Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, we regret to inform you that we are unable to proceed with the online section of this Sunday's Cathedral Forum. The Forum will be maintained in person and we hope to see many of you there.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and are actively working to resolve the situation. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

For years, there has been talk of the importance of “unity” in the Anglican Communion, though it has never been quite clear what this means or on what it is built. Divisions, frictions, frustrations, and arguments are never far from the surface, and LGBTQIA people have often borne the brunt of this fight. The Episcopal Church was made the Communion’s scapegoat in the wake of Gene Robinson’s election as the church’s first openly gay bishop, and as more and more provinces look to the inclusion of LGBTQIA people, the questions have not gone away.

That unity is a call of Christ to His church is not in doubt – yet what might real, positive, hopeful unity look like in a Communion that is much in need of decolonisation and reimagining? How might unity become a marker of intersectionality and not a tool of structural violence? How might we regain a sense of what it means to be Episcopalian – and Anglican? Join us this week as we welcome the Rev. Charlie Bell to explore these issues. A priest and forensic psychiatrist, Charlie is the author of Unity: Anglicanism’s ‘impossible dream’? (SCM Press, 2024).

Our Cathedral Forum series provides occasions to discuss topics ranging from politics to spirituality, economics, and literature, with fascinating guest speakers. The Forum seeks to help parishioners deepen their understanding of Christian faith and life, drawing on scripture, reason and tradition to understand its relevance to our lives and to our world, attentive to God's hand in the co-evolution of our world and of our church.