Categories: just-life
Date: 12 July 2012 20:40:58
There has been a lot of topsy-turvy in The Church recently over the possible election of female bishops. It's one of those things where I can't quite get what's going on, mostly because as inevitable things go, the eventual election of female bishops is fairly obvious. Especially considering that there is just an infusion of women in The Church at nearly all levels. And when I say nearly all levels I'm including the Supreme Governor of the CoE, Queen Elizabeth II.
I sort of have sympathy for those that are in the anti-camp, though I am of the general thought that they are just missing the point*. For some reason there seems to be a great deal of importance being put on having a continious and direct male line going back to the time of the Early Church.... however I've always consdiered the message of Love and Forgiveness that you get in The Gospels to be... well, more important.
I know it's probably a totally terrible cliché but if you were to ask he question 'What Would Jesus Do?' if confronted with the question, "Should a woman be allowed to be a church leader?" I suspect He would say something about how God's Love is inclusive and that turning someone who is of God away is to turn away God Himself... though I'm not a theologian so what would I know??
* - though the Anglo-Catholics are probably right, it will stop, or at least cause issues with, any unity with the Roman Catholic Church