Depending on what your poison may be, the Church of England’s General Synod starting today could the most interesting or the most boring event in York this weekend. If you’re an Anglican you’ll probably be following quite closely because the whole thorny issue of women bishops is to be discussed and the meetings are held in the context of the gay priest, Jeffrey John, once again being rejected as a potential bishop. T...

I see the Church of England is getting into a bit of a stew over gender issues again – the gender of its leaders that is, and whether women should be consecrated as bishops. Years have now passed since women were accepted into the ordained priesthood in the C of E – something I disagreed with then, since I don’t think men should be ordained into the priesthood either. We’re all priests in God’s eyes –...