We don't have the people to be able to split them off into groups. Clericalism has suppressed the laity and affected the church has a whole, despite the fact that there are not absolute or qualitative differences between ordained and lay ministry, or ordained and lay leadership, Kujawa said. We have different functions associated with the roles. For the majority of the Episcopal Church's history, Kujawa said, women have not enjoyed the same access to the church structures as men, including ordination. She noted that, although historical milestones include victories, historical change in the church has been painfully slow.
Isolation is a means of oppression.
Accountability belongs not only to the trailblazer but those who must support her, she added. Kujawa cited the need for identifying the types of formative training that will develop lay and ordained women and men for leadership roles in the church, especially mentoring of girls and young women. She said she is particularly concerned that some of the students who come to seminary express a need to be rectors to be affirmed in their ministry. Liturgy is not a retreat from the world. Safety and Christian vocation are not on the same page.