In her comment on Fulcrum on the events in Sheffield diocese, Elaine Storkey writes: Five principles were drawn up to help the church move forward in our call to unity on women bishops. The first principle states that the Church of England is fully and unequivocally committed to all orders of ministry being open equally …
Continue reading On infidelity, broken promises and hounding: why Elaine Storkey is wrong.
Lurking behind some of the commentary following Tuesday's rejection of the Measure allowing women to become bishops is a piece of linkage that needs examining. Some of the resistance to women in the episcopate was coloured (to put it no more strongly than that) by a fear that admitting that the people who hold up …
I hear a good deal from thse who hold the minority position over women bishops about the need to respect the views and positions of their side as we go forward. Respect? I respect your right to hold the views you do. I respect your right to be part of the Church of England just …
Like so many others, I am astonished, shattered and angry at what happened at Synod yesterday. Unlike some, I have no complaint at the process. I accept that in the Church of England we set the bar high for significant and radical changes. I shall leave it to others to decide if the standard is …
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