By Subject: RELIGION
Christianity, churches and organisations, subdivided by:
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- A priest’s lost week-end
- The problem of homosexuality: report by clergy and doctors
- Detective called on a curate
- Magistrate stops case against archdeacon
- Dr.Rumble writes to The Truth
- Letter: Homosexual acts, by C Taylor
- Letter: Homosexual acts, by Simon Raven
- Letter: [headline missing], by J Hawkes
- Letter; Wolfenden Report, by A E Dyson
- This isn't a game replied the policeman
- Plan to allow remarriage [damaged copy]
- Wolfenden plan on homosexuality: rejected by Scottish Assembly
- Scots church changes its divorce rule [damaged copy]
- Vice probe by Church Welfare Council
- Letter: Wolfenden Report, by A E Dyson
- The Ripon scandal
- Homosexuality not a matter for law - Methodists
- Methodists condemn A.I.D.
- Twisted sex - not a matter for law: Methodists’ vote
- Methodists discuss bombs, both ethical and nuclear
- Pervert “can pose as unhappy man”: professor on court use of psychiatrist
- The Savonarola of St Mary’s
- Letter: Wolfenden report, by Robert, Bishop of Exeter
- Vice
- Right and wrong [editorial]
- Low moral tone of society in Britain today: Welsh primate’s criticism of Wolfenden report (FrPa)
- Letter: Wolfenden report, by F H A Kempe
- Letter: The Wolfenden Report, by C H Cleal
- Letters [2]: Wolfenden report, by C A Coulson & 4 others
- Apportioning guilt in vice: Sir J. Wolfenden’s view
- Attacks after vice report: “obscene” letters
- Letter: Viewpoint on vice, by ‘Ex-convict’
- After Wolfenden, by “A Student of Politics” [At Westminster]
- Letter: After Wolfenden, by A Hallidie-Smith, HLRS
- Letter: Homosexuality and the law, by R Elwes
- Letter: Clubs for homosexuals, by A Hallidie-Smith, HLRS
- Student talks of night at the manse
- Chaplain - individual advice
- Letter: Denying our Christian heritage, by L Marsh
- Letter: (headline missing), by 'W.S.'
- Letter: Primate's view of sin and crime:
- Letter: Primate's view of sin and crime:
- Letter: Wolfenden Report controversy, by Rev J Hedley Thatcher
- “Christianity and the homosexual”
- Law on homosexuality ‘encourages blackmail’
- Law on homosexuality unjust, says priest
- ‘Encourages blackmail’
- Towards a Quaker View of Sex, by 11 authors
- Letter: homosexuality, by R Butler, R Gregson, R G Moorcroft
- Letter: Wolfenden echo, by C Allen
- Letter: homosexuality, by J Kohn
- Letter: Homosexuality, by A Hallidie Smith
- Letter: Many corrupted, by “Anti-Homo”
- Letter: ‘Worthy of a theologian’, by Canon T J Moyihan
- Letter: Public service, by C Hardy
- Letter: A duty, by “Moderation”
- Letter: homosexuality, by D A Rhymes
- The vicar has written to his MP
- Morality and the homosexual
- Clinical theology conference
- More grants by Gulbenkian Foundation
- £1,000 to help homosexuals
- Commanded to be sounded [book review] by B Wootton
- Law and morals [book review] by W F Deedes
- Law and morals [book review] by H L A Hart
- Morality and the law [book review] by Sir J Wolfenden
- Christian morals and law, by “Rover”
- [headline missing]
- Archdeacon to resign
- Menace of sexual slackness
- Nation under two standards [? Editorial - part missing]
- Sex and books, by D W Harding
- Letter: Church, law, and morality, by S MacKintosh
- ‘No evidence that vicar corrupted’
- Bishop attacks ‘medieval’ vice law
- Homosexuality laws “odious”: bishop’s criticism
- Medieval treatment of homosexuals: call for reform, “odious hypocrisy” attached
- The death of a baby [column: Monica Furlong]
- Letter: [no title], by R Pecorini
- Here’s the answer
- Homosexuals and the law [editorial]
- Chastity and charity - by the Quakers
- Towards a Quaker view of sex; review by J Ousted
- Letter: Facing facts, by A Grey
- Sympathy and sex, by eleven Quakers
- ‘Glory and tragedy in waywardness of love’, 11 Quakers attack moral hypocrisy
- The two voices of the Quakers
- Quaker group rejects church view of sex: changing pattern of morals
- Quaker group’s plea on sex: more toleration
- Homosexual love not evil, say Quakers
- Editorial: Inconvenient morality
- Proposition: Inside every man and woman..... Proof: The Quaker bombshell on sex
- Letter: “A Quaker view of sex”, by R and E Hodgkin
- Quakers follow up Reith lectures
- Quaker point of view
- Quaker report on sex raises storm
- Facts of life
- The boring subject
- Quaker report ‘more likely to weaken’ morals
- ‘Glory and tragedy in waywardness of love’
- ‘Vile affections’
- [column: Malcolm Muggeridge]
- The Quaker pamphlet
- Traditional morality code “should go”
- Sex in a Christian context
- What the Bishop tells his children [Atticus column]
- Search for a new moral code [All this talk about sex: 4], by L Gladstone-Millar Ma
- “Utterly wrong” to denounce Christian image of God
- Canon’s plea for the homosexuals
- News on sexual morality, by K Lonsdale
- Rector attacks clergy and newspapers: “accelerating nationwide moral landslide”
- Column: Maylord’s musings
- Letter: Homosexuality and its problems, by Rev S E Pulford
- Editorial: Divorce, sin and the law
- Bishop on ‘odious hypocrisy’
- Letters (3): Charitable attitudes to social problem, by A F Blunden and 2 anon
- ‘Pain and damage’ from the pulpit
- Letter: Law is too harsh, by Rev K Bishop
- Only Christian talent?, by Lord Altringham
- He’s celebrating on a tour
- ‘New morality’ decadent claim
- Letter: Dr. Perkins and New Morality, by J F Cook
- “New Morality” treachery to nation, declares Helston headmaster
- Britain sexually sick, says Bishop
- Bishop rules out resolution criticizing B.B.C. morals
- ‘Society sexually sick’ says bishop: radio and TV criticised
- The Quaker view of sex
- no title
- School head hits at ‘new morality’
- [headline missing], by R Pitman
- An attempt to set the record straight, by Canon W Garlick
- Guiding youth to Christian loving, by J Beattie
- Right attitudes to affection, by J Beatie
- The root of all evil?
- Helping the homosexual
- Promiscuous young people
- I suppose I could forgive these people who claim a direct line to God, but..., by M Furlong
- Does he agree? [?editorial]
- Churches’ move on homosexual law: approach to Home Secretary
- Homosexuality laws change?
- Letter: Four questions on homosexuality, by J B Lawlow
- Letter: Christianity in the classroom, by L H Bishop
- Christian view of homosexuality, by (?)
- Quakers modify report on sex
- Letter: Let’s talk straight, by ‘Believer’
- Pocket cartoon by Osbert Lancaster
- Why is it that the devout are so often lacking in compassion? by M Furlong
- Wolfenden Part Two, by N St John-Stevas
- Where has all the love gone? by M Furlong
- No B.B.C. censorship a la MRA please! by R Bossence
- Bishops to speak on homosexuality
- New plea for homosexuals
- Make this law, urge bishops
- Peers law reform
- Homosexual law change supported
- Favours law change on homosexuality
- Homosexual acts are ‘wrong’ – says Archbishop
- Problems and trials of a large minority, by P Welsby
- Case of the 22 missing bishops, by M Furlong
- Letter: Homosexuality, by S Pulford
- Letter: Moral leaders, by H G Lewis
- These vices are not caused by a disease… says the Journal Padre
- Letter: Vicar denounces homosexuality, by S E Pulford
- Letter: Homosexuality, by S H Taylor
- Letter: Homosexuality, by ‘Tohunga’
- Letter: Debasing the church, by O.R.R.
- Letter: Homosexuals and the law, by E F Davis
- Bishops seek Arran’s Bill changes
- Letter: Homosexuals, by R S Lawrence
- ‘The law is an ass’: vicar speaks out on homosexuality
- Letter: St. Paul in context, by L J Marsh
- Letter: Homosexuality and the Church, by R W H Nind
- The Church does not support the Archbishops, by Lord Brocket
- Primates want changes in homosexual
- Homosexuality: Northern opinion, by Canon K Bishop
- Letter: Homosexuality, by D J Blood
- Letter: Church not upholding standards, by ‘O.R.R.’
- Homosexuality, by W Dempsey
- Homosexualiity abominable, but I support Bill – Primate
- Whither the church?
- Letter: Homosexuality, by P Hall
- Letter: The word of bishops, by G Goyder
- Letter: Christianity and homosexuality, by J Brown
- Letter: The bible says…, by C G Barrett
- Letter: The bible says…, by G F Corney
- The sin of Sodom, by D Wilkerson
- Letter: ‘We preach cure’, by D Howland
- Letter: This supposed sickness, by ‘Common sense’
- Letter: Wrong instruction, by ‘Son of the logos’
- Letter: Counsel for every problem, by J Stevenson
- Letter: The word of bishops, by Kenneth (Bishop of) Lincoln
- Letter: An abomination? by ‘Enlightened Christian’
- Letter: Benefactors not criminals, by ‘Ajax’
- Letter: Homosexuals, by F Archer
- Letter: Homosexuality, by H J Barclay
- Letter: To remove law would harm society, by S Morris
- Letter: Homosexuality, by J Wallace
- Letter: Homosexuality, by E Moss
- Letter: Homosexuals, by C E B Cowburn
- Letter: Silence that disturbs by ‘P.K.’
- Letter: Quotations from the Bible, by J Edsall-Allen
- Letter: A Christian view, by T S Gibson
- Homosexuality defended by vicar: ‘write to me’ plea for more understanding
- Letter: Homosexuality, by B Davies
- Letter: Homosexuals, by F Archer
- Primate is accused in the Lords
- A vicar’s views on a human problem
- Letter: homosexuality, by G Taylor
- Letter: Homosexuality, by S Morris
- Letter: homosexuality, by W Brooks
- Peer rebukes Archbishop
- Primate’s speech on sex Bill attacked by peer
- Letter: honest to man, by Herbert J Barclay
- Letter: Christians and reformers, by Marjorie Mepham
- Letter: we accept the facts but . . ., by W F V Howland
- Letter; homosexual practices, by Oliver Marlow
- Punishing of homosexuals: feeding in C. of E. for law reform
- Birth control and R.C. Church: methods causing concern
- Church not against birth control – Cardinal
- Letter: homosexuality, by Antony Grey
- Confrontation at lunch-time
- Letter: “Chastity is private matter”: is sex sin when you can’t afford to wed?, by R A Wickham
- Letter, by A E Adiar
- The Church and the homosexual, by Mervyn Dickinson
- Letter: the homosexual Bill, by A J Moxon
- Worship: pop prayer
- Letter: MRA and television, by Alan Williams
- Rector condemns homosexual habits
- Letter: homosexuality or sodom, by C C D
- Letter: an affront to the creator, by L Hurst
- Execute homosexuals church paper advises
- Letter: homosexuals, by Harold T Barrow
- Letter: charity and moral law, by Freda Rees
- Letter: charity and moral law, by Mona Krupp
- Letter: charity and moral law, by Quentin de la Bedoyere
- Letter: homosexuality, by Rev. David J Blood
- The ‘answers’ to youthful morality
- Dr. Ramsay attacks abortion clause
- Must I bury another man because of this hypocrisy and humbug?, by the Bishop of Southwark the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood
- Many bishops back homosexual plea
- MP attacks primate over views on sex
- Letter: Baptist church and sexual offences bill, by H Allan Mawby
- Answer, Dr. Ramsay
- Bishop to give convicted parson another chance
- Letter: was the Bishop too flippant?, by G F Mason
- Letter: was the Bishop too flippant?, by Rev Fred Meager
- What I told MP, by Dr Ramsey
- Convicted clergy: primate explains
- Convicted clergy: Dr Ramsey replies
- Presbytery oppose homosexual bill
- Primate replies to M. P. on convicted clergy
- Convicted clergy: the Primate replies, by John Redfern
- Sex bill: Primate explains
- Clergy: Dr. Ramsay explains
- Something the law can’t do, by Ross MacMaster
- Baptists oppose bill, says M.P.
- Letter, by R J Webb, Chairman of Police Federation
- Letter: homosexuals and the law, by Michael Clark Hutchinson
- Convicted clergyman
- Primate attacked in homosexual debate: House of Commons
- All will be well if those who govern are righteous
- Letter: homosexuality, by A W Chapman
- Free Presbyterians attack sex bill
- Protests over sex bill: proposals of God-provoking nature’
- Free Kirk deplore new bill
- Free Church in protest on sex bill
- Sexual Offences Bill: Free Church criticism
- Church warning on sex bill
- Letter: homosexuality, by T R Hansford (Pastor)
- Letter: gross sin, by M J Withers
- Not a sin, by Heterosexual
- Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by David Sandison
- Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by Eileen Bent
- Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by C D Grainger
- Letter: condemned because they are made differently, by Catholic Mother
- Letter: setting ourselves above God, by Gerard H Blum
- Letter: homosexuals and the law, by A E G Wright
- (The Church and Humphry Berkeley’s Sexual Offences Bill)
- A Christian comment, by Bexley Council of Churches
- Homosexuals
- Gospel in parliament
- Moral problems:1
- Letter: crime and sin, by Denis Geraghty
- Letter: crime and sin, by Canon Howard Marlow
- Free Church warn of ‘sin of sodom’: new bill deplored
- Letter: homosexuality, by A E Earl
- Letter; homosexuality, by Lucinda Hastings
- Letter: charity, by Blessed are the merciful
- Letter: what to read, by Mother of Three
- Letter: condemned, by James van de Linde
- Letter: it is a sin
- Nation is having a moral breakdown, says Free Churchmen: Prime Minister is asked to act
- Letter: confused, by W Corbishley
- Free Church morals plea to Premier
- Letter: irrelevant
- Letter: homosexuality, by Anonymous
- Letter: homosexuality, by Harold T Barlow
- Letter: ‘legislation will need to more sin’, by Florence L Baker
- Letter: morality, by Cynric Mytton-Davies
- Letter: stony hearts, by a compassionate Christian
- Homosexual law bill backed in Church newspaper
- Letter: maladjustment, by H Pennington
- Letter: law and homosexuals, by R F Broadfoot
- Letter: law and homosexuals, by F J Birkett
- Letter: law and homosexuals, by John Pitwell
- We’ve asked for it: if Britain should be destroyed like the Cities of the Plain . . ., by S E Pulford
- Let them feel shame: Spa vicar comments on homosexuality bill: ‘hiding’
- Anglian Prelate hits abortion bill
- (editorial comment on homosexuality and its causes)
- Danger of the ‘New Christianity’
- ‘The law is out of date’: homosexuality
- Law and morality
- Letter: totalitarian, by Oslena Stott
- Letter; homosexuality, by Robert C Durrant
- Contact, by Rev Arthur Connnop
- Preacher invites down-and-outs to pop session
- Letter: homosexuality, by F W Issac
- Letter: homosexuality, by Rt Rev P T Paget King
- Quote or not to quote?
- Letter: greater evil, by Pat Roberts
- Knocking the church
- Bishop on problems of homosexuals
- Don’t pass this sex bill, says Free Kirk
- The Bishop’s compassion
- Letter: Bishops back this baneful measure, by A E Lloyd
- Letter: a new role for The Church, by M N France, Anglican Chaplain to the University of Essex
- Letter: the Quaker view, by Geoffrey Weeden
- Homosexuals, drinkers need help of churches: Conference decides
- Bishop on sex law reform
- Acts the Church still condemns
- Homosexuality is not condoned: Bishop on Church’s attitude
- Bishop of Exeter puts case for sex law reform: but Church still condemns homosexual activities, Diocesan conference told
- “Too little guidance on everyday problems: U.F. Church assembly
- Lords pass sex bill: smallest majority: Primate backs appeal for time in Commons
- Letter, by B G V Crozier-Cole
- Letter, by M G Payne
- Letter: degrading, by W B Wilson
- Backed by bishops
- Letter: proper name?, by M Hutchinson
- Need to face new moral decisions
- Letter: Christ and his disciples, by P B
- Will Church accept these men?
- ‘Disintegration of morals’ – Bishop
- Bishop urges forum on moral code
- ‘Forum on behaviour standards needed’
- Bishop wants forum on moral standards
- Public standards forum urged
- Attitudes to homosexuals
- The Church and the homosexual: (2) can the Church help?, by Neil C. Fisher
- Letter: homosexuals, by Lydia J Crook
- (untitled article mentions Church support for gay reform)
- Why they protest
- Sex and sanity
- Letter: sex report, by Richard S Lawrence
- Accused Minister collapses in court
- Letter: wrong values?, by Geoffrey P T Paget King
- Letter: “an invasion of privacy” (name not published)
- Divorce can be best answer – minister
- Letter: dealing with the problem of the homosexual, by David Wood
- Letter: Homosexuality, by Douglas A Rhymes, Canon Librarian, Southwark Cathedral
- Letter: Passing Judgement, by Interested
- Letter: Passing Judgement
- Letter: Homosexuality, by J C Thomas
- F P Kirk hits out at vice bill
- Clean up the bible?
- God and the homosexual
- Homosexual law reform, by Norman St.John-Stevas
- British clergymen qualify “sex sin”
- Liberal views in reply to article
- Show goes on - a tribute to Dr Maxwell
- Letter: Problem of friendship, by non-heterosexual
- Letter: What does ‘loving your neighbour’ mean?, by feminine non-heterosexual
- A nettle grasped: teleview by Joan McGarry
- Letter: There is an answer for homosexuality, by Rev F J Stewart, BD
- Letter: Church and the law, by J M Reid
- Letter: Is cure possible?, by non-heterosexual
- Letter: Shaken out of smugness, by Mrs D S Dick
- The church’s responsibility towards the homosexual, by D A Rhymes
- Homosexual seeks monastery place
- Letter: church criticised, by E G Christian
- Letter: not all churchmen happy about Mr. Abse’s bill, by Rev. Philip Hobbs
- Letter: fitting the bible to the law, by H Cole
- Is this why Christ never married? – Canon
- Canon’s startling speech on the life of Christ
- Christ was always an “outsider”
- Canon’s theory rejected (Hugh Montefiore and his speculation as to whether Christ was gay)
- Letter: Jesus’s view of Jesus, by A W Thompson
- Letter: Jesus’s view of Jesus, by R M
- Primate raps Canon over ‘nature of Christ’ speech, Michael Redfern
- The perfect man – by Dr Ramsey
- Primate rejects that slur on Jesus Christ
- Rap for the Canon in row over Jesus
- Dealings of Jesus “perfect”
- Homosexual theory on Christ rejected
- Ramsey opposes comment on Jesus
- Letter: Canon’s speech, by L D Woolford
- Dr Ramsey replies to views on Jesus
- John Gordon: current affairs
- Let's face it: what Montefiore said
- Letter: perfect man, by Lucilla S Lincolne
- Letter: Perfect man, by H J Parker
- Making it clear
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by Fredk C Dench
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by William Martin
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by L Reid
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by C C Norris
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by John Milligan
- Letter: subtle attack, by R D Greer
- Letter: explained, by Richard Spencer
- Afterthought: John Wells
- Homosexual Jesus – what Canon Montefiore said
- Letter: subtle attack, by Donal O’ Sullivan
- Ugly plot
- (Hugh Montefiore controversy; condemnation)
- Was Jesus an outsider?
- (Hugh Montefiore press coverage)
- Canon asks again: why did Jesus not marry?: ‘no less than perfect’
- Why didn’t Jesus wed? asks Canon
- Dean attacks Canon Montefiore’s views
- ‘Hysterical reaction’ to Canon’s view
- Magazine defends canon’s remarks
- News from Britain: Montefiore defended for theory on Jesus
- Canon Montefiore’s theory
- Canon accuses press
- Magazine favours study of homosexual Christ theory
- ‘Nonsense’, declares Canon
- Canon defends image of Christ
- A religious outburst for the Scilly season
- Hornet’s nest raised by Canon
- Letter: the message to Montefiore, by Isa Kenton
- Ugliest vice
- (John Gordon column: criticism of Church Times positive review of gay book)
- Canon forms club for ‘lonely men’
- Letter: homosexuality and the law, by Hugh H Wright
- ‘Talking’ clinic
- Letter: I think this club is misguided, by G Freeman
- Archbishop charged: Athens Tuesday
- Provost’s ‘no’ to ‘club’
- Letter: Canon’s move a chance to clear the air, by Mrs Freda Rees
- Clergyman’s report: it is a sin, by Very Rev. E L King, Dean of Cape Town
- Sin and the homosexual
- Letter: Homosexuality and the assembly, by ‘homosexual’
- Homosexuality debated by churchmen
- Letter: Homosexuality, by Cured
- Letter: Homosexuality and the assembly, by Rev. James J Stott
- Letter: Homosexuality, by homosexual
- Letter: Homosexuality, by J Harvey Macpherson
- Letter: Homosexuality
- Letter: Impossible question ,by Antony Grey
- Letter: Christian Ethics and the homosexual, by H P Rae
- Letter: Christian ethics and the homosexual, by H A Williams
- Letter: Homosexuals and the law, by John B McCoy
- Coming in from the cold: the homosexual in society
- Letter: Homosexuality, by L C Smith
- Letter: “answer me that Dr. Ramsay”: homosexual bill
- Letter: When capital punishment is justified
- Homosexuals say they are treated unfairly
- Letter: Homosexuality, by Fellow Sinner
- Letter: Homosexuality, by D I W
- Letter: Homosexuality, by M J P Dunlop
- Letter: Homosexuality not the greatest evil, by Rev J A Smart
- Sees need for research on homosexuality
- Father Lucius McClean, O.F.M and your problems: homosexual acts
- Letter: House of the lord, by Rev Derek Stirman
- Vicar plans chit-chats for sexual deviants
- Church plans to lend an ear
- Problems of clergy for review
- British humanists provoke the wrath of catholic teachers
- Homosexuality rise attacked by Vatican
- Vicar’s book snipes at moral bogies
- Chaplain sends a quiz on sex to top churchmen