Madre's Missives

So often when the issue of women’s ordination comes up the traditionalist response is to circle the wagons and defend itself with the Law. How dare a woman even think of usurping the Office? It’s bad enough to have a lay man reading lessons and/or assisting with distribution. A woman? Perish the thought! The idea of a woman in the chancel for any reason except receiving the [ read more ]

Edited on: January 21st, 2011 10:30 pm

"So what then would be the Gospel answer be to women's ordination? You can do it. In Christ there is neither male nor female."

Madre peeks her head out of her purple-festooned October blogservance of Domestic Violence Month.

Huh?

What in the world is THIS? Marie? Marva? Julie? Dot? No, Petersen.

To the question of whether women

I'm a woman who firmly believes that the backside of the entertainment center is a male domain. At least in every household I've lived in it is. Audio RF serial red yellow white input output video3...it's all just a dialect of Geekery* to me.  My eyes glaze over, I don't understand it, and I really, honestly don't CARE to either.  As long as the TV turns on when I hit the

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I have been asked to give my take on this topic a a few times so here are my incomplete thoughts and conclusions.  Have at it!

The interesting thing about this 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 is that it s not primarily about wearing veils or hats.  In a sense, women have two heads, the one on top of their shoulders, and

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So I go visit the ELCA website to see what's going on in "Lutheran" land and run across an ad for The Cafe, the ELCA's new Women's E-Magazine.

Wow.  I don't even know where to begin.

For convenience, I'll start with the current issue.  There's a long, 3-page article on

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