Church Times - and do you remember Men Only?

I quite like Church Times. It concentrates its attentions on matters of doctrinal difference that men of the cloth debate most earnestly when they are not playing with their electric train sets. It is the voice of the Established Church-men.

But just once, could Church Times open its pages to women theologians, and not put them on Page 3? From St Teresa and Hildegaard of Bingen to Mother Theresa women have done the donkey-work of the church, looking after the flock instead of the frock, and baking cakes in case an important Bishop chanced by.

And if it were not for women, there would be no men of the church to strut their stuff, because, dear priests and bishops and archdeacons, you were all born of a woman like the rest of us. A woman who gave you life, but whom you now deny equality to, in this church of all possible churches.

Boys, it might be a good moment to put aside your toys. The old order is changing - and thank God.