"Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman. Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to 'Our Mother which art in heaven' as to 'Our Father' . Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form, and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son. Suppose finally, that the mystical marriage were reversed, that the Church were the Bridegroom and Christ the bride. All this, as it seems to me, is involved in the claim that a woman can represent God as a priest does. Now it is surely the case that if all these supposals were ever carried into effect we should be embarked on a different religion."   (C S Lewis)

In an article in the St George's parish magazine of September 1916 the Rev F C Baker called upon all true sons and daughters of the Catholic Church to sternly and resolutely set their faces against the idea of the admission of women to Holy Orders, warning of the dire consequences of introducing the "deadly sin of schism into the Church". (Click here to see the article.)

Today the Church of England, having embraced this innovation, is no longer in communion with itself and world-wide Anglicanism is undergoing fragmentation. Geoffrey Kirk, in the November 2009 edition of New Directions, muses that the cause of disintegration - sex - should come as no surprise as "the man who created the Church of England" did so "to legitimise his desire to set aside a blameless wife and marry a strumpet, and then murdered the strumpet to marry another".

These are the circumstances in which St George's, Headstone is a corporate member of Forward in Faith. You can read more about Forward in Faith here.