The last two occasions when I've been approached by JW's I've said, "I'm sorry, I'm already spoken for: I'm a churchgoing communicant Anglican"....
Then you have problems, since the Archbishop of Canterbury, about whom "there shall be no derogatory or disrespectful comments" supports the...
Anglican Forums Reformation, Step 1 Modern errors such as women's ordination and gay "marriage" have no warrant in Holy Scripture, nor...
I'm not sure how you define "heretical" in this context. As for as I'm concerned, all the Bishops in the Church of England, the Church of Ireland...
Thanks, everyone!
Hi, I've been away on six months' sabbatical and it's good to be back. I look forward to getting fully involved again.
I wouldn't worry too much. It's an old ploy used by certain RCs to try to discredit us (and sometimes "Protestants" in general). In fact Henry...
There is nothing wrong, of course. It merely shows that the Supreme Governor of the Church of England is a woman.
No way have I "conceded defeat". I really can't see how you came to that conclusion. My point is that the Church would be a lot worse off without...
As we would without male priests. We need both. And if it's 50-50 that's a healthy balance.
I never used the word, "acute" though did I? I said, "we would be in a worse state because of shortage of priests". But women priests were not...
That is a misreading of two earlier posts, and in any event I never used the word "acute". For better or for worse (probably the latter) there...
i) I'm not sure that the men's shortage did become acute. Compared to the Church of Rome we're doing fine in this respect. ii) and ii) Let's...
i) No, but Spherelink did. ii) I like Americans. My (Presbyterian) g'g'dad fought for the North in the Civil War. iii) Sorry about that. But we...
It's all a bit sad, isn't it? In the last hundred years women have been granted the vote. Both in the UK and NZ (and Aus) we have had women Prime...
Are you advocating some form of "positive discrimination" in favour of men? Anyhow, the answer is, none. It's a non-issue. Again, a non-issue.
Women's ordination was not brought in as a "cure for an alleged shortage of priests". But to quote an elderly male fellow parishioner, "we'd be...
See my reply to Spherelink.
Wrong. We would be in a worse state because of a shortage of priests. Half the ordinands in our diocese are women.
This is a postscript to Spherelink. My memory is that you've managed not to leave our communion, and I'm pleased about it. It's good how tolerant,...