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[wwidsith]

It was a frustrating drive to work this morning, listening to a long debate on the Today programme about the ordination of women bishops. A convention of the synod today will decide whether or not we will get any; over a thousand priests have said they will leave the church if women are allowed to become bishops. In case they start menstruating in

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[zenithblue]

There was a kind of interesting article in the New Yorker a little while ago referring to the Anglican Church as the "church of compromise," since historically so many of their policies and traditions have been cobbled together to allow for flexibility and interpretation (so as to better "show how modern social ideals fit into the wider religious tradition," as you so articulately say). The article was talking mostly about the "to gay or not to gay" question but it seems applicable here, too. How can you even rationalize excluding half of the society you're trying to unify, short of falling back on arbitrary scriptural bullshit?

[noramay]

Speaking of New Yorker atricles on faith...the one recently on theodicy was super.

[noramay]

ok, meant to copy the ilnk: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/06/09/080609crbo_books_wood

[wwidsith]

A brilliant article. I particularly appreciated the oblique criticism of "fundamentalist atheists" like Dawkins.

It also made me desperate to read some Dostoevsky..

[zenithblue]

Totally agreed.

[wwidsith]

It's a good description, and doubly so for the CoE (which Eddie Izzard famously characterized as "more of a hobby than a religion")..