Word: ordain
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...last major Protestant holdout against a female ministry began to weaken this month when a powerful group of international Anglican leaders gave member churches permission to ordain women. At the end of a two-week session in Nairobi, members of the Anglican Consultative Council voted 24 to 22 to "accept the action of any bishop, who, with the approval of his province, decided to admit a woman to the ministry." The decision will affect some 47 million members of the Anglican Communion in 90 countries...
...last week their General Convention approved the ordination of women deacons (see following story). U.S. Lutherans are removing restrictions against women in the ministry even more rapidly. Last June in Minneapolis, the liberal-leaning Lutheran Church in America became the first U.S. Lutheran body to announce that it would ordain women ministers. Late last week the moderate American Lutheran Church, at its own convention in Texas, did likewise. Indeed, the World Council of Churches recently reported that 70 denominations around the world have admitted women to the full ministry of "Word and Sacrament"-allowing them both to preach and preside...
Wedlock we own ordain...
Heaven's Decree, But such as Heaven ordain'd it first