The question of gender has been at the heart of recent culture wars within American Evangelicalism. In the United States a whole movement and organisation has grown up around the concept of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood with much ink spilt on books and journal articles not to mention blogs and tweets. ![]() I remember the controversy when Princess Diana used the wedding vows that omit a commitment to “obey.” Over just shy of 5 decades, I’ve seen women ordained first as permanent deacons then as fully functioning Anglican priests and finally appointed as bishops but each of those moves has caused serious fissures within the Church of England. Probably the single most divisive issue for churches during my life time has been the question of how men and women relate to one another in terms of marriage and in terms of church leadership.
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