Other voices, other worlds: The global Church speaks out on homosexuality. Terry Brown, ed.  Darton-Longman and Todd, 2006. £14.99. The Anglican churches worldwide are said to be sharply divided north and south over the question of homosexuality. This book exposes this idea as a myth. Christians in Africa, Asia and throughout the developing world – bishops, priests and religious, academics and lay writers – open up dramatic new perspectives on familiar arguments and debates. They show that our understanding of sexuality has been narrow, inflexible and unimaginative. Other Voices, Other Worlds reveals a rich historical and cross-cultural complexity to the way in which homosexuality and same-sex relationships are understood and judged.

An acceptable sacrifice? Homosexuality and the Church. Duncan Dormor and Jeremy Morris, eds. SPCK, 2007. £12.99. Here is an oasis in the desert of the Anglican debate about homosexuality. Through rich, accessible theological inquiry the authors lead us deep into vital questions to do with the heart of the gospel, scripture, response to change, the relevance of history, the unity of the Church, and faithful discipleship today. Given the unavoidability of divisive issues, it may be that one of the best gifts the Church of England could give to fellow Anglicans, fellow Christians and many others is what is offered here: a Christian wisdom of dispute in controversy. This books is rightly aimed at those who are unresolved on questions about homosexuality. Its contention that these questions are important but should not be church-dividing will ring true with many. (David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge)

The Bible, the Church and Homosexuality. Nicholas Coulton, ed. Darton, Longman and Todd, 2005. £10.99. Writing for lay people and clergy, six leading writers and pastors combine a passion for the gospel with a search for new ways of practising the life of faith.  Drawing in original and often surprising ways from history and human rights theory, from theology and philosophy, they argue that a change in the Church’s approach to homosexuality would be consistent with the Church’s understanding of Scripture and with its traditional ways of working with doctrine.