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| Joanna Penberthy in PhD secular doctorate attire Source: Church in Wales |
The diocese of St Davids has a new website. After a brief reference to problems imposed by the Covid-19 virus the site features first and foremost the Bishop of St Davids noting: "She is the first woman to be appointed bishop in the Church in Wales, following the Governing Body’s decision in September 2013 to enable women’s ordination to the episcopate."
Similarly at the enthronement of Cherry Vann as Bishop of Monmouth: "guests were all there to see the first woman bishop take her seat – or ‘throne’ – at Newport Cathedral."
Fond of (mis)quoting Galatians 3:28 supporters of the ordination of women have been telling people that there is neither male nor female so why do they have to keep emphasising their sex? It is all about feminism and power regardless of the cost to others.
At the 2017 services of celebration held in Wales' six Anglican cathedrals to mark 20 years since the Church in Wales first ordained women priests, Bishops’ Adviser for Church and Society, Canon Carol Wardman, was the preacher at Brecon Cathedral. Following the example of "bullshitting" Barry Morgan she put her own interpretation on Galatians 3:28.
Self-centred feminist claims about so-called equality and gender fluidity have been brought to a head in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Higher death rates for men brutally emphasise what, to the majority of us, was self evident: Men and women are biologically different.
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[05.05.2020]
The Department of Health and Social Care have announced a review of "emerging evidence to suggest that #coronavirus may be having a disproportionate impact on some ethnic groups, as well as certain genders."
For 'certain genders' read 'men'.
[06.05.2020]
"..our acceptance of our bodies and biological sex is a mere social construct, not a physical reality. It tells young children that they have an ‘inner gender identity’ which may or may not align with their biological sex." - From ‘Free to Be’ produced by a group called EqualiTeach. It is designed for use in our primary schools with the intention of challenging something the transgender lobby calls ‘cisnormativity’. - The Conservative Woman
i think lie a better word; it puts it all clearly into the proper category; John 8:44–45
ReplyDeleteYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
1 Timothy 4;1-2
ReplyDeleteNow the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, (ESV)
James 3:15–16
ReplyDeleteThis is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (ESV)
Revelation 9:20–21
ReplyDeleteThe rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (ESV)
In my view there's nothing particularly extraordinary in raising the issue of the ordination of women to the three-fold ordained ministry of the Church. It strikes me as essentially no different in principle from the primitive Church's first major theological controversy, viz. the question of whether the incarnation of the Word of God was relevant only to the Chosen People of Israel, or whether it implied an extension of salvation to Gentiles as well. The resolution of that issue took the Church in an entirely new direction, which is the reason why the Church became a universal family rather than an exclusively Judaic reform movement.
ReplyDeleteBut, as far as we can see at this distance in time, that decision was made on purely theological grounds: the Church pondered the apparent implications of the 'Divine Invasion' of the human world in the Incarnation of the Word of God and teased out the seeming consequences of that divine action. Whereas - at least in my perception, having lived through all the controversies - the decision of Anglicanism to admit women to the priesthood and the episcopate was primarily driven by the secular fashion of the time, rather than by reflection on the theological issues surrounding the matter.
And in a 'divine society' in which the Church is viewed as the extension of the Incarnation that simply isn't enough to justify the innovation.