The Times: ‘Gender havens’ to avert split in Church

(Ed: Worth reading for this sentence alone, "it risks antagonising liberals who believe that Anglicanism should not offer a compromise". Some may see this as a Gledhill-ism. Others may think it is just the truth!)


The Church of England is proposing to tear up hundreds of years of tradition by establishing spiritual havens for opponents of women priests and bishops.

In a desperate attempt to stave off a schism over female ordination, church leaders have suggested the creation of new dioceses based on gender rather than geography.

The proposal – allowing some parishes to flee from the prospect of women bishops to male bishops hundreds of miles away – is one idea intended to preserve the unity of the Anglican Communion amid intense anger among millions of conservative church members.

But it risks antagonising liberals who believe that Anglicanism should not offer a compromise. Read more
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