What will this girl think of next? Not bad for a lady born in 1959. Barbie has been ordained as an Episcopalian Priest. This move is a 2nd career for Miss Barbie. A little bio from the Deacon’s Bench (which is a Roman Catholic site):
The 11.5-inch-tall fictional graduate of Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., has donned a cassock and surplice and is rector at St. Barbara’s-by-the-Sea in (where else?) Malibu, Calif.
She arrived at the church fully accessorized, as is Barbie’s custom. Her impeccably tailored ecclesiastical vestments include various colored chasubles (the sleeveless vestments worn at Mass) for every liturgical season, black clergy shirt with white collar, neat skirt and heels, a laptop with prepared sermon and a miniature, genuine Bible.
Apparently a devotee of the “smells and bells” of High Church tradition, the Rev. Barbie even has a tiny thurible, a metal vessel used for sending clouds of incense wafting toward heaven.
The Rev. Barbie, who in less than a week had drawn nearly 3,000 friends on her Facebook page, spends most of her time in the office of the Rev. Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew, rector of Christ (Episcopal) Church, in Manlius, N.Y., near Syracuse.
The Episcopalian Church began ordaining women in 1976. A handful of women were ordained before then but it wasn’t with the official sanction of the Episcopalian Church. The current leader of the church is Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, a real gutsy lady who is not without controversy. The American Episcopalian Church has undergone what many would consider a schism because of its official position on ordaining women and the role of gays in the church. I hope Barbie knows she is stepping in to a hornet’s nest.
Apparently Reverend Barbie isn’t for sale yet. Perhaps she will never be. The Mattel site sure isn’t featuring her. If there is enough interest, perhaps Mattel will ‘ordain’ her for sale. Should action figure dolls become religious figures? Today we have Reverend Barbie. There were rumors of Burka Barbie. Do we next have Taliban Ken? Rabbi Joe? Father What-a-Waste? Ayatollah Andy, G. I. Jesus? Where do we stop? Does having a ‘doll of the cloth’ cheapen religion or does it enhance it?
Where is censoredbybvbl?? She will love this.
Ha ha, Lafayette, I am right here! Church leadership – one more glass ceiling for Barbie to shatter! I remember having a nun doll as a child – I wasn’t Catholic and but was fascinated by the habit. My mother protested but finally relented. The doll eventually joined my other dolls – as swimmers and cropped haired victims of my childhood fascination with beauty parlors.
My Barbies now patrol the hood with their lists of neighborhood offenses and I shoot them with my camera.
LMAO! Love your proposed additions to Barbie’s religious family, MH!
Censored, I still have the nun doll my mother owned as a child. When I was a kid, that nun broke up some nasty pool parties at Barbie’s town house.
I was always fascinated by the habit, too. I was also fascinated by the loincloth-like underwear under the habit. I wondered if nun’s underwear really looked like that.
Does Rev. Barbie wear underwear? A bra? Anything but the robe?
Pinko, you are probably the type who wants to look under a scotsman’s kilt! 🙄
Ok, Censoreded, what did the nun doll wear under the habit? What order was the nun doll?
@Moon-howler
How’d you guess?
This conversation is enough to make an old geezer blogger blush.
M-h, I suspect that she wore something similar to Pinko’s doll – or granny panties. I think she had no hair – wah, how I loved to chop off dolls’ hair. I have no idea what happened to her.
I didn’t play with dolls very much. When I did, they took a trip to the beauty parlor, went swimming, or were characters in mysteries or biographies. Ha ha – I’ve come full circle.
My girls were all highly irreverent with any Barbies they were ever given by unwitting family or friends. They hated the dolls. If they were human, the dolls would have died of drowning or exposure, and their hair wouldn’t stand a chance. I don’t think a religious version would have gotten any better treatment.
Sorry Wolverine. Close your eyes!!!!
Pinko, I was happy to see finally, what Mormon underwear looked like. Big Love was the great enlightener.
Emma, I sure didn’t have any dolls left over for display. They swam, got hair cuts, got frizzed, etc.
@Moon-howler I thought that Mormon underwear was SO hot, I looked all over Victoria’s Secret and couldn’t find any after that episode. They must have been sold out and on back-order.
Bwwaaahahaha…you can probably get it from the catalog.
http://www.cafepress.com/+flds+underwear-panties
Just a little something to help us through til next year:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/runningforalife/ (for Juturna and Laf also)
How about those hot-pink “I wanna be a sister wife” boy shorts? That cracked me up.
The next time a couple of those young Mormon missionary guys come to my door, I’m going to ask them about this Mormon underwear business….in the name of all the ladies at Monnhowlings,net!!!
Emma, I was all pleased with myself for finding that catalog. snicker. Those were funny!!!
I am reading about that girl Fawn wo escaped.
Wolverine, let me know what they tell you. My next door neighbors always acted like they were too modest to talk about it. I had to wait for Big Love!
Thanks for the help. The unfortunate thing is this is a true story. I read part one of Fawn’s heartbreaking story.