Скачать или смотреть A Priest's Honest Reckoning With Institutional Homophobia

In this conversation, I’m joined by Rev. Robert Thompson, a London priest, for an open and honest discussion about being gay, faith, and the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process and how the institution has fundamentally let down their LGBTQ+ community.

Together, we explore what it feels like to be “othered” in the church as a LGBTQ+ person, and why certain evangelical positions on same-sex marriage and gay clergy can echo the isolating dynamics often found in high-control or cult-like environments.

Rev. Robert brings pastoral insight, personal experience, and theological depth as we talk about:
-The human impact of exclusion within the Church
-The tensions surrounding LLF and the future of LGBTQ+ inclusion
-How faith communities can move from fear to compassion
-What real welcome and affirmation should look like

Whether you’re part of the Church, LGBTQ+, questioning your place in faith, or simply interested in how spirituality and identity intersect, this conversation invites reflection, empathy, and hope.

In this channel I look at spirituality and faith, meeting with people from my past, who have an interesting insight or expertise or people I simply find interesting and would love to learn more from them.

0:00 Intro
1:18 Homosexuality & Church LLF
5:28 Is the C of E simply a homophobic insitution?
8:46 Seen but not heard
11:40 Rob's spiritual development
20:35 Gay culture
21:50 What inspired Rob being set apart as different?
25:00 The church is more like a school classroom
30:25 There isn't a joint respect within the church
34:40 How did you vocation take shape?
41:30 Sex before marriage and homosexuality
52:15 Honesty and Safeguarding and Consent
1:00:00 when have you not been othered?
1:05:40 What about synod and the new Archbishop?

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