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Living in Love and Faith Resources

The LLF process produced different types of resources for exploring questions around identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage. Some of these resources are linked below, but many more are available through the LLF Hub.

Living in Love and Faith

Living in Love and Faith Book

The Living in Love and Faith book sets out to inspire people to think more deeply about what it means to be human and to live in love and faith with one another. It tackles the tough questions and the divisions among Christians about what it means to be holy in a society in which understandings and practices of gender, sexuality and marriage continue to change.

Living in Love and Faith: The Course

Living in Love and Faith: The Course aims to help Christians think more deeply about what it means to be human.

It provides a structured and accessible way for local groups to engage in and reflect on Living in Love and Faith, a major exploration of Christian teaching and learning about identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage.

Graphic of the LLF book Listening with Love and Love

Listening with Love and Faith

Gathered responses from churchwide engagement with the LLF materials.

Friendship and the Body of Christ

A Living in Love & Faith resource for reflection and conversation.

Theological and Legal Advice on LLF

The advice to date from the Faith and Order Commission and their Episcopal Reference Group, and the Legal Advice has been published in four synod papers. Please note each of these documents deal in different ways with sensitive and deeply felt personal questions for the Church, especially in the lives of LGBTQI+ Christians and their families.

The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God (GS Misc 1429)

The Nature of Doctrine and the Living God (GS Misc 1429) responds to the request for advice on the nature of doctrine and whether it develops

The Doctrine of Marriage and the Prayers of Love and Faith: Texts and Contexts (GS Misc 1430)

The Doctrine of Marriage and the Prayers of Love and Faith: Texts and Contexts (GS Misc 1430) explores questions related to the use of the Prayers of Love and faith in regularly scheduled and ‘bespoke’ (i.e., standalone) services.

The Exercise of Discipline and Clergy Exemplarity in the Church of England: The Case of Same Sex Civil Marriages (GS Misc1431)

The Exercise of Discipline and Clergy Exemplarity in the Church of England: The Case of Same Sex Civil Marriages (GS Misc1431) responds to the request for advice to allow ‘the House of Bishops to agree a timetable for consideration of the question of clergy entering same-sex civil marriages’ (GS 2386, p. 2).

Living in Love and Faith: Legal Advice September 2025 (GSMisc1432)

Living in Love and Faith: Legal Advice September 2025 (GSMisc1432). This paper outlines various routes for introducing new liturgy and potential routes that could enable clergy same sex marriage.