I love the woman at the well story! It has so many messages for any of us struggling as women to find a place in the church. For me, I love how one day it spoke to me about being a failure and a reject. . . It can be tough growing up. And sometimes, it can actually be...
As a recent migrant to South Australia (2006) I got interested in, and to some degree involved with, the Lutheran Church of Australia. In a conversation with a friend about the Ordination of Women she told me about her discussion with her mother about this issue. My...
"Mum, can women be pastors?" "In the Lutheran Church right now, no." Even though i was driving and couldn't see her, I could hear so many emotions in my 8 year old daughter's voice. She couldn't understand why. Never before in her life had she been told that she...
Firstly, I am not a theologian, nor a scholar, but one thing I know is that I am loved by God – warts and all. I have a huge pile of documents from the Ordination We’re Listening (OWL) website, have read numerous versions of CTICR findings over the last couple of...
As a latecomer to this group, I do not know if the following resource (poem or video) has been previously shared. I suspect that it has. For someone like me, a Pastor of the LCANZ, every time I watch it I am concurrently filled with sadness at the incompleteness of my...
Date: 16 January 2023 Dear Bishop Paul Smith, Assistant Bishop Neville Otto, Bishop David Altus, Bishop Lester Priebbenow, Bishop Mark Vainikka, Bishop Mark Whitfield, Bishop Mike Fulwood, Bishop Robert Bartholomaeus, and members of the General Church Board: Pastor...
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