June 20, 2006
Woman
It’s hard enough to walk the talk on one’s own, let alone in concert. Two can probably learn to tango, but a thousand or so (aka a General Convention) take a while to get the moves. Nevertheless, that’s the way it’s done if any corporate decisions will get made.
Considering all that jazz, it seems passing strange for some of us to behave as if the Holy Spirit cannot serve and inspire and bless us as well through a woman (Ed. bias: If not better) as through a man. The way some are responding to the kind of free choosers we are imaginatively created to be (cf BCP 845) in selecting Katharine to be our presiding bishop might just be construed by God to be downright insulting. Surely they’ve not forgot whom it was he chose to birth his Word, of all people.
That’s the way God got a life. Strikes me as a pretty good way for us to listen up and get one, too.