Latest letter from The Alliance

Posted on October 24, 2024 
Filed under Church of England

On Tuesday, The Alliance sent this letter to the House of Bishops of the Church of England, prior to their meeting yesterday:

“Dear Archbishops and Bishops,

Thank you so much for the generous invitation to pre circulate a letter to the House of Bishops ahead of your meeting on Wednesday.

We continue to lament the pastoral pain and division the current LLF debate and its subsequent direction of travel is causing to the fabric of the Church of England at a local, national and global level, and at deep personal cost to many on all sides of the debate.

We gratefully welcome this opportunity to communicate the scale of pain and confusion felt by those we represent while seeking to bring clarity about who the Alliance represents and what we are prayerfully seeking to achieve for the sake of the future flourishing of the whole church in our nation. We humbly appeal to each of you to seek to understand us and, in your episcopal leadership as focal points of Christ’s unity, to find a way to support those we represent. …”

– Read the full letter here on The Alliance website.