tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35868329.post1034756233240569546..comments2023-06-01T04:41:28.669-04:00Comments on an undercurrent of hostility: the weather's cooling off, I might be able to blog...Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06944928044277724293noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35868329.post-36362537682896132932007-07-08T17:09:00.000-04:002007-07-08T17:09:00.000-04:00Your blog makes me giggle...another female priest ...Your blog makes me giggle...another female priest mother loaded down with laundry and driven by the importance of Orthodox theology. Summertime growing bellies do necessitate naps...<BR/><BR/>I'm stealing a few moments from the laundry to read blogs, keep up with the news...<BR/><BR/>So, I was wondering how this headship thing works in your family. I grew up in an evangelical church where everyone talked about it but no one knew how or what it really meant.<BR/><BR/>I love John Eldredge's book "Captivating" in which he and his wife Staci talk about women who are either dominating or hiding and the need to be healed from both and become someone who invites toward beauty. <BR/><BR/>Do you mind blogging about how it really works in your family?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35868329.post-60856398858532977542007-07-05T11:03:00.000-04:002007-07-05T11:03:00.000-04:00Hey, Anne+Thank God for the cooler weather. Glad y...Hey, Anne+<BR/><BR/>Thank God for the cooler weather. Glad you're feeling better. :)<BR/><BR/>Grace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35868329.post-3964405781322524942007-07-04T16:00:00.000-04:002007-07-04T16:00:00.000-04:00Glad you are feeling better thanks to the nicer we...Glad you are feeling better thanks to the nicer weather.<BR/><BR/>I wasn't sure whether to comment here or under the entry from November.<BR/><BR/><I>And I maintain vigorously that if you insist on being Anglo-Catholic, you have no business being pro WO—in the </I>parousia<I>, your head will explode from the theological inconsistency.</I><BR/><BR/>LOL, brilliant!<BR/><BR/>It shows how little I knew of Evangelical Anglicans that until I saw the gargantuan comment thread at Stand Firm under the recent entry about WO I had no idea there was a theology among them of limited WO!<BR/><BR/>I can see it being attacked as a kind of second-class priesthood and, though perhaps intended as a good <I>via media</I> approach, offending more people than the Catholic positions (either it's impossible or the larger Catholic world doesn't do it so no), which though they offend are consistent.<BR/><BR/>While I agree that limited WO doesn't make sense (one is not provisionally or conditionally a priest; one is either a priest <I>in æternum</I> or not) it gets my respect this way: unlike the liberals <I>you actually care what the larger church has to say</I> and are trying to respect that even if you don't agree.<BR/><BR/>As you probably know headship isn't a big part of the argument about Catholics not ordaining women. It doesn't figure into my thinking but the Stand Firm thread confronted me with it over and over so I came to the conclusion that... <I>headship is good!</I> After all it's biblical. It <I>doesn't</I> mean, as many liberal and secular people think, being domineering or physically abusive! ('Husbands, love your wives...') Think about it - strong women are wonderful and made that way by God but even the strongest and most independent woman, if she's healthy, in a relationship wants a strong man she can fall back on to take care of her and their kids if she needs it. Un-PC common sense! Reminds me of what C.S. Lewis wrote: if you look at a household where the wife is in charge she's not happy and in fact hates and resents her husband.<BR/><BR/>Modern women usually don't admit it but this headship - again, not tyranny or other abuse - is what they're really looking for.<BR/><BR/>Score one for the Bible and the Revds Kennedy!<BR/><BR/>And Dr Redding and her bishop <I>are</I> being ridiculous. (How can one have at least a master's degree in theology, and train for the ministry, and seem to know that little about Christianity or Islam for that matter?) I was happy to see that even among the Broad Churchmen/liberals next to nobody online defends what they're doing.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com