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Morality and Message: The Church of England, Young People, and LGBT Issues

July 7, 2017

The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this week and – as many people have pointed out – many …

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Surpassing the Love of Riseholme: The Bible and Mapp and Lucia’s Memorial Sermon

May 21, 2016

The memorial service held for Mapp and Lucia in their eponymous novel by E.F. Benson is a brilliant piece of …

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Miss Pettigrew and the Provincial Lady: Women Looking at Women

February 20, 2016

Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …

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Adam and Steve Created He Them: Thoughts on Gender, Sexuality and Genesis 1

February 11, 2016

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created …

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Speak Its Name, by Kathleen Jowitt

February 5, 2016

“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …

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“That’s what I’m looking for, sweetheart” – The Hunger Games, Sexuality and Media

December 12, 2015

When I first read The Hunger Games a year or so ago, I was expecting a critique of modern media …

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What Is The “Gay Lifestyle”?

August 7, 2015

Hillsong Church have recently brought out a press release denying that they let gay people take leadership positions in their …

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Family Values: Puritans and Postmodernism in 90s Slasher Movies

May 14, 2013

The nineties saw something of a renewal in horror movies, as the bloated old franchises such as Halloween, Friday 13th …

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Danse Macabre: Matthew Bourne’s Gothic Sleeping Beauty

May 11, 2013

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work.  Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the classic narrative to produce …

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Malvolio and Georgie: Twelfth Night Meets Mapp and Lucia

April 28, 2013

Rewatching Trevor Nunn’s remarkable film of Twelfth Night, I noticed a detail I’d never seen before.  Well, two details, to …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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