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OTN PATRON Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, is among 90 bishops who signed a statement saying ‘we believe that LGBT+ people are a precious part of God’s creation’ in response to a Call on Human Dignity at the Lambeth Conference of global Anglican leaders yesterday.

AS PART of the Christians At Pride service at Liverpool Cathedral last weekend, Sue Say, a member of Open Table Liverpool, offered this reflection on the theme ‘Come Together’, inspired by St Paul’s image of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-26).

THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE, a gathering of bishops from across the Anglican Communion for dialogue on church and world affairs, begins in Canterbury this week. Steven Shakespeare, author of Prayers for an inclusive church, calls out one of this year’s Lambeth Calls’ which claims express the common mind of the church but clearly doesn’t.

AT A PRIDE event hosted by a church in her diocese last weekend, OTN Patron Bishop Cherry Vann offered this reflection on the love of God in and for every one of us, without exception.

AT OUR Open Table Liverpool communion service this month, Revd Frances Skinner, a trans priest from the Diocese of Chester, shared this powerful sermon on the radical hospitality Jesus practiced which we are called to emulate.

FOR THE FIRST TIME in the Open Table Network, our community in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, hosted an informal and relaxed service of thanksgiving for the civil partnership of regular members CJ and Jake this month.

AT OUR national gathering last month, PhD researcher Peter Jones, whose research features stories of Open Table members, led a breakout group on ‘mapping sacred space’. Here Peter reflects on how the event was so much more than another research opportunity.

THE FINAL of Theology Slam 2022 - a competition to find engaging young voices who think theologically about the contemporary world - will feature a talk on the body by Revd Alex Clare-Young.

STARTING a conversation about supporting LGBTQ+ people within any faith setting can be tough, writes Will from Frontier Youth Trust. This is what happened when a #Christian youth work charity asked an #LGBTQ+ organisation to train Christian youth workers.

AS PRIDE MONTH ends and London Pride celebrates its 50th anniversary, gay Christian blogger Jonny Masters shares this short story to mark this milestone.