[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Jay Weigel]

Meh. S/O is bearded and I fully approve. My late ex had a mustache and I
once told him that if he ever shaved it off, we were through (but that's
not why I divorced him, in the end) but he couldn't grow a decent beard, it
came in patchy. Adam grew a beard post-Iraq, that would have looked really
fine if he'd trimmed it. No problem with them.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/22/2016 7:10:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> roy.murphy at gmail.com writes:
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> https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/22-january/features/features/and
> -esau-was-an-hairy-man
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> "BEARDS  are fashionable again, but the subject of facial hair and the
> clergy stirs  strong emotions. The bearded King Edward VII, in enjoining
> Archbishop Cosmo  Gordon Lang to “stop curates wearing moustaches”, gave
> voice to the general  hostility of the Christian tradition to hair confined
> to the upper lip; but  there the consensus ends.">>>>>>>>
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> Except in Eastern Christianity where beards are the norm.
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> In my experience, men generally like facial hair, but women do
> not, probably because it's one of the few things women can't
> do (at least well!).
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> David Strang - Fully bearded.  King Edward VII would  approve,
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