Category Archives: Neil Patterson

The Difficulties of Differentiation

by Revd Neil Patterson, Chair of the Gender & Sexuality Group on General Synod Followers of the increasingly torrid debate about sexuality in the Church of England will generally have noticed that the most prominent conservative group, the Church of … Continue reading

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Set Apart for the Good of Us All?

by Revd Neil Patterson, Chair of the Gender & Sexuality Group on General Synod Like a small number of (male) ordinands in the Church of England, I had the privilege during my training of spending a semester at the Venerable … Continue reading

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Time for the Church to Come Out

by Revd Neil Patterson, Chair of the Gender & Sexuality Group on General Synod Since the draft resources for same-sex couples were published on the 21st February (GS2289) I have read a great deal of comment on them, mostly understandably … Continue reading

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Bread or a Stone?

by Revd Neil Patterson and Professor Helen King, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Gender & Sexuality Group on General Synod Throughout the slow and painful progress of debate about same-sex relationships in the Church of England, we have both often … Continue reading

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Ways and Means of Differentiation…

by the Revd Neil Patterson, Director of Vocations & Ordinands in the Diocese of Hereford and Chair of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group The debate on sexuality in the Church of England is in a curious place as … Continue reading

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Equal Marriage: The Argument Has Moved On…

by the Revd Neil Patterson, Director of Vocations & Ordinands in the Diocese of Hereford and Chair of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group Readers of this blog may recall that in 2021 I wrote about the motion passed … Continue reading

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General Synod: What Would Compromise Look Like?

by the Revd Neil Patterson, Director of Vocations & Ordinands in the Diocese of Hereford and Vice-Chair of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group A number of commentators, including Simon Butler, Helen King and Charlie Bell, have taken the … Continue reading

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Sex, Lies & Voting Records

by the Revd Neil Patterson, Director of Ordinands, Hereford Diocese and Member of General Synod The thoughts leading to this post arose a little while ago as my partner David and I enjoyed watching A Very English Scandal, the dramatization … Continue reading

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