JUNE 1st-7th is Volunteers’ Week, and this year’s theme is ‘A Time To Say Thanks’. The Open Table Network wouldn’t - and couldn’t - exist without the volunteers who give energy, time and talents, across England and Wales. All of our Trustees and Patrons do the same. So we want to thank them all for making OTN what it is today.
IN the first of a series of reflections for Pride Month, our trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm shares how his queerness has made him a better student, a better Christian, and a better human.
IN THE SEVENTH of our Q&A webinars with our new Patrons, Barbara Glasson, former President of the Methodist Conference in Britain, was in conversation with our Co-ordinator, Kieran Bohan.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND House of Bishops met this week to discuss ‘the formation of a working group on gender identity and transition’ despite extensive work already included in the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) resources on Identity, Sexuality, Relationships and Marriage. Our Co-Chair Alex Clare-Young responds.
A COMPLAINT has been made against the leader of the Open Table London community, who supported a young woman ousted from a lay leadership position at a neighbouring church, after she came out as a lesbian. Our Coordinator Kieran Bohan responds.
WHEN the Premier Christianity website published an article against same-sex marriage last month, Dr Charlie Bell, Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and ordinand at St Augustine’s College of Theology, offered to write a reply, which they agreed to publish. Later he was told that ‘website issues have made this impossible’. Here is his reply to the Premier article:
WE’RE DELIGHTED to share the news that a long-term supporter of Open Table has been recommended to begin training for ordination in the Church of England.
AS IT’S Deaf Awareness Week (3rd-9th May 2021) we’ve invited Rev Cathy Nightingale, Deaf Chaplain in the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, and co-founder of Open Table North Manchester, to step into the spotlight.
ON THURSDAY 6th May 2021, the parish where Open Table began joins international movement for reconciliation whose priorities are: - Healing the wounds of history, - Learning to live with difference and celebrate diversity, & - Building a culture of peace.
What does a pop song by a black gay man have to do with the experience of racist exclusion in the Church? Our trustee Augustine Tanner-Ihm explores from personal experience.
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