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...your women keep silence in the churches," enjoined St. Paul, and Christian tradition is strongly on the side of an all-male clergy. Outside Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholicism, however, the desperate need for clergy has given many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
...Methodists must accept the ordination of their clergy by the Episcopate and, implicitly, the Anglican principle of rule by bishops descended, by the laying on of hands, from the twelve Apostles. Wesley scoffed at this historic episcopal structure, and British Methodism is run by district chairmen, not bishops. Much against Wesley's own wishes, U.S. Methodists have always called their top officers bishops, but without recognizing the apostolic succession...
Wine or Grape Juice? "Union in one church is a long-term dream," admitted Bishop Harry James Carpenter of Oxford, co-chairman of the joint committee, "and it may be 10, 20 or 30 years before it is achieved." The plan must first be considered by the Anglican Convocations in May and by the Methodist Conference in July. The committee suggested that the question of merger be discussed at the parish and district level for two years. Only after the discussions end will ecclesiastical experts attempt to resolve such technical problems as whether the teetotaling Methodists should continue...
...churches agree to go ahead with the intercommunion, the committee suggested that the decision be celebrated in reconciliation ceremonies at churches and chapels across the country. The committee thoughtfully drew up a formula for the rite, drawn largely from Anglican and Methodist service books...
...Step Backward? Anglican committeemen, high and low churchmen alike, were surprisingly hopeful about bringing the merger off. Said the Rt. Rev. George Sinker, provost of the Diocese of Birmingham: "I think this is the finest opportunity we have had since we turned John Wesley out of the Church of England." The Rev. Leslie Davison, president of the Methodist Conference, went so far as to say: "Denominations have fulfilled their...