It is garbage night and you are preparing to do your weekly duty. As you put on your slippers so that your socks don’t get all gritty on the garden path, and rummage around for the torch (because you still haven’t fixed the outside light), your spouse interrupts your domestic ritual. (more…)
The women’s ordination debate has led to some strange bed-fellows in the household of faith. The Anglo-Catholics and the Evangelicals have discovered how much they have in common, and have gotten together to defeat the Liberals. And just as we were becoming accustomed to this new alliance, everyone seems to have crossed the floor on permanent women deacons. Now it’s the Anglo-Evangelical camp that are all for ordination (to the diaconate) and the MOWists who are dead against it!