"Although I did not hear specific references to women's ordination to the priesthood, the possibility of women deacons and women's preaching were openly discussed."

This is the problem.  Never should women allow themselves to be talked into not demanding exact & same ordination & treatment as men in our church.  

This is where NCR, pushing a "Future Church" agenda, needs to asks itself what role has it played & is still playing in supporting sexism & misogyny in our church.  

Would NCR or Future Church recommend that Martin Luther King,  Jr. fight for just a few more rights for blacks, every few centuries, and miss the point completely, that the civil rights movement is about human dignity not just a slightly better seat on the bus?  

NCR has somehow been highly infiltrated by "Future Church" and all this group really cares about is getting married men ordination even if that can only result in the huge injustice of gender segregation.  

Do not buy into this very harmful tactic.