Greg+

<snip>I actually hope our unity and state of communion with the Network and
Global South get to the point where we're wrestling with these questions of
women and the diaconate; because to get that far, it would first require an
AMiA-like decision on behalf of the current Network clergy/churches to
reject women's "ordination" to the presbyterate.

Well reasoned post and I think the above paragraph is a very good point.  A
large part of the struggle is going to be the fact that so many women are
members of the Network.

MLW+