Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sexism in the church?? Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 07:53:55 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu (Joy Haftel) writes: >... >The thought of actually ordaining women would probably give that con- >gregation a community coronary. In prayer and examining my feeling >for what is right, I really could find no *belief* in me that women >should not teach. As a Christian, what was I to think? Is the Bible >wrong? Am I wrong? The two just don't seem to go together. I have >thought about this issue for over a year, and I still can't reconcile >them. Any thoughts or comments would be welcome. Just last night I was speaking to a good clergy friend. Once again, she has had to deal with someone (clergy of a different denomination) questioning her call. Her first question. "Could he refuse his calling?" When he replied that he couldn't, she asked him how he could ask her to refuse hers. After that, she made him the invitation she has made to others who have questioned her calling. "Come, and hear me preach. And then we'll discuss whether or not my calling is genuine." She's never been taken up on this invitation. Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton