Rev Mark Oden defiant on call for wives to be ‘submissive’
A clergyman who sparked a row by calling on wives to be submissive and claiming that modern marriage was in crisis has refused to back down.
After a defiant service at his church in Kent, the Rev Mark Oden claimed that he had received numerous letters backing his opinion, a view that he admitted some people would see as “medieval”.
Two weeks ago the curate delivered a controversial sermon at St Nicholas’s Church in Sevenoaks in which he triggered outrage by partly blaming the high divorce rate on women no longer submitting to their husbands....