20 November 2012

Out of steam


Oh dear... 

Church of England votes against ordaining women as Bishops...

15 years after the first female CEO of a FTSE 100 company,
33 years after Britain's first woman Prime Minister,
459 years after England's first crowned Queen,
Nearly 2000 years after the first Christian Church led by a woman (Acts 12, 1 Corinthians 1 etc)...
The Church of England can't even appoint women to its higher levels of leadership, let alone overall leader...

How much more out of date and out of touch does the Church of England leadership through the General Synod want to become?

Out of date - undoubtedly (42 of 44 Diocesan Synods voted in favour)
Out of touch - unbelievably, both with its own membership and with wider society
Out of steam???...

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