Lizzie Taylor

Women in the Church: What do ‘micro-aggressions’ mean? Bishop Mullally identified a problem that many women encounter, writes Lorraine Cavanagh

Lorraine Cavanagh in the Church Times on #Microaggressions in the @churchofengland.org.
#ItDoesntWorkForUs #NotEqualYet
#InstitutionalSexism.

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

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Clergy agreed to abide by the things listed below, as part of the 2014 Settlement on #womenbishops.
It was agreed that trust would play a big part in how arrangements would work.
@churchofengland.org clergy were trusted by Parliament to ensure these things.
That trust is destroyed.

5. All the things listed in 4. were things clergy agreed to abide by, as part of the 2014 Settlement on #womenbishops. It was agreed that trust would play a big part in how arrangements would work. @churchofengland.org clergy were trusted by Parliament to ensure these things.
That trust is destroyed

4. When was their PCC Resolution to exclude women from various roles passed?
When has it been reviewed?
Was the wider church community consulted before each meeting about it?
Has the PCC accurately ‘signalled the wish of the parish’ on this (not their own wish), as required?

3.Here’s an example for this week of no #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions: see the website of Holy Cross #Felsted.
Do you see any indication of their policy on women?
Yet they’re listed as a parish overseen by the #BishopofEbbsfleet.

www.felstedchurch.org.uk

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2. It’s all part of the bigger picture of church leaders continuing to condone the information being kept under the radar from the churchgoers, who are at the same time asked pay £ towards their @churchofengland.org church’s ministry.
#NotEqualYet @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

General Synod question answer says another CofE talking shop is ‘happy to consider’ creating a list.

1. Q 39 was another asked re #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions @churchofengland.org #Synod.
3/4 of these bishops’ websites don’t mention the word women on their front page. Most churchgoers aren’t going to research further, as to why a particular bishop is allocated to their church.

@churchofengland.org bishops were asked what they were doing to ‘ensure’,
not what they were doing to ‘hope’ or ‘encourage’.

@watch-notequalyet.bsky.social members & others have been asking, hoping & encouraging for a decade, but the clergy behaviour on lack of transparency carries on unchecked.

At the end of the ‘answer’, it says ‘it is hoped [this will encourage churches] to ‘find ways’ to ‘discuss’ their position on women’s ministry in open & clear ways. Again, hoping is not ensuring.

In my earlier post, I omitted the last, ludicrous, phrase of the answer to Question 38 for @churchofengland.org’s 7.25 General #Synod:
‘it is hoped’.
We gave up hoping many years ago. Hoping hasn’t worked.
Bishops need actually to do something effectual to ensure #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions

Worth also noting that those ‘answering’ @churchofengland.org #Synod written Questions, require precise wording for submitted questions.
Then, here for example, they do not accurately answer the precisely-worded question they’ve been asked.

Who is responsible for approving these ‘answers’?

The @churchofengland.org #Synod Representative’s question asks what’s being done to ‘ensure’, not to ‘encourage’.
The answer only speaks of encouraging.
Lay people understand from this:

‘Bishops have considered it, & decided we don’t want to ensure #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions excluding women.’

I wish I was hopeful of that.
There’ve been several iterations of ‘guidance’ so far, e.g. the ‘Maidstone Commitments’.
Until there’s a firm requirement for clarity on church websites, just as there is for the Safeguarding statements, it’ll be brazen business as usual for the dissemblers.

Text of General Synod July 2025 Question asking for leaders to ensure churchgoers are informed about any PCC Resolutions excluding women, & the Answer, which actually means ‘Nothing’

Mid 2025: yet more @churchofengland.org #Synod members ask bishops via written Questions for #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions which exclude women from equality in ministry.
The ‘answer’ actually means ‘nothing’.
But it’s hidden in a word-soup of drivel. This must end.
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Herding 2m people into an area 25sq miles in size, when in they cannot get out, for Israel to implement the 'emigration plan' (their words not ours).
Let's call this what it really is. A concentration camp,
Speak up now. We cannot let this happen on our watch.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The whole "if we want more working class vocations, we need to offer less academic pathways" thing makes me furious. We need to make all our various more/less academic pathways more accessible to people from a range of educational backgrounds. Which Queens does well, but many other TEIs do not.

[For those unfamiliar with the situation, the arrogant & lawless behaviour is that of the few vicars who would force this on their churchgoers, not the bishops. The bishops, & indeed churchgoers, need to stand up to these rogue vicars, & bring them into line.]

Screenshot of page from website of Church of England Evangelical Council advising clergy that they can impose ‘overseers’ onto their churches, which the churches don’t want.

@churchofengland.org
#PLF
When will bishops stop this arrogant & lawless behaviour?
If they are getting this ‘oversight’
<< for their parish >>,
then how could clergy think they have the right to force that on their churchgoers?

The Lucius Letters: Chapter Two - Surviving Church by Anon The Lucius Letters: Chapter Two Damon is an apprentice devil tasked with learning to undermine and weaken the Church of England and wider Anglicanism. Lucius is a senior devil mentoring appren...

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Yesterday David Lammy was unequivocal that Israel is breaking international law. Today No 10 contradicts that and says it is merely “at risk of breaching” the law. It is an extraordinary position to put the Foreign Secretary in - who will now have to say why he was wrong, or why No 10 is wrong.

@krishgm.bsky.social Well done with that interview Krish!
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Image of ChatGPT answer explaining the parliamentary backlash when General Synod failed to vote to allow women to be bishops in 2012.

Someone asked what Parliament’s approach was when the 2012 women bishops vote failed. For what it’s worth here’s ChatGPT’s answer:

#NotEqualYet
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#DiocesanSecretary role, for the #DioceseofEly
@churchofengland.org

Another comment, from Rosalind, on Thinking Anglicans, in response to @churchofengland.org bishops’ latest meeting.

#NotEqualYet @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

Screenshot of response to bishops’ statement and proposal.

#NotEqualYet
Reaction on ThinkingAnglicans to @churchofengland.org bishops’ latest meeting outcome.

Is it now time for a national consultation & then a debate in #GeneralSynod?

A start wd be requiring honestly-phrased,
genuinely-communicative
#TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions on church websites

Re the #EphesianFund

Are we really going to stand by & allow the funding of @churchofengland.org churches according to their theology? As decided by a small group?

This way lies chaos.
At some point we must stand up to this lawlessness.
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@charliebelllive.bsky.social

This church wants to exclude women from applying.
Has their PCC followed www.churchofengland.org/sites/defaul...
during this vacancy, & consulted the wider church community to see if this is actually the wish of their @churchofengland.org parish?