Helen King sharedconversations What colour should it be? ‘Furthering’ Living in Love and Faith
Mark Clavier Well-Tempered 10 Lessons from 30 Years of Being a Priest
David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals Male and female he made them – celebrating one humanity, equal and different
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Music in the Worship of the Church. Cause of Unity or Division?
Subordinationism is massively present in the New Testament and not ruled out in the fourth and fifth century creeds. However, Father and Son are not male and female, so they provide no model for subordination or even complementarity between the two (or more than two, say some) sexes
I think some of Mark Clavier’s advice is very good. One issue, though “Priests are sheep temporarily deputised to help shepherd other sheep”. This is false; you are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek who should “never cease your labour, your care and diligence, until you have done all that lieth in you.” (BCP Ordinal)
Fair enough. Had I not been writing on a train, I would probably have caught and deleted ‘temporarily’. For what it’s worth, it refers to being deputised on this side of the grave. Or at least that’s what I had in mind.
Hopefully you’re still one of Jesus’ sheep, George.
Personally, like most low church Anglicans, I’ve never thought that verse was about me. In Hebrews it’s about Jesus, and the writer never applies it to Christian pastors and teachers.
There have been some good posts on Inclusive Evangelicals lately. Many thanks to Rachel Humphrey, David Runcorn, Paul Roberts, and David Newman for the most recent four.
Mark Clavier ’10 Lessons from 30 Years of Being a Priest’ – excellent!