Key decision-making meetings of the United Reformed Church and the Methodist Church have both supported Hannah Brock Womack, a Quaker who was prevented from being the Fourth President of Churches Together in England
Plans to appoint a further President for Churches Together in England have faltered because not all denominations would accept a nominated President who is in a same-sex marriage.
Keith Clements argues that the Free Churches need to work rigorously for a genuinely ecumenical movement – not one dominated by established Anglican and Catholic interests