'Her Will Be Done': Women Outnumber Men Among Swedish Clergy

Sputnik News ^ | 7/17/20

[marshmallow]

The Church of Sweden, Europe's largest Lutheran denomination, is known today for its overtly liberal position in many theological and secular issues, such as the question of homosexuality, yet has been steadily losing 1-2 percent of its worshippers every year over the past decades.

For the first time in history, the number of female clergy in the Church of Sweden has surpassed that of their male counterparts, the church newspaper Kyrkans tidning reported.

The share of women is now up to 50.1 percent, or 1,533, compared to 49.9 percent men or 1,527, the employers's organisation Skao reported.

Among the deacons, however, the proportion is even more skewed, as wholly 89 percent are women. Among pastors, though, women still lag behind, at 37 percent.

According to former dean Karin Burstrand, the issue of gender equality is of utmost importance for the church's “credibility” in society.

“Should the church's way of interpreting faith in relation to gender equality be completely different from society's, then the church would cease to be relevant,” Burstrand told Kyrkans tidning.

The Church of Sweden is the country's national church and former state church. At roughly 5.8 million members, it is the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world, trailing only those of Ethiopia and Tanzania.

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Tares.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Have had 4 women pastors, all liberals.
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And you’re not at all embarrassed to reveal that?

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Women run everything in Sweden, that’s why it is all messed up.
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In my view that’s more than enough reason never to go there.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Boy Scouts allowing girls will just be one of the later to disappear.
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Just read within the past week (probably here) that the BSA has filed for bankruptcy.

[montag813]

Women. Destroyer of civilizations.

[kearnyirish2]

That may be about limiting the exposure to lawsuits; when Catholic dioceses did it, victims groups saw it as a dodge (since it capped the settlements).

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The Church of Sweden, Europe's largest Lutheran denomination, is known today for its overtly liberal position in many theological and secular issues, such as the question of homosexuality, yet has been steadily losing 1-2 percent of its worshipers every year over the past decades.

Dear Me! I wonder why that is?/s

[inchworm]

One Presby, and 3 Methodist.