James' talk to the Scottish Laity Network’s Programme for Lent 2022. He is talking about the historical developments in understanding human sexuality, relationships and life of faith that have brough us to the point we find ourselves at now.
On diversity and evangelisation: the new “we” which is what Catholicism is all about, the “we” out of every people and nation and tribe and tongue, depends on all of us learning to preach the Gospel in the first person.
Belonging matters more than life or death. It gives us our approval, who we are to be. It is the hardest thing in the world to receive your approval and thus your sense of belonging from “Your Father who is in Heaven” rather than from those who can give you a quick fix.
Many Christians are unable to attend Church services for the moment, for reasons of COVID-19. Rather than film myself celebrating Mass for my friends, and sharing the video [...] I felt that it may be time to try something a little bolder.