Ray Gaston

CofE Urban Parish Priest. Inclusive Orthodoxy.
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[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

Reclaiming Orthodoxy for Affirming Anglicanism https://t.co/0RtkQOk63s

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@Rgt71Robert I agree Robert but would want to take the establishment argument in the opposite direction. Those who argue against SSM are largely against the open charism that establishment can foster. Establishment as a 'Broad & Living Way' is a reason for SSM and built on our ecclesiology

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

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[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@Heccles94 In 2025 survey of British Jews 75% said they feel positively emotionally attached to Israel 64% of British Jews openly identify themselves as Zionist only 12% identify as anti Zionist. You need to talk to more Jewish people and get out of your bubble mate.

[Rabbi Charley @RabCharley]

The amendment to safeguard Jewish members was defeated: 684 in favour, 1,026 against. More than a thousand delegates voted against those protections.
This is a deliberate rejection of Jewish members’ right to participate without discrimination. A party that votes against protecting Jews while debating whether their self-determination is racist is practising the racism it claims to oppose.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

After the “Zionism is Racism” UN motion spearheaded by the Soviet Bloc & Arab League in 1975 (repealed in 1990), there was a concentrated campaign at universities around the UK to ban Jewish societies.

Not Israel societies.
Jewish societies.

We know where stuff like this leads.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

"To read Matthew well today is to hold together two truths: first, that Matthew is a profoundly Jewish Gospel; and second, that its reception history includes some of the most damaging misuses of Scripture in Christian-Jewish relations."
https://t.co/jIuK7tlILg

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@wyclif @churchofengland Requested by the Church of Pakistan maybe talk to them about why they wanted it. Yes it was handled badly but I'm not convinced the outrage is not more about scoring points than genuine concern when you have little detail about the context and the persecuted church's request

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@wyclif @churchofengland No they bestowed their own and they nominated him for the award. I guess my point is to be careful that culture wars rhetoric and point scoring dies not trump solidarity with the persecuted Church

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@MarkElliottSmi1 The post has been vacant since the late and excellent Revd Dr Richard Sudworth left the post shortly before he died. He was an expert in Christian - Muslim relations and as I understand has not been replaced.

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

The Ashrafi story has shown the ABC needs a strong adviser on interfaith. Very sadly, the Revd Dr Richard Sudworth, who served in this role for 7 years, died last year. An expert on Christian-Muslim relations and parish priest, he also received an award last week, posthumously.

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@MadsDavies AMEN!

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@cath_cov It's worth noting that there has been a vacancy in the Archbishops Advisor in interreligious relations for sometime now. Both this and the synod debacle demonstrate how such a post is needed

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@BremenBod Haha

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@BremenBod No not about that, more a contemporary Maurician perspective about CofE embracing it's Charism

[Ray Gaston @RevdRay]

@RangersTruth Prefer Lennon to Mulgrew Hutton and Lennon have better convo between them and yes far better than Boyd and Sutton