The more I think about the ordination of Libby Lane as first Anglican woman bishop in the Church of England the more depressing it becomes.
Will all the rigmarole yesterday (and the decades of in-fighting and manoeuvring and backstairs fixing that led up to it) have led to the salvation of even one soul?
I doubt it.
It is just the priests fighting among themselves over where they are in the order of precedence and hierarchy over a church where the ordinary people are turning their backs and walking away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30974547
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/30-january/news/uk/c-of-e-s-first-woman-bishop-consecrated
And in an odd cod-Shakespearean poem the ginger group Women And The Church ("Watch") compares Libby Lane to Richard III - who was by any serious historical analysis a usurper: http://womenandthechurch.org/news/for-26th-january-2015/
Will all the rigmarole yesterday (and the decades of in-fighting and manoeuvring and backstairs fixing that led up to it) have led to the salvation of even one soul?
I doubt it.
It is just the priests fighting among themselves over where they are in the order of precedence and hierarchy over a church where the ordinary people are turning their backs and walking away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30974547
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2015/30-january/news/uk/c-of-e-s-first-woman-bishop-consecrated
And in an odd cod-Shakespearean poem the ginger group Women And The Church ("Watch") compares Libby Lane to Richard III - who was by any serious historical analysis a usurper: http://womenandthechurch.org/news/for-26th-january-2015/
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