>Hi Jen,
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>Best parts??? Let's the Episcopal Church ordains women, and if I recall correctly, there's a female Bishop somewhere in the northeast (I think). Now the Church of England, that's another story.
It is indeed and it was the grand old CofE that I grew up in. Even though the Episcopal Church has moved forward a lot in the past 20 years or so, I still have a real hard time with the concept of a gendered god. I prefer them either beyond gender or one (at least) of each.

Still, we have freedom of religion (at the moment, at least in the US).

I strongly suspect that in the long run it's not so much the details of what you believe and how you worship that matter nearly so much as the fact that you have faith and do your best to live according to your religion.

Either way --- time to party like it's 1999

Happy new year

Jen