I've been brought up a Christian. My family were originally members of the Church of England, but after they began to accept female clergy in the 1990s, my father could no longer support them. "Jesus chose twelve male disciples, and that's enough for me," he once told me. Tragically, there isn't truly a local church which represents our beliefs, and so we still attend our local (Church of England) church (with only male clergy), and my father teaches us every Sunday afternoon. | I've been brought up a Christian. My family were originally members of the Church of England, but after they began to accept female clergy in the 1990s, my father could no longer support them. "Jesus chose twelve male disciples, and that's enough for me," he once told me. Tragically, there isn't truly a local church which represents our beliefs, and so we still attend our local (Church of England) church (with only male clergy), and my father teaches us every Sunday afternoon. |