{"id":61,"date":"2010-04-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/fun-friday-barbie-gets-ordained-no-word-on-ken.html"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:00:00","slug":"fun-friday-barbie-gets-ordained-no-word-on-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/fun-friday-barbie-gets-ordained-no-word-on-ken.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Barbie Gets Ordained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing &#8220;Fun Friday,&#8221; my take on the most entertaining religion news of the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Hands down,&nbsp;as I&nbsp;came down off my Greek Easter food coma to a week of&nbsp;more clergy sex abuse news and the West Virginia coal mine disaster, what made me smile was&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/barbie_gets_ordained_and_has_the_wardrobe_to_match\/\">the debut of the Rev. Barbie, an Episcopal priest<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Barbie-225x300.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/70\/import\/Barbie-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/people\/barbie_ordained_to_the_priesth_1.html\">Episcopal Cafe has more <\/a>on her new calling, though it&#8217;s not yet clear how the fashion icon plans to juggle parish duties with her thriving&nbsp;medical, teaching&nbsp;and dancing careers,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304198004575171791681002592.html\">heeding the public&#8217;s demand that she pursue computer engineering and anchoring a newscast<\/a>, plus&nbsp;her&nbsp;many&nbsp;other hobbies. Maybe that sporty&nbsp;pink convertible doubles as a time machine or cloning device.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, for some reason I always thought Barbie was Jewish, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2005-11-30\/entertainment\/17400276_1_ruth-handler-leonard-shlain-jewish-today\">like her creator<\/a>, rather than Protestant.&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adl.org\/main_Arab_World\/barbie.htm\">Saudi Arabian religious police&nbsp;certainly seemed to think so<\/a>, a few years back.) Was she a shiksa all along, or did she convert? No word yet on whether Ken also plans to join the clergy. If he&#8217;s anything like the Ken dolls of my youth, he probably should locate a pair of pants first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing &#8220;Fun Friday,&#8221; my take on the most entertaining religion news of the past week. Hands down,&nbsp;as I&nbsp;came down off my Greek Easter food coma to a week of&nbsp;more clergy sex abuse news and the West Virginia coal mine disaster, what made me smile was&nbsp;the debut of the Rev. Barbie, an Episcopal priest. Episcopal Cafe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fun Friday: Barbie Gets Ordained - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/fun-friday-barbie-gets-ordained-no-word-on-ken.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fun Friday: Barbie Gets Ordained - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Introducing &#8220;Fun Friday,&#8221; my take on the most entertaining religion news of the past week. 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