Sounds like a good idea. Let's see if someone takes the bait.

This is not a simple argument and perhaps something it would be good to explore in a sermon series? What do you think?

I think it would be really interesting!

However our parish profile (the document that was produced to give to potential candidates for being the new Rector) states the Rector will



This is not a simple argument and perhaps something it would be good to explore in a sermon series? What do you think?

Interesting question! i don't think there's an official policy but I may be wrong and am happy to be corrected on this point!

Our patron is the Church Society Trust and this is from their website:

In 1992 the Church of England General Synod voted to allow women to be ordained as ‘Priests’ in the Church of England. The most numerous opposition to this came from anglo-catholics but many evangelicals also rejected the change. Church Society was amongst those upholding the traditional line and the Society took legal action to block the legislation as being beyond the powers of the General Synod.
These pages seek to explain why the Society continues to maintain that women should not be presbyters or priests in the Church of God.

So I think it is unlikely a woman will be appointed at St Andrew's...