Entries categorized as women bishops

Synod and women bishops (again)

On July 12, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 5 Comments
So today the debate continues. Saturday’s discussions were surprising to many, a relief to some and a grief to others. The Archbishops’ suggested amendment was overruled by the House of Clergy, by a very narrow margin. Today synod will continue to debate how the introduction of women to the episcopate will go forward. There’s been More...

Open Letter to the Archbishops

On June 23, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 1 Comment
When will the Church of England accept that to set up structures that implicitly infer that some people are less a child of God than others is just poor theology and a stumbling block to our proclamation of the gospel?... More...

The archbishops, evangelism and the status of women.

On June 22, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 2 Comments
Hot on the heels of the Archbishops’ suggested compromise over women bishops yesterday, they have today been quoted in the Independent as gung-ho for evangelism. Don’t be shy about telling people about Christianity, they urge us. ‘In Christ, old identities are never the last word and the good is offered for all the world,’ their publication More...

synod, archbishops’ amendments and women bishops

On June 21, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 12 Comments
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have today made public their proposed amendments to the recommendations the Revision Committee have drafted for the forthcoming Synod. AMENDMENTS TO BE PROPOSED BY THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK 1. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the Revision Committee for their dedicated and painstaking work. We wish, however – More...

Mitregate (2): “should I go or should I stay, now?”

On June 19, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 16 Comments
All this week the Mitregate story has been buzzing round the press and the blogosphere. But the story gets even stranger, for Ruth Gledhill now reveals (from behind her paywall) that other women bishops have previously ministered publicly at Southwark with their mitre. US Bishop Geralyn Wolfe preached (though did not celebrate) in November 2001, and More...

A decision to say no is a decision

On June 17, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 6 Comments
The Bishop of Durham suggested in his address to his Diocesan Synod (21 May 2010) that the Church of England should delay moving forward with the proposed legislation to allow women to be bishops, instead making time to engage in further theological debate. It sounds so reasonable, doesn’t it? But it isn’t. Delay doesn’t mean everything More...

bishops in hotel with naked woman

On May 25, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 1 Comment
So the Bishops are meeting to discuss, once again, the ramifications of letting women into their House. Turns out that a hen party is staying in the same hotel as the Bishops, and around midnight a naked and very inebriated woman locks herself out of her room and sets off the fire alarm.  One very flustered More...

Women Bishops: documents published

On May 8, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 2 Comments
From the Church of England (I’ll comment when I’ve read it all) The Church of England has today published the 142-page report of the Revision Committee that has been considering in detail the draft legislation to enable women to become bishops in the Church of England. Also published is an amended version of the draft, More...

Women submit to your husbands

On February 18, 2010 / By maggi dawn / 7 Comments
I missed this story in the Telegraph a few days ago (not my paper of choice) until I read it via The Church Mouse. Two clergymen in Kent are preaching not only the old chestnut that  women should be silent in church and submit to their hubands “because the Bible says so”, but even that divorce More...

Love one another

On November 25, 2009 / By maggi dawn / 5 Comments
I was talking to a man a couple of days back, a priest I’ve known since we were both contemplating ordination. He told me a story about how some years ago he’d overheard some senior priests at a big Cathedral bash, talking about the “new” women priests. They were trying to decide whether it was More...