Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Women Bishops

The Church of England on Monday voted to permit the ordination of women bishops. The Catholic church immediately issued a statement saying that it "regrets" that decision and that it creates a "rift" in the ongoing efforts at reconciliation.

The most-oft cited reason why women can't be bishops, as the article says, is that Jesus' apostles were all men, and therefore, Jesus only wanted men to be bishops.

What these traditionists don't think about is that Jesus only chose Jews to be apostles. So, why are gentile males permitted to be bishops in the Anglican church? By the same reasoning, they ought not to be.
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Unknown said...

I thought the last part of John 17 was a good prayer to pray over this situation.

22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

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