So, Hanson could have been reelected, but wasn’t? Eaton - what’s your take Pastor?
If Hanson would have been re-elected it would have been like the Titanic refugees voting for Captain Smith.
Bishop Eaton made some good oral and written statements in the election process. She is a “company woman” but not so much as the other serious challenger, Council of Bishops Chair Jessica Crist, who I met briefly seven years ago and who impressed me very little. She was a politician then, and her overt campaiging proved to be her undoing.
Is it good for the ECLA to have a woman Presiding Bishop? In the sense that the ELCA “Full Communion Partner” Episcopal Church also has one, probably. But this will drive a deeper wedge to Missouri, Rome, Constantinople, and other bodies opposed to the Ordination of women in general and women in the Episcopacy in particular.