Josh put up a rather legalistic list of what makes a person a Chrsitian, and I would like to respond with my definition:

A Christian is a person who belives in the contuining mission of Christ.


and on that note, Frances Kesling on women in ministry:

...What it would do is make Catholicism similar to the church that Jesus Christ established -- a church in which men and women were acknowledged as equals. If one really looks at the history of the gospels, one sees that women played the most central ministerial roles in the church's early days. After all, Jesus Christ was born to a woman, Jesus Christ was anointed to his own ministry by a woman. It was the women who stood at the cross with Jesus when he was crucified and to whom Jesus first appeared when he rose from the dead and said 'Go forth and let others know of this.'"

Kesling is the leader of Catholics for Free Choice, a radically inclusive org. that matches most of my politics, found here--coming from an article about priests and nuns in el salvador found here