What lessons does the experience of the church in 1930s Germany teach us today?
In November 1995 I was flying back from a meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society), of Biblical Literature in Philadelphia. A group of eight or ten women, who had been associated earlier with the radical feminist Re-Imagining conference, were returning from the same conference I had attended.
Across the aisle of the plane they were discussing 'the take-over of the denomination at the big showdown in Albuquerque' in 1996. At Albuquerque the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), (my denomination), was scheduled to make a definitive decision on the question of the ordination of practising homosexuals. The talk in the plane was how to commandeer the process in favour of ordaining homosexuals.
