The Church of England took a step closer to having women bishops this week. Their General Synod agreed to the idea of a national code of practice including their ordination. It will take several years to draw up this code of practice and bring it to a final vote but it does open the door to women bishops.
You can read about it here it in The Guardian or even watch a short video with the two most powerful Archbishops in England making short comments and then the announcement of the results of the voting.
The Guardian article focuses a lot on how the clergy who opposed this move were not accommodated. Which is interesting to me since women are 50% of the population (and probably more than 50% of the church based on the statistics I hear about churchgoers). Why is it more important to accommodate a few guys who believe God doesn’t like women leaders than it is to accommodate all the women in the church?
Hopefully it’s not because those guys are men.
07-10-2008 |
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