IN THIS FREE online lecture, Sri Lankan-born writer and activist Savitri (Savi) Hensman will explore the concept of the church as a movement or community rather than a collection of institutions, and its members’ part in the shifts in attitudes and practice of church and society.
Savi Hensman is based in London and worked for London’s Black Lesbian & Gay Centre in the 1980s and ‘90s. She is an associate of Ekklesia, who published her book Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Same-Sex Love and the Church. She has also written for the Guardian, Independent, Church of England Newspaper and Via Media, as well as writing poetry.
This lecture for LGBT+ History Month is part of the St Bride's Liverpool Public Theology lecture series. St Bride’s Liverpool is home to the first Open Table community in Liverpool. The lecture is supported by HeartEdge, a movement for renewal, fuelled by people and churches sharing their assets, experience, resource and need.
LGBT+ History Month is a month-long annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual trans, and non-binary history, including the history of LGBT+ rights and related civil rights movements. In the United Kingdom it is celebrated in February each year, to coincide with the 2003 abolition of Section 28. This year's theme is Body, Mind, Spirit.