tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post4826636976569748779..comments2023-04-07T19:33:19.607+10:00Comments on Caliban's Dream: More (inspired by David Marr, Mad Priest and Lapinbizarre).Alcibiadeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13132420102550256958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-79618143876672647622009-03-31T13:19:00.000+11:002009-03-31T13:19:00.000+11:00Hello, lovely educated people. Are there any more ...Hello, lovely educated people. Are there any more thoughts on this topic?<BR/>Have you met Tara, do you know what she's doing at Moore?<BR/>I think that's a bit mean to say that there is only so much she can do now.Lexxinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-66262879845313577662008-06-16T08:57:00.000+10:002008-06-16T08:57:00.000+10:00Thanks for the heads up on this one - I have to li...Thanks for the heads up on this one - I have to limit the time I spend on the SydAng site or else I start getting depressed ;-)<BR/><BR/>Rev Thornley is ordained as a Deacon, which is a far as she can go in Sydney. She can not preside at the Eucharist or be the Rector of a parish. In many churches she is not allowed to preach or read the Bible aloud if men are present, while others would permit her to speak at mid-week services but not on Sundays, and to deliver the Old Testament reading, but not the Epistle (generally the one on which the sermon is based) or Gospel.<BR/><BR/>Women like her of remind me of hostages suffering Stockholm Syndrome: they’ve been oppressed for so long that they’ve come to identify with their persecutors.Alcibiadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13132420102550256958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-76500113997813996292008-06-16T08:04:00.000+10:002008-06-16T08:04:00.000+10:00Interested to see, at the close of a new Sydney ar...Interested to see, at the close of a new Sydney archdiocese piece on GAFCON, mention and photograph of a Lady Clergperson, Tara Thornley, who, it says, will attend GAFCON and will, in 2009 (talk about planning ahead) be appointed Dean of Women at Moore Theological College. Is the Rev'd Ms Thornley there as window dressing? Some of your earlier reports suggest that so far as ministry is concerned, she's likely to have a seriously circumscribed career.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/sydneystories/a_buzz_about_the_future/" REL="nofollow">http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/sydneystories/a_buzz_about_the_future/</A>Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241057393602065840.post-91282076460864762072008-06-15T09:48:00.000+10:002008-06-15T09:48:00.000+10:00I'm flattered to find myself in such distinguished...I'm flattered to find myself in such distinguished company. As we've said before, the seeds of this problem lie - matters of ego excluded - more in the 1559 Act of Uniformity than in Tract XC. This is not just Sydney. A few months back +Bob Pitts also declared the death of the Elizabethan Settlement - an end to 450 years of compromise. I started posting at Thinking Anglicans 18 months or so back, gradually working my way outwards from there, because I imagined that discussing things in a "sensible" manner might help calm things. It doesn't, of course, as I gradually learned. The Christ of the Gospels is largely a stranger to these people.<BR/><BR/>Have you looked - here I swing wildly off course - into Eamon Duffy's "Voices of Morebath", a study, through parish records and accounts, of a small Devon parish and its conservative priest, Christopher Trychay, vicar from 1520 to 1574? Trychay's career encompassed the entire 16th c English Reformation. His and his parish's accommodations from one Tudor regime to the next, and his acceptance of the Elizabethan Compromise, are fascinating to read.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.com