ORDINATION OF WOMEN
IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
(Sunday) There is an interesting article (.pdf file -- and you'll have to scroll to find it) about the ordination of women in the Eastern Orthodox tradition in the current issue of Word magazine, a publication of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. The author, Fr. Matthew Streett, displays an amazing openness to the ordination of women to the diaconate. I also learned that the Orthodox church considers St. Junias, a woman, to be an apostle. Junias is a woman's name at the end of Paul's letter to the Romans (Romans 16:7). She is mentioned as among the apostles. Some fundamentalist Protestants are bothered by fact that a woman would be counted among the apostles and have tried (rather weakly, from my perspective) to argue that Junias was really a man's name. Apparently, they are unaware of the Orthodox tradition.

There was an additional article about the ordination of women in the January issue of the same magazine. Link