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		<title>Reflections On Androgyny (3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many criteria according to which sex and gender can be defined, and distinctions between – loosely speaking – masculine and feminine polarities can be drawn up and also put into question. Where combinations of masculine and feminine are present, some are defining of androgyny, and some are not. The table below is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=43&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/reflections-on-androgyny-3/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Androgyny (2)</title>
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I realise that when I used the word &#8216;closet androgyne&#8217; to refer to myself in my last entry, that could have been construed as meaning I was a transvestite! I have in fact experimented in a minor, and indeed &#8216;closet&#8217; (i.e. secretive) manner, with cross-dressing; and it is possible that I might do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=41&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/reflections-on-androgyny-2/</link>
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		<title>Reflections On Androgyny (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally getting round to copying over into this blog a series of articles on my androgyny that previously appeared in a Yahoo 360 blog that has now been closed down. Here&#8217;s the first part:
  
I&#8217;m an androgyne. What does that mean? People often think of the terms &#8216;androgyne&#8217; and &#8216;androgyny&#8217; as referring only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=40&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/reflections-on-androgyny-1/</link>
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		<title>Twenty years of struggle and twenty years of faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the start of my journey in faith. On that day, a quite remarkable event – experienced as an immediate answer to prayer – gave me the gift of faith: instantly, like a light being switched on. It&#8217;s not my intention to tell that story here. Rather, I wish to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=38&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/twenty-years-of-struggle-and-twenty-years-of-faith/</link>
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		<title>Sexuality, Gender and Catholicism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a bisexual, transgender Catholic, I feel it incumbent upon me to comment on Pope Benedict&#8217;s recent remarks in which he is reported to have affirmed that homosexuality and transgenderism are at least as great a threat to the survival of humanity as climate change.
I have to admit that when I first heard the report [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=31&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/sexuality-gender-and-catholicism/</link>
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		<title>The Meaning of Suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds a bit portentous, that title: it&#8217;s a bit like saying &#8216;the meaning of life&#8217;. Indeed, if you were able to understand the &#8216;meaning of suffering&#8217;, then you probably would be a long way down the road to discovering the meaning of life.
It&#8217;s a natural reaction to natural or man-made disasters – like yesterday&#8217;s terrorist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=28&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/the-meaning-of-suffering/</link>
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		<title>Orientation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to think I must be missing some vital part of a normal psychological make-up that would enable me to connect with people at both a deeper emotional level and at the day-to-day level of trivial social interchange. And maybe I do lack this faculty and facility to this day. At a profound level, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=25&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The consecration of female bishops is a greater source of disunity than that of gay bishops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of my readers might be shocked to read such a statement from me. In which case, let me explain.
The Church of England yesterday voted to ordain women to the episcopate. The arguments against this decision were the classic Catholic ones: that there is no precedent or authority for the move, either in Scripture, Tradition, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=24&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-consecration-of-female-bishops-is-a-greater-source-of-disunity-than-that-of-gay-bishops/</link>
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		<title>GAFCON: Schism and the Repudiation of Homosexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How significant are differences in belief about openly gay clergy and church blessings of gay unions? Very significant if you consider that such things are said to form part of a &#8220;false gospel&#8221;, and have contributed to the formation of an alternative episcopal hierarchy in the Anglican Communion at the GAFCON conference, which ended in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=23&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/gafcon-schism-and-the-repudiation-of-homosexuality/</link>
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		<title>Gay Clergy Wedding: A Storm In a Vicarage Teacup?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is all the fuss that erupted yesterday over last month&#8217;s blessing of the gay civil partnership of two Church of England vicars just a storm in a teacup? Clearly not from the point of view of the many furious reactions from senior conservative figures in the Church. Some of these have called the ceremony blasphemous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bitranschristian.wordpress.com&blog=3288192&post=22&subd=bitranschristian&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bitranschristian.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/gay-clergy-wedding-a-storm-in-a-vicarage-teacup/</link>
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