On Women Priests

I have every respect for those who wish women to be priestesses. I think they are sincere and pious and sensible people. Indeed, in a way they are too sensible. That is where my dissent from them resembles Bingley’s dissent from his sister. I am tempted to say that the proposed arrangement would make us much more rational ‘but not near so much like a church.’

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“Priestesses in the Church?” in God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1970), 235. Originally published as “Notes on the Way” in Time and Tide, vol. XXIX (14 August 1948), 830-31.