Acknowledgements
John Sackett
For not turning away, even when he didn't understand. |
Paul
Hammond
For asking the question that brought
this whole web site into being. |
Paul
Miller
For being a true friend.
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David Goodrum
For not making any promises, but always being there. |
Stephen Protomartyr
For being my earliest example and inspiration. |
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Abraham
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For showing me that it's OK to argue with God.
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Socrates
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For teaching me scepticism combined
with humility and a devotion to justice.
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Plato
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For so much wisdom and insight.
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John Evangelist
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For writing so beautifully and profoundly
about Jesus.
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Origen
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For demonstrating that open minded
theological inquiry isn't the same as heresy.
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Athanasius
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For showing me that it's OK to be the
odd one out.
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Mary Renault
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For testifying to the nobility of homo-gender affectivity.
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C.S. Lewis
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For my earliest theological education.
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Karl Popper
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For showing me that to quest for subjective certainty is to miss the way
that leads to objective truth.
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Richard Feynman
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For pointing out that reality has a habit of "kicking back".
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Ayn Rand and Richard Dorking
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Ludwig Ott
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For putting the faith on record, before the modernists could change it!
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Michael Davies
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For not letting the liberals have it all their
own way.
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Francis Selman
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For introducing me to Aquinas.
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My Mother
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For showing me, and many others,
the love of God.
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George and Carol
Hopper
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For hospitality and kindness.
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Balasz Gyorffy
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For giving me back my self-respect.
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Derek Jay
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For showing me how to be a gay Catholic,
even though he is an Anglican.
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A Catholic Priest
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For telling me that it wasn't wrong to be gay.
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Zak
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For showing me affection exactly how
and when I needed it.
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Elizabeth Stuart
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For teaching me that traditionalism and
radicalism are the same.
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Patricia Grimer
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For valiantly remaining faithful to the truth.
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Sue Coote
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For dogged determinism in the face of
hostile authority.
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Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
and Bishop Castro de Mayer
For standing up to be counted. |
For setting an example of uncompromising
love for God, for friends and for truth.
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John Boswell
For telling the story that no-one else
wanted to hear. |
Paul Hallsal
For compiling the Lesbian and Gay
Catholic Handbook |
Bishop
Gumbleton
For daring to speak the truth and rock the boat. |
Bishop J. Terry Steib
For simple kindness, courtesy and genuine concern. |
Rev. W. Thomas Faucher
Who decided not to be "particularly wise"
Deo Gratias! |
Rev T. Radcliffe
For speaking out,
even though he's part of the establishment. |
Gareth Moore
For pointing out that you can't confess what you
don't think is a sin, and that one non-infallible
statement can't make make another
non-infallible statement infallible. |
James Allison
For daring to speak and take the consequences. |