Donna L. Carlaw

You know what part of the problem I see is, if I may say a word or two. There is much reflexion on who said what to whom, when, and where – and what they meant and who they are. This comes from both sides. In that we are equal.

We do too little real reflective thinking. We are too quick to ask others questions, and too slow to ask ourselves our own questions.

We do not reflect, we react.

…and I do mean WE…

So, what I have suggested to myself and to others is to stay in your communities and discuss these things of common interest.

What do I look like when I come on an egalitarian group? You answer that question.

What do you look like when you come on a complementarian board? You answer that question.

What is helpful is to be able to read what one another is saying. that is helpful to make one think, to make one reflect.

So, just FYI. The experiments at trying to dialogue are failures – total and utter failures.

So, you read what I am reflecting on if you wish, and I will read what you are reflecting on if I wish.

Thinking through these issues is important.

So, thank you Cheryl, for allowing me to say something. I think that it is a total waste of time to discuss these issues together, but it is not a waste of time to read and think.

Maybe I suggest the reflections of a very thoughtful women? If you have not read Dorothy L. Sayers’ Letters to a Diminished Church?

It is not so much what she concludes, but rather how she arrives at her conclusions that is so lovely to read. She is, of course, a role model within the Christian classical school movement.

She seems to have been a delightful person, too. I would recommend reading her biography.

She is a woman who thought deeply about theology, and came down squarely on the side of orthodoxy.

She is a good role model. No, I am not, nor have I ever said I was. …and my story is still my story…

God bless, and please take care,
Donna L. Carlaw