Amendment O on homosexuality and marriage. I hope it will be defeated. Instead on both issues we prefer a polity battle that suppresses all voices not useful to amending the Book of Order . We seem to lack the courage and perseverance required to achieve anything.
Theological debate stirs the blood and excites the mind.
When it proceeds in mutual trust it may deepen faith, enoble piety and turn the heart Godward. Unenforceable amendments to the Book of Order discourage faith and trivialize Christian practice. For us Holy Communion is a means of grace, a sign that by faith seals the Word in our hearts and lives, and builds up the church. The refusal to think theologically about the meaning of ordination is the elephant in the entrance hall that everyone sidesteps on the way to win or to defeat the next overture. No one has a right to be ordained.