From The Telegraph-There has been no popping of champagne corks for the Rev Canon Dr Alison Joyce to celebrate the Church of England giving its final approval for women bishops.
The newly installed Rector of St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street, London, may have been in the vanguard of campaigning for equal rights at the altar for 30 years – as one of the first women deacons in 1988, the first woman priest in Birmingham diocese in 1994 (when she was seven months pregnant) and, lately, the first female incumbent in her high-profile role at what is known as the “journalists’ church” – but there is an unmistakable war-weariness about her.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11247619/Women-bishops-The-hate-mail-was-always-from-other-Christians.html
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