Monday, April 30, 2007

Missing the point

Apparently, the Anglicans have their first female "arch-deacon", and I'd guess also are announcing their lack of facility with the Greek language, even apart from Paul's admonition that a deacon must be a "one woman man." How one becomes a "high servant" (literal translation) is beyond me, and the parallels between this and the Water Buffalo Lodge and the Grand Poo-Bah are stunning.

Or maybe it's a little bit of shift from 1 Timothy that's required to accomodate the redefinition of "overseer" (episcopos, pastor/teacher/elder) as "Senior Top Management Vice President" (a real title in my company, sigh).

On another note, I hope all of y'all remembered that "every day is Earth Day." I celebrated this by cutting down two more trees and using their wood to burn out a stump.

3 comments:

Mark said...

We celebrated yesterday by roasting hot dogs over an open fire.

Anonymous said...

Couldn't Joseph ben Jacob of Egypt tell you something about what it means to be a high servant? ;-)

An Anglican arch-deacon is one who has charge over deacons. I don't think it's as oxymoronic as all that.

Now the female thing...

Bike Bubba said...

I guess one could argue that if one accepts the notion of a hierarchy in the church beyond the notion of deacons and elders, you would probably get there. It's still an odd notion, though, and it should be remembered that Yoseph was the "overseer" there too--which ought to point out to the Anglicans exactly which office would oversee deacons.