{"id":29540,"date":"2025-11-01T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=29540"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:57:15","slug":"chaplains-here-to-support-lgbtqia-community-a-message-from-bishop-gavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=29540","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains here to support LGBTQIA+ community &#8211; a message from Bishop Gavin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recognise the recent news regarding the<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=a6ff20c38e&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">House of Bishops on the Living in Love and Faith process<\/a> <\/em>will be received differently by different people, and that for many this&nbsp;news will be devastating, especially for numerous LGBTQIA+ people whom it affects directly.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like someone to have a conversation with and help process your thoughts and feelings, you are welcome to get in touch with one of the diocesan LGBTQIA+ chaplains.<\/p>\n<p>The chaplaincy service is a safe space and welcomes everyone. The chaplains are here for you.<\/p>\n<p>A chaplain will listen and support you, and be alongside you in what you&#8217;re feeling and thinking. They can meet you online or in person.&nbsp;If you&#8217;d like, they can pray with you,&nbsp;although this is not obligatory.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the service and how to get in touch with a chaplain <a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=bc087c9f99&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2F14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290%2Fimages%2Facf9066b-d418-529f-74a0-948404f71c15.jpg&amp;t=1761992761&amp;ymreqid=47280fb7-69b7-9a46-1c84-f000c801df00&amp;sig=1ThGj3uhSi7xaAqPuD2igw--~D\" width=\"250\" height=\"51\"><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Gavin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recognise the recent news regarding the&nbsp;House of Bishops on the Living in Love and Faith process will be received differently by different people, and that for many this&nbsp;news will be devastating, especially for numerous LGBTQIA+ people whom it affects directly. If you\u2019d like someone to have a conversation with and help process your thoughts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,372,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-diocesan-news","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions\/29541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}