God in a life behind schedule…
Increasingly, time pressures crowd out the leisurely pace that prayer seems to require. Communication with other people keeps getting shorter and more cryptic: text messages, email, instant messaging. We have less and less time for conversation, let alone contemplation. We have the constant sensation of not enough: not enough time, not enough rest, not enough exercise, not enough leisure. Where does God fit into a life that already seems behind schedule?
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I heard her speak yesterday and have to say I was very moved. She is an excellent preacher.
She is staying at Westcott and leading us through Holy week.
It does feel really good to have a female bishop in the house
Hopefully a sign of things to come here.
She was my diocesan bishop here in Edmonton for eight years.
Stand by, Christchurch; Victoria likes to shake things up. She’s committed to the gospel and the kingdom, and she’s not a comfortable person to have around.
BTW, Victoria never tires of pointing out that the phrase ‘woman bishop’ is grammatically incorrect, because ‘woman’ is not an adjective! No one ever says, ‘man bishop’!
The word woman has been used as an appositive since at least the 1300s according to the OED. The Rt. Rev. is incorrect: “woman bishop” is quite correct. So would be “man bishop,” if one wanted to use the phrase. But so as not to offend her, one could say “female bishop.” Mind you, the gender of bishops one hopes will someday get to be unremarkable. Bishop Matthews was succeeded by another female bishop, the second woman elected diocesan this year in Canada, I think. I had the pleasure of meeting Katherine Jefferts Schori this week, a remarkable primate. May female bishops become unremarkable in Wales and England, too, in our lifetimes.