slavery last century; many think that there is good reason for changing the tradition concerning women’s ordination today.) As the body of the church, we remind ourselves that we need one another in our tasks of clarifying a Christian mind and finding guidelines for Christian behaviour. It is with ‘all the saints’ (Ephesians 3:8) that we come to know the love of God. There is in fact no ‘biblical ethics’ which stands apart from theology and spirituality. For the people of God in the Bible, morality