Women deacons?

The Methodists gather to argue about gay people again
Religion News Service: It's a titanic clash, epic, truly tragic, unresolvable, filled with conflict and pain, says David Gushee. It's all so very, very sad.
United Methodist Reporter: And are we yet alive?

If the church is so great, then why are you teaching in seminary?'
Baptist News Global: As Brett Younger returns to the church after eight years in the seminary, he's made a list of things he will miss and things he's glad to leave behind.

Women deacons?
The Atlantic: Pope Francis has said he'll create a commission to study the possibility of females serving as deacons the Church. What does this mean for Catholics?
Catholic News Service: Pope thanks nuns for telling him there's a 'disconnect'

Julian of Norwich: How an unknown hermit produced one of the Church's greatest spiritual treasures
Christian Today: It was on this day, May 13, when she was about 30 years old, that Julian recovered from a serious illness that had left her near death.

For Amish, long trip to chiropractor can be fun
Mennonite World Review: Based on personal recommendations, vanloads of Amish travel from as far as Delaware and New York to Canistota, S.D., for treatments at the renowned Ortman Chiropractic Clinic.