Idle thought
Sunday, November 26th, 2006 09:00 amWomen priests are the Lubavitch of the Church of England.
(Insofar as that traditional priests/rabbis are in decline or ageing except in major city communities, and it's the women priests/Lubavitch rabbis who end up occupying pulpits everywhere else. One wonders whether the attitude towards women priests is the same as that towards Lubavitch rabbis, namely, that they do a good job but it would have been preferable to have had a rabbi who came from the same world as us, that we could relate to better...)
(Insofar as that traditional priests/rabbis are in decline or ageing except in major city communities, and it's the women priests/Lubavitch rabbis who end up occupying pulpits everywhere else. One wonders whether the attitude towards women priests is the same as that towards Lubavitch rabbis, namely, that they do a good job but it would have been preferable to have had a rabbi who came from the same world as us, that we could relate to better...)