New Church Life Nov/Dec 2014 | Page 26

new church life: november/december 2014 I feel for the women whose call to ministry is being invalidated; I feel for our broken home. In the wake of your announcement, I also feel for the clergy whose motives are being questioned and whose character is under attack. I want to express my faith that the clergy are good men, trying to remain in integrity with their understanding of doctrine. I don’t believe that they (or the Bishops) are intoxicated with power, or that there is a conscious desire to keep women under the thumb of male XY\