then it will be flawed and the General Church will fail, just as other churches
that adopted false ideas have failed.
Brian Gunther
Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Distinct and Complementary Roles
To The Editors:
I appreciated Bruce Rogers’ insightful paper on women and the clergy. The
topic was an issue in Swedenborg’s day, and has recurred numerous times in
the history of the organized New Church, as it has in the rest of Christianity. I
enjoyed Mr. Rogers’ description of the way that the issue has taken on its
current form in our culture today.
His central point is that men and women are different, that these
differences lead them to take on different but comp