I was saddened to read in the last United Church Observer that the denomination that has done so much work to include women in leadership roles in the church was only able to muster the nomination of one woman for the next moderator out of a pool of six persons.  Certainly, some would point to our attempts as a denomination to make the language of our liturgies, hymns, and sermons more gender inclusive, and say that these changes have been merely cosmetic.

ok, here I was thinking the thread on "progressive christianity & afterlife"  was going to be do churches have an afterlife after progress christianity.