Even the Devils Believe

The Church of England has voted to proceed toward the ordination of women bishops, though there is some kind of plan for a “national code” to allow for those who dissent from WO. Not quite clear to me what that means.
As Jane notes, this is a theological matter — a matter of what is true [...]

Recently bls reposted this article by Fr Tobias Haller, BSG, about the central dogmas of Christian faith that are violated by certain arguments against women’s ordination. I was very taken with the argument when he posted it but had forgotten where I heard it until bls reposted it.
The topic of WO has since come [...]

Jane Redmont and Deirdre Good have written a moving farewell piece to their mentor, Swedish Lutheran bishop and Harvard Div School dean emeritus Krister Stendahl. I won’t even excerpt it — you should read the whole thing.
As I’ve been reading some of Stendahl’s work in the week since he died, prompted by Jane’s posts on [...]

Much is being made in the blogosphere of Pope Benedict’s comments at an ecumenical prayer service in New York a few days ago:
At a Roman Catholic church in Manhattan, the pope later warned other Christian leaders against “so-called prophetic actions” that conflict with traditional views of the Bible, a reference to the debate over Scripture [...]

The National Women’s Law Center is sponsoring a Blog for Fair Pay day, and I thought I’d write something about that issue in the Christian churches. In the secular world, women are not paid equally with men, even when one adjusts for education, experience, and time spent not working because of pregnancy, child care, [...]

Those who read my blog back in its Progressive Protestant days may be surprised with how little I have commented on the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries this cycle. During the ‘04 cycle, I was quite a newshound and posted a lot not only about policy issues, but the horserace aspects of the primaries, [...]

In response to the news that Seabury-Western Theological Seminary is suspending its residential M.Div., and taking into account general trends in the mainline, Christopher Evans has a long post up from before the weekend about the breakdown of old models of “doing church”. Being in some ways a human enterprise, the Church is always [...]

Today is the Feast of the Chair of St Peter — the fact is somewhat obscured by the name used in the latest liturgical books, but it is not traditionally the feast of St Peter’s see in Rome, but rather the Chair of St Peter at Antioch. The traditional feast for the Chair at [...]

My friend LutherPunk has an important post up about his frustrations starting a Lutheran mission church — the comment thread is at least as important as the post itself, so definitely check it out.
A lot of what he’s saying plays into some of the reasons I’m in the Independent movement. The mainline seems to [...]

Mary Sue’s recent post on clothing for women clergy is definitely worth a read — and also introduced me to a couple of sites I hadn’t seen before and want to plug.
The site she links to directly is Fidelia’s Sisters, which is a zine for women clergy published by the Young Clergy Women Project. (This [...]