Please note: Kathy wrote and submitted this post earlier this year, before the final Way Forward framework was released. When I first heard about the Conference as an element of the LCANZ’s Way Forward model, I pictured it as a hug: a hug from the entire LCANZ that...
Farewell, dear friends! I don’t mean you, dear reader, but this pile of papers sitting on my kitchen table. These are papers I’ve gathered since I first engaged with the LCANZ ‘ordination debate’, around the year 2000. There are theological papers, discussion guides...
When someone asks how I am feeling about the Convention of General Synod I find it hard to know where to begin in reply. So I’ve gathered some of my thoughts here … At the personal level I'm feeling unsettled; in limbo until this Synod is over. I’ve been feeling this...
As I thought about sharing my story for the ‘Women at the Well’ website, I noticed how my story has parallels with the Samaritan woman’s story. To show you what I mean, I have shared some of the verses from this passage alongside my story: Jesus sat down by the well....
It’s been six weeks since the Way Forward was adopted at the National Synod. As someone who has been an advocate for the ordination of women for decades and who has listened to the pain and suffering of those who have been called by God but rejected by the LCANZ, I...
In silence groans caught up in prayer we plead for those we love not from the joyless stance of Judas returning to consciousness after betraying his deepest self but from an open-heart broken and gifted able to question and wonder hopeful in uncertainty free to...
There is a lot of talk about our need for resilience these days. I don’t know about you, but it conjures up for me, images of having to try harder, be braver, and have more positive thoughts, the latter of which has always been difficult for me. I’m more likely to cry...
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