations for the Lambeth Conference, and be at the Conference itself. We need at least a small office and a General Secretary. �100,000 will enable us to have the resources we need for the next 2 years. We won�t ask for funding again within 2 years, if this appeal is successful.

Who we�re up against.

We find ourselves up against people who, quite simply, insist on excluding themselves from the most inclusive church that has ever been. That is not, of course, how they would put it. On the contrary, they keep on wanting to exclude others from the church. They call themselves names like �Reform�. They issue grand-sounding Covenants. But in the end, they want to slam their church doors shut. They don�t want women priests, they certainly don�t want women bishops. As for gays, it seems that they don�t want them in church, or in the community, or in the country, or on earth.

We aren�t saying that everyone should think the same.

We are saying we believe the church should have room for a breadth of views and a breadth of people. We value diversity because it is God given. Read more

Ed: those ?s are in the original post!

No comments: