Women in Office: the CRC and its Y2K Problem/The New Millennium: Admissions and Forecasts

Women in Office: the CRC and its Y2K Problem Almost five years ago the synod (1995) of the Christian Reformed Church gave the classes of that denomination the option to declare the word "male" inoperative in their Church Order. It represented a kind of "end run" around the requirements of the Church Order. This opened the way for women to serve in the ministry (or as elders and deacons). This could be done, however, only in those classes which decided to mutilate the Church Order as the synod...