(Part one of four)  . Students learn that she (Susan A. Ross) excluded men from her classes since she wanted her women students to feel free to speak.  I also (1) wanted my women students to feel free to speak and (2) was discouraged by excluding men from classes.  Accepting the tension, the problem resolved itself when I noted, on the one hand, that men spoke up because they feared if they did not speak up they would never get a chance to be heard.  Women, on the other hand, thought men who interrupted were boorish, for not waiting their turn.  While I only meant that as an observation of what was happening, the unintended result was for the men to wait their turns.


Mtnrescueguy—How long can the Church succeed while continuing to write off so many?  The dysfunctional Church is not succeeding.  Just the same, “The Lord our God comes with power” (See Isaiah 40:10ab)  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 182, Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent I