Jim Cotter

The Service of My Love Jim Cotter

The Service of My Love is a complete guide to the Christian celebration and blessing of civil partnerships. It combines reflection on the pastoral, ethical, ministerial and theological aspects of blessing civil partnerships with orders of service and supplementary material.


Full contents:



Pat and Chris would like a blessing: a pastoral perspective
Excerpts from a life story: a personal perspective
A vicar's dilemma: a ministerial perspective
A Communion at odds: an ecclesiastical and theological perspective
An undoubted good?: an ethical perspective
A working text for a ceremony of commitment and blessing
For a celebration of Holy Communion
A service of prayer in church
Supplementary resources