Alice C. Linsley
Some readers of Just Genesis know that I was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1988 in the Diocese of Pennsylvania by Bishop Allan Bartlett. I left the Episcopal Church on the Sunday that Gene Robinson was consecrated bishop in New Hampshire.

I believe that I was a caring and effective church administrator and I trust that God was able to use my offerings, meager as they were at times. Yet as I stood at the altar, I sometimes had the feeling that I didn't belong there, or that I was wearing someone else's shoes. Indeed the priest wears the shoes of the Man Jesus Christ, the universal ruler-priest. Not every man can wear those shoes, and they are not meant to be worn by women ever.
(Shown right: priest of the ancient Nile Valley)
After I renounced my ordination vows I was able to dedicate myself to research and began to explore the origins of the priesthood as a biblical anthropologist. If you are interested in some of my conclusions, you might want to read some of these articles:
Ancient Words for Priests
God as Male Priest
Ten Objections to Women Priests
The Priesthood as Heavenly Ordinance
Males as Spiritual Leaders: Two Patterns
The Priesthood is About the Blood
Why Women Were Never Priests
What is a Priest?
C.S. Lewis on Women Priests
The Priesthood in Anthropological Perspective
Terah Means Priest
Aaron Was Buried in Edom
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