Description
In February 2017, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York proposed the commissioning of 'a large-scale teaching document around the subject of human sexuality'. After three years of work by a multidisciplinary team, a suite of resources was published in November 2020 as Living in Love and Faith. In commending the resources, the Bishops of the Church of England invited people across the Church to use them to listen and learn together with others in faith. Listening with Love and Faith aims to gather what has emerged from this churchwide engagement regarding questions of identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage. It seeks to offer a faithful, accurate and evidenced account of the responses to the LLF questionnaire, the focus groups and the creative responses submitted by participants in a variety of forms. The publication of Listening with Love and Faith marks the beginning of the final stage of the LLF journey: discernment leading to decisionmaking about a way forward. By means of this report, the views, prayers and stories of those who have participated in the LLF process will accompany the bishops as they attend to the Scriptures and seek to discern what the Spirit is saying to the Church of England at this time.