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🧵 Summary of the transparency issue that is affecting women in the @churchofengland:
1 In the 8 years since women were finally ‘allowed’ to be bishops, a problem has developed in the church.
1 In the 8 years since women were finally ‘allowed’ to be bishops, a problem has developed in the church.
2 When the legislation was passed in 2014, an exemption was agreed by Parliament, allowing those clergy/churches who don’t believe women should have equality with men in church ministry to carry on excluding women from being priests/vicars & bishops, etc.
3 Numbers aren’t made readily accessible, but it seems there’re 100s of these churches/clergy - perhaps 5% of the @churchofengland - in these 2 groups:
A #MaleHeadship #Complementarian #ConservativeEvangelical
B #MaleOnlyPriesthood #TraditionalAngloCatholic #ForwardinFaith
A #MaleHeadship #Complementarian #ConservativeEvangelical
B #MaleOnlyPriesthood #TraditionalAngloCatholic #ForwardinFaith
The #BishopofMaidstone (in newsletters) has asked #MaleHeadship-espousing churches to decide whether to be transparent with @churchofengland churchgoers about their #PCCResolution for #MaleOnlyPriesthood+female submission in church. You couldn’t make it up. What did they decide? 
>>> You can find these sections in his two most recent newsletters, written for ‘complementarian’ @churchofengland church leaders (those who espouse #MaleHeadship & #FemaleSubmission in church life & marriage).
bishopofmaidstone.org/wp-content/upl…
@ChurchTimes @MadsDavies @synod @WATCH_ACT
bishopofmaidstone.org/wp-content/upl…
@ChurchTimes @MadsDavies @synod @WATCH_ACT
They have genuinely been debating whether to be transparent
with the churchgoers who support them financially + the wider world
about their policy of excluding women from ministry leadership.
Genuinely.
This is the @churchofengland we are talking about.
Jaw on floor.
with the churchgoers who support them financially + the wider world
about their policy of excluding women from ministry leadership.
Genuinely.
This is the @churchofengland we are talking about.
Jaw on floor.
