Over the coming months, we intend to make a small selection of books and publications available for sale online.
We will make available important but difficult-to-source texts relating to Christianity and homosexuality and also books written by our members.
We are launching this service with “The Service of My Love: The Celebration and Blessing of Civil Partnerships”. Published by Cairns Publications in 2009, this exquisite, cloth bound, 114 page hard back volume has been written by Rev Jim Cotter, a founding member of LGCM.
The Service of My Love has been written of in the following terms:
We live in a society where it is legal to enter into a civil partnership between two people of the same sex, but where it is still against the rule book of the churches to celebrate and bless such a partnership. The arguments have been won in some parts of the churches and blessings have been taking place more or less beneath the radar. But many people yearn for more openness and honesty.
This book is addressed to a couple, ‘Pat’ and ‘Chris’, who come to their minister seeking a blessing; it sets the scene with five perspectives — pastoral, personal, ministerial, ecclesiastical and theological, and ethical — and provides liturgical resources, hymns and prayers for such an occasion.
If The Service of my Love can be talked about by clergy and couples, in local church groups and among people who can influence policies, it may help to advance the cause of justice and even help us to relax and laugh together.
Purchases can be made in one of the following ways:
1. Call the office on 020 7739 1249 and we will take your debit or credit card details. We accept the following cards: Maestro, Solo, Visa, Electron, Mastercard and JCB.
2. Send a cheque or postal order made payable to ‘LGCM’ to the National Office: LGCM, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, LONDON, E2 6HG, UK.
3. By using the secure online payment system, Paypal.
Please allow 7-10 days for delivery. For environmental reasons we use previously-used envelopes as far as possible.