You're right, Mark, to say the last thing the College of Bishops wants to be stuck with at this time is a powder keg like this. I hope they will listen to the consistent voice of the laity.
Will the clergy never accept the laity preference to avoid the toxic feminism which has destroyed so many Christian congregations and a great part of Western culture? This is so disheartening for many of us -some of us having been betrayed by as many as four to five churches.
And so the bishops have appointed an interim bishop, +Bob Duncan, for one year, while the diocese reconsiders and elects someone. It should be noted that +Duncan has been, in the past, a strong supporter of ordaining women to the priesthood.
Punting and hoping the problem goes away is unlikely to be a good strategy, although if it ends in WO being established in the diocese the revisionists will consider it a good outcome.
You're right, Mark, to say the last thing the College of Bishops wants to be stuck with at this time is a powder keg like this. I hope they will listen to the consistent voice of the laity.
Will the clergy never accept the laity preference to avoid the toxic feminism which has destroyed so many Christian congregations and a great part of Western culture? This is so disheartening for many of us -some of us having been betrayed by as many as four to five churches.
And so the bishops have appointed an interim bishop, +Bob Duncan, for one year, while the diocese reconsiders and elects someone. It should be noted that +Duncan has been, in the past, a strong supporter of ordaining women to the priesthood.
Punting and hoping the problem goes away is unlikely to be a good strategy, although if it ends in WO being established in the diocese the revisionists will consider it a good outcome.