Good news

[skirts4me]

It's been a LONG time coming but here's the good news I've been waiting to be able to share with you.

After 28 years on the journey and completing my theology degree fourteen years ago I've now been accepted for the last year of training to be ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia. Around the end of 2008, all being well, I will be made a deacon, and hopefully will be ordained a priest some time in 2009.

I went directly from work to my very first meeting with the bishop, and, as such, was wearing a smart skirt and sandals (it being a hot day). Though I will have to work closely with some clergy and some lay people for whom a man in a skirt is a cause for concern I will continue to do what I can to promote the issue, not only because of health and comfort but also because the church is quite good at pushing away people who express themselves differently in one form or another.

But wait: there's more!!!

My good lady wife Zara has also been accepted into the programme which will see her undertaking a Bachelor of Theology degree, starting in 2008 and, God willing, culminating in her being ordained in about five years.

This is a life-transforming change for us and for the children, and is already providing huge benefits even though we are a few weeks away from taking up the positions. Fear not, we are not going to disappear into the ether. Far from it. This community is very much in our prayers and we look forward to the time when men will once more be able to wear what is best for their anatomies free from fear of rebuke.

God bless you all.
Steven

[SkirtDude]

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[crfriend]

ALRIGHT Steven!! Congratulations on chasing -- and catching -- that dream from so long ago! Best of luck with it!

Please pass along a "Good luck" message to your lady for me as well.

[cessna152towser]

Congratulations to you and your lady.
I am confident you would be able to deal with any hypocrites by reminding them that Jesus never wore trousers.
I always wear a kilt when I attend church.

[Since1982]

Where do you get and how do you add the little bouncing ice cube to your post?? And are there other choices that can be added here?

[SkirtDude]

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[cessna152towser]

[Skirt Chaser]

Though I will have to work closely with some clergy and some lay people for whom a man in a skirt is a cause for concern I will continue to do what I can to promote the issue, not only because of health and comfort but also because the church is quite good at pushing away people who express themselves differently in one form or another.

Congratulations, Steven! It sounds like you are going to do a lot of good for a lot of people in a lot of ways.

Quiet Mouse

(And fantastic smiley, cessna!)

[Sarongman]

I skirted the issue (pun not intended) in 1982 after one year in St. Johns College, Morpeth. I joined in 1981 and, in that first month, went to the deaconing of previous local graduates, one of whom is now Archbishop of Queensland. Where are you doing your year in college? It won't be on the Eastern seaboard will it, there were a couple from the West in my year.

[skirts4me]

Sorry Sarongman, but my final year will be done while I'm on a posting in the south-west of WA (Western Australia for those in the US). Good to know that someone else here has been down the ordination line. I can't say I've trained with any archbishops but I do have an ancestor who was Archbishop of Canterbury.

[BrotherTailor]

Best of luck Steven.

In my jurisdiction you wouldn't dare attempt dressing in such a way, UNLESS, you were wearing a cassock or monastic habit Then you are perfectly acceptable and commended. I wear a floor length white gown to church every Sunday!

[GerdG]

Congratulations! And my best wishes to you and your wife. It is great that you apparently are able to wear a skirt.

Greg