Talks

I wish to start with a brief plug. As part of my ministerial training, I need to conduct a rights of passage service. So, if any of you here this afternoon wish to get married, you are especially welcome to contact me! You might laugh at this but one of my other options is conducting a funeral and I’m sure I will get even fewer willing volunteers for that! Why can I make the offer of being able to marry people in this queer space so confidently? Because the chapel of Harris Manchester College is the only Oxbridge college chapel registered to preform both opposite and same-sex marriages. But why, in this age, is it the case that HMC is the only college chapel to offer marriage equally to all who want it to the full extent that the law allows? In part it is because of the college’s Unitarian heritage.