Kvinnliga biskopar i Church of England

There are a lot of people who feel they have a lot at stake in this, on both sides of the argument. I know many women clergy have felt very vulnerable as a result of all this discussion – even I as a lay woman feel vulnerable. The whole debate has some theological undertones around gender and the nature of Christ that I find disturbing (most of which were explicit during the women priests debate but are now in the past as this time round it’s more to do with the role of bishops and the nature of ‘being in communion’). I’m expecting the debates to be very passionate and very painful, and to be honest I’m dreading them and have been worrying about it all for weeks. Please pray for all of us on the Synod – that we respect one another, that we listen to each other, and most importantly that God’s will be done in our church and we don’t do too much to stand in God’s way!

Mootblog: Women bishops in the Church of England

(Det är något konstigt med permalänken till inlägget, fungerar den inte kan man i stället gå till mootbloggs startsida och leta upp det. Det är publicerat 5 feb 2006)