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Monday, June 19, 2006
It's a girl!
So the Right Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishop of Nevada, was just elected as the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Click here for an article from salon.com about (yes it is biased, but its good - thanks Lydia for the link).

I'm non-denom (unless emergent become a denomination) and always have been (except for a fling with the Baptist thing) and don't understand all the nuances of the high chuch structure. I understand that a lot of people have a lot of issues with Katherine (as she apparantly asks to be called), but as a women who completly supports women in ministry this is one huge step forward imho.

What are your thoughts?
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posted by Julie at 7:24 PM ¤ Permalink ¤


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  • At 6/19/2006 10:29:00 PM, Blogger Unknown

    This is never a debate I jumped into, and somehow avoided even major details. However, the experience I have had in my own family was that women were not allowed to be in leadership! The funny thing was almost all of the women in my family did some form of leadership. They usually had their husband around (unless it was with the children's leadership)...you know just in case. I don't think they saw it that way...but if you ask me, it was just a formality, they were still "leading". I personally have absolutely no problem with women leading, and think that this is a positive move, not just for women.

     

  • At 6/20/2006 09:19:00 AM, Blogger Lydia

    I just emailed them. Thanks for the link, mizliz.

     

  • At 6/20/2006 03:55:00 PM, Blogger Julie

    thanks Liz for the idea and the link!

     

  • At 6/21/2006 02:27:00 PM, Blogger Miz Melly

    Amen and Hallelujah is all I can say.

     

  • At 6/21/2006 03:16:00 PM, Blogger Julie

    A woman named Dana asked me to post her thoughts here since she doesn't have an account. I thought they might add to the discussion. She wrote -

    "Hi Julie, I'm a regular reader. I'm emailing you because I have a comment on the K. Schori election but do not have a Blogger account. I always sign my name and so am not truly "anonymous" :) Feel free not to post it if it is not in accordance with the agreements about the blog.

    I also think it's great that they have elected a woman. However, it's not as simple as simply electing a woman. There are still some in the Anglican communion who think women shouldn't be ordained as priests at all, let alone consecrated as bishops. From what I gather (being an intersted outside observer of Anglicanism), most of the bishops and theologians don't see a problem with it theologically and have been moving toward it. However, the regular process that the Anglican Communnion has agreed upon to make these things official was bypassed +ten years ago in the matter of ordaining women. It's a procedural difficulty, and even many of those who are for women priests and bishops don't like what they view as "an end run" around the rules that would have brought women's ordination/consecration into being anyway. Bishop Schori's election poses problems for people who are trying to work within the system on behalf of women.

    One of the things about being emerging is a commitment to the church in all its forms, and that calls for respect for their processes, even if we think, as I do, that an ecclesiastical form of church is not what Jesus had in mind from the get-go. Yes, those anti-women's ordination people are missing something theologically; and they're not likely to be more open to listening if they think people might be throwing theology in their faces, so to speak."

     

  • At 6/22/2006 02:58:00 PM, Blogger Julie

    yeah - my gut response to the procedural thing was that what's done is done. By the logic of something not being valid unless all the correct procedures were followed Texas should not be a state in the Union (a point the modern secessionist often make) ...

     
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