I agree with who said coming to a table solves a lot of issues. I'm much more concerned about woman lecturing and reading scripture from the pulpit, which is also happening in the PCA. My church's presbytery has a church plant that is having their 'on staff theologian,' a woman, give the lectionary (another issue), during the worship service. The church apparently had mis-classed the audio recordings as sermons and got some letters to the session complaining. I know not the whys or wherefores, but the presbytery took up the issue and whatever committee was dealing with it voted unanamously, 'nothing to see here.' Somehow though some concern was expressed and they appointed a committee to study it. So we'll see. When asked (N.B. I'm going on just one hearsay report on this) of the pastor, what is the difference between a woman preaching and a woman giving the lectionary, his reply was, well, the session doesn't call it preaching. Maybe Edward has heard about this and knows more.
