The article tries to attribute the decline of the anglican church to tribalism, but the real culprit is liberalism.
I stopped attending the Episcopal church when it started ordaining women and stopped using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in the 1970s. Nothing against women — I just believed at the time (and still do) that there are other important roles for them in the church. Every denomination that has ordained women as priests or rectors has gone off course into liberalism soon thereafter.
I’m in the RCIA proicess now and should be confirmed Catholic in the Spring.
- JP
I believe the issue over priestesses is a misunderstanding of women’s role in the Church — which IS equal to men but different. Just like in a marriage, it needs to be a partnership of equals, but not equals in everything: there is give and take.