I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
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