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[Blog and Mablog] 15 Feb 2008--During this visit, I was speaking with a pastor here who said, quite accurately, that quite apart from theology (on which we did not differ) women's ordination in the CoE has been a disaster. We were not differing on the theology of the thing (God says not to do it), but rather agreeing that disobedience has consequences far more substantive than simply having a check mark against your name indicating technical non-compliance of some sort or other.
Last year more women than men were ordained in the CoE. Why were they ordained? What led them to seek it? What theological standards are being ignored for the sake of this diversity-advance? What might happen as a result? Let us assume for the sake of discussion that she is middle-aged, wants to help people, was recently divorced, needs something to occupy her time, and that because of her station in life a number of the ordinary theological requirements were waived. What might happen in the broader church as a result? Other than churches continuing to empty out?
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