Link below to read the sermon:

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

I was so blessed by the conversations after the service, and to hear the stories of those whom the church has rejected and abused - if you shared your story with me, I hope you felt seen and heard. 2/2

The journey has been beautiful, brutal and made all the more special by those who have surrounded her, and latterly us.

I can't wait to celebrate her tomorrow, and to (probably emotionally) mark the beginning of the next stage of her vocational journey and the end of her 5 years of training. 3/3

That day we didn't know many things. We didn't know we would end up together (let alone married!), we didn't know just how challenging her road to Ordination would be, and we didn't know that she would be called by a fantastic community in Bath to be their minister. 2/3

This session will be a chance to get a “taster” of the kind of thing we do every week! We’ll be focusing on the theme of bodies, and you’ll hear from a handful of our group members sharing different thoughts relating to trans theology and bodies, before we have some time for group discussion. 2/2

"In striving to live the redeemed life that Christ has in store for us we must also hold with us the pains of our broken state, as it is only through recognising our brokenness that we can begin to be reconciled with each other as well as with God." (3/3)

"When we look at the bravery of Coventry Cathedral and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in choosing to keep the painful reminders of their past alongside their current beautiful buildings it reminds us of the ways in which Christ calls us to reflect on and live out our lives." (2/3)

As a Christian Socialist I hope to be able to rejoin my natural home at some point in the future, but I believe that new leadership is now needed for the Party to once again be trusted by the LGBT+ community. 2/2