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about sharedconversations sharedconversations reflecting on sexuality and gender identity in the church of england skip to content home about about i m helen king and i m an authorised lay preacher in the diocese of oxford back in 2015 i was selected as one of my diocese s participants in the regional shared conversations the church of england ran as part of its response to the pilling report in oxford diocese where i live and work the bishop asked for volunteers so i wrote in and offered other dioceses chose their participants in other ways in spring 2016 i took part in one of the three day residential events which every diocese has now experienced links to the shared conversations documents and the pilling report are on http www sharedconversations org and https www churchofengland org media 1891063 pilling_report_gs_1929_web pdf health warning the pilling report is a long one the shared conversations operated under the st michael s house protocols so i can only talk in very general terms about the experience and focus on my own reactions however the protocols also asked us to share what had happened and it s in that spirit that i have offered my thoughts before and after the event and around the issues of human sexuality which we re exploring this includes making connections between the way my church reacts to sexuality and what was then my day job as a professor of classical studies it would be odd if it didn t after the shared conversations i was asked to join the history group working on the living in love and faith llf process this in a different way was as difficult as the shared conversations in the church of england many expectations of llf are not going to be met it s not going to sort out questions like whether the marriage of two people of the same sex can happen in church or whether people in active i hate that word sexual relationships can be trained for priesthood and then ordained as the process shifted from 2017 to 2020 it became clear that the original idea of a bishops teaching document was being replaced by a set of resources about sexuality and gender identity with a view to individuals and parishes then using these over another few years not surprisingly this has been seen as kicking the issues into the long grass in february 2020 with a colleague from the history group i wrote a piece for the via media blog on the release of a pastoral statement by the bishops which seemed to ignore all the warnings the rest of us were heeding about not preempting the materials of llf in november 2020 i wrote an invited piece for the modern church blog about my experiences of llf at the end of 2021 i was elected as one of nine lay representatives for oxford diocese to the general synod on a liberal or progressive platform i soon became vice chair of the general synod gender sexuality group gsgsg which then merged with another group to become together for the church of england and that s where i am now with a little burst of extra llf 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