# Roundup: Thatcher, same-sex marriage, Christianity, God and theology, ministers conferences

> Professor Linda Woodhead, director of the Religion & Society project at Lancaster University in the UK, and Antonio E. Weiss, historian at Birkbeck College at the University of London and author of The Religious Mind of Mrs Thatcher , discuss the late prime minister’s strained relationship with the churches.

14 April 2013 · News

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## [Margaret Thatcher and the churches](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/mrs-thatcher-and-her-clashes-with-the-churches/4621152)

Professor Linda Woodhead, director of the Religion & Society project at Lancaster University in the UK, and Antonio E. Weiss, historian at Birkbeck College at the University of London and author of *The Religious Mind of Mrs Thatcher*, discuss the late prime minister’s strained relationship with the churches.

## [Church of England rejects blessings for same-sex couples](https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/10/church-england-same-sex-couples)

The Church of England has ruled out offering blessings to same-sex couples, insisting that such public gestures belong only to heterosexual marriage.

## [Christians should give up ‘Christianity’](https://www.religiondispatches.org/books/atheologies/6990/christians_should_give_up__christianity__an_interview_with_peter_rollins/)

An interview with Peter Rollins.

## [French Senate backs same-sex marriage](https://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/)

France’s Senate upper house voted in favour of same-sex marriage on Friday, paving the way for it to enter law after street marches rallied hundreds of thousands of demonstrators both for and against it.

## [Louder than words](https://www.literaryreview.co.uk/armstrong_04_13.php)

At some point theology must remind us of what God is not.

## [Charleville – Sydney – Jerusalem](https://andrewfdutney.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/charleville-sydney-jerusalem/)

Every three years the President convenes a set of three conferences for Uniting Church ministers.