It was with considerable interest that I read First Female Moderator Faces a Church Without Walls (April). The Scottish moderator is clear that "a patriarchal, hierarchical system of church is ill disposed to reward the delicate and subtle qualities that make life a pleasure," her predecessors having all been males. That, of course, led automatically to John Knox and "the monstrous regiment."
Consider that John Knox spent much of his life exiled from Scotland because of:
- Mary of Guise, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Regent in Scotland backed by French troops and money, resulting in the uprising of 1559
- Mary I, Tudor, "Bloody Mary", from whom Knox fled England
- Catherine De Medici, Queen Regent of France, implicated in the death of four of the Scottish delegates for the return of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
