Entries categorized as women bishops
Women submit to your husbands
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...
Women Bishops and the Revision Committee
MCU has published a paper that welcomes the Revision Committee’s change of policy. However, it questions the emphasis on seeking to satisfy the opponents of women bishops while showing no comparable concern for the majority appalled by the continuing gender discrimination.
The paper argues
that the proposed proliferation of different classes of bishops (women, men More...
Women bishops – the latest from the revision committee
Bishop Alan reports:
The latest from the rather dry and technical sounding Revision Committee on women in the Episcopate which met yesterday contains one ecclesiologically significant discovery:
After much discussion, the members of the Committee were unable to identify a basis for specifying particular functions for vesting which commanded sufficient support both from those in favour of More...
changing denomination on principle
Some time back I blogged about Blackburn Cathedral’s well intentioned but not very successful attempt to please everyone. They have subsequently changed that decision, and are trying alternative ways to please everyone.
Meantime more angst and attempts to find ways to protect everyone’s integrity led to the announcement from Rome last week, and the decision by More...
I’m not on strike
I went into Church on Saturday afternoon, and was greeted by two clergy colleagues who, with broad grins on their faces, said “Well, surprised to see you here – we thought you’d gone on strike.”
Apparently the Church Times had reported that I am calling women clergy to “go on strike”, but that Christina Rees was More...
women bishops, and stay at home sunday?
My last post on women in the Church kicked off quite a conversation. Thanks to everyone who joined in with thoughtful comments. And thanks to so many who wanted to offer support and encouragement.
I received quite a handful of private emails and calls too, from women who have served the Church tirelessly and feel More...
women bishops are tainted? and tainting the church?
Ruth Gledhill writes in the Times about the Church of England (or at least the powers that be) changing it's mind about the decision made by Synod last year:
Church legislators have backtracked on a decision
made by the General Synod, the Church’s governing body, last year to
consecrate women bishops with minimal concessions to opponents.
The Church More...
women bishops (again)
Rosalind pointed out in the comments yesterday that encouraging women's vocations is a double edged sword. I know that so well. No woman should enter the ministry, especially in the CofE, unless she is prepared to put up with a hell of a lot of bullying, and strong enough to maintain self esteem swimming against More...
Women Bishops
(or more correctly, Women in the Episcopate. "Women Bishops is gramatically clumsy. And I don't like the phrase "female Bishops" unless we are going to to demand that Bishops who are not female be called "male Bishops". It would sound ridiculous if we demanded that people always specified "male teachers" and "female teachers" or "Male More...
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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