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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

3 years

Thank you ⁦ @davewalker ⁩ for articulating the current situation in the ⁦ @churchofengland ⁩, with hidden PCC policies on male-only priesthood & leadership.

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WATCH hopes and prays for the flourishing of women, both ordained and lay, in @churchofengland in 2023. This means, among other things, that there should be no further appointments of diocesan bishops who do not fully accept the ministry of women priests in all respects.

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Women and the Church

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How very sad that clergy in @dioceseoflondon have to have two separate Chrism masses so that those who do not accept female priests can reaffirm their ordination vows on their own. It's time for women and men to be treated equally in @churchofengland

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

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The Bishop of Fulham

@bishopoffulham

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Great Fulham Chrism Mass today!

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Women and the Church

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11 months

It used to be in @churchofengland that yr bishop was yr bishop, come what may & whatever his theology. Now you can opt for a different bishop on one matter alone-if you don't believe women shd be priests/leaders.It's time to find a way to bring this divisive arrangement to an end

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Nearly all participating bishops lay hands on +Hertford, a female bishop...

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Thank you @DoverBishop for having the courage to say that the arrangements allowing discrimination against women are not working - & we should not go down this path on LLF. #itsabouttime we now find a generous way to bring the arrangements to an end. Join @WATCH_ACT to help

Robert Thompson (he/him)

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1 year

Thank you @DoverBishop for your passion and honesty. #LLF #Synod

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Have @churchofengland people realised this? In the past WATCH represented a minority, asking for equal treatment for women. Now it voices the mainstream view of CofE churches on this: more than 95% of churches have chosen to have men & women ministering equally, side by side.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Interesting comment from @janeeecharman on the Thinking Anglicans website’s section on the appointment of the bishop of Blackburn:

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@WATCH_ACT

11 months

Imagine a @churchofengland where clergy are not afraid to say what they think b/c they are afraid this will get them into trouble with senior clergy or a black mark when they are looking for their next appointment. Imagine an #honestchurch where we encourage ppl to speak freely.

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2 years

...only three lay hands on +Ebbsfleet who does not recognise female bishops

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7 months

'There are women & girls and men & boys all over the country attending @churchofengland churches that teach either directly or indirectly that women need to be under the authority of men and this needs to be recognised as wrong and frankly dangerous.

Restarting the Conversation About Equality for Women in the Church of England

by Rev Martine Oborne, Chair of WATCH (Women and the Church), a group that works for gender equality in the Church of England A couple of years ago I was talking with a bishop about the LLF debates...

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@WATCH_ACT

6 months

It's 30 years since women were 'allowed' to become priests. But it's also 30 years since churches and clergy were 'allowed' not to accept them. Let's finally give women a whole-hearted welcome to @churchofengland by simply treating us equally

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Bringing to an end the arrangements that provide for institutional discrimination against women and a divided episcopate do not need to involve forcing people to leave, but stopping ordaining new priests who do not fully accept women as priests and leaders

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Women and the Church

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2 years

Why are female clergy cheering for a bishop who doesn’t believe in female priests? | Martine Oborne

The ordination of the C of E’s first diocesan bishop since 2014 who refuses to ordain women is nothing to celebrate, says vicar Martine Oborne

www.theguardian.com

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Women and the Church

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So many wonderful photos on this tag! We can’t retweet them all but congratulations, faithful ones! Bless you for all you do. #ThisIsWhatAPriestLooksLike

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Women and the Church

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11 months

Why are female clergy being licensed to posts by bishops who don't accept @churchofengland has the authority to ordain them & wdn't receive the sacraments from them - in the name of #mutualflourishing - but male clergy who don't fully accept women's ministry have special bishops?

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Women and the Church

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It was jolly nice of men to 'allow' women to be priests in @churchofengland 30yrs ago (on the proviso that our priestly/leadership roles cd still be limited.) But we don't want favours, we want equality - as is just and true to the Gospel. #stillnotthereforwomensequalityincofe

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

6 years

So many congratulations to Vivienne Faull as it is announced that she will be the next Bishop of Bristol.

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

In view of the situation, it would be wise to pause confirming the appointment of the proposed ?non-ordaining @churchofengland diocesan bishop of Blackburn, till the practical arrangements are explained for a. ordinations b. reciprocal episcopal provision for egalitarian churches

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

10 months

Some factions in @churchofengland simply refuse to accept #synod decisions when they don't like them (eg on #PLF ) & then press for 'structural differentiation' so they can further divide our Church. It's time to say a firm no to this destructive bullying

Plotting the Division of the Church of England

by Nic Tall, member of General Synod and Secretary of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group If you have been paying attention to the church press recently, you will have a sense of grumblings...

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@WATCH_ACT

7 years

If leaders of a @c_of_e church pass a Resolution seeking male headship, please put this clearly on church website so yr churchgoers can know

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@WATCH_ACT

4 months

2024 London ordinations. For those who don't understand @churchofengland jargon, * means 'don't accept CofE has authority to ordain women' and ** means 'don't accept women can have leadership roles.' Sadly, 2000yrs of women's faithful ministries but #NotEqualYet

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@WATCH_ACT

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Thank you Sir Peter @PBottomleyMP et al, for speaking out on the situation that has developed affecting women clergy & church members in the @churchofengland , & for being willing to take action. @synod @kayaburgess @harrietsherwood @GabriellaSwerl @ChurchTimes

Jayne Ozanne

@JayneOzanne

1 year

Father of the House, @PBottomleyMP warns @churchofengland that unless the Church removes the exemptions they hold to the #EqualityAct 'then @UKParliament will do it for it'! Great support for @WATCH_ACT & its important work #itsabouttime @WATCHChair

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Women and the Church

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4 years

Looking forward to a church where inclusion is no longer an issue.

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@WATCH_ACT

5 years

We had a very fruitful meeting of our National Committee yesterday, round a table under a portrait of Elizabeth 1: the person who - with Parliament - established the @churchofengland in its final form. A woman. Not a man. Worth remembering when some still oppose women’s ministry.

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@WATCH_ACT

5 months

Women in @churchofengland are often told to set aside anger in favour of a more 'gracious' approach to change. But anger can be empathetic, compassionate, wise & powerful. The women we admire most have all found ways to translate their anger into meaningful and liberating change.

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@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Sometimes people ask whether @WATCH_ACT represents all women in @churchofengland and, for clarity, the answer is no. We stand for women & men who want to see full equality for women in the Church & an end to arrangements that make our Church unjust, untrue to the Gospel & unsafe

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@WATCH_ACT

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When women say they can't flourish in @churchofengland because they are diminished by institutional discrimination and the pressure to accept this, the response is usually for ppl to shout at us ever louder saying MUTUALLY FLOURISH!! But you can't beat ppl into flourishing...

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

🧵1 A member of our team visited @StEbbesChurch in Oxford on Friday, to see if any information was provided to advise the St Ebbe’s congregation & visitors about their PCC’s policy of limiting women’s ministry / leadership roles. @UCCF @the_OICCU @SCM_Britain

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2 years

After 10yrs of trying to make mutual flourishing work where ppl in @churchofengland both affirm women as priests & bishops and also don't accept them, it’s time to look at things again. Does appointing @BpBurnley as a new diocesan bishop demand just too much 'gracious restraint'?

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

The #Blackburn appointment is not just about @cofelancs . If it goes ahead, next would be a #ConservativeEvangelical diocesan bishop. They believe women should submit to men in church & marriage & home life. It’s unthinkable. This is the UK. @BBCNews @BBCWomansHour @synod

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@WATCH_ACT

6 months

The first women to be ordained as priests in the London diocese were not, however, ordained by the then Bishop of London, Graham Leonard, because he remained staunchly against the ordination of women – they were ordained by the Bishop of Southwark, Roy Williamson.

BishopSarah

@bishopSarahM

6 months

Today and tomorrow I'm remembering with gratitude the rich and varied ministries of all the women ordained priest in @StPaulsLondon @dioceseoflondon in April 1994, together with all who have served here since, and those whose love, gifts and service bless our Diocese

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Women and the Church

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10 months

Just for clarity, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet was not appointed to oversee a region called Ebbsfleet, but to oversee churches who - after 30yrs of female priests - still don't accept us as church leaders, vicars or bishops or allow us to teach men, whatever our gifts or education.

Charlie Bell 🏳️‍🌈

@charliebelllive

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The Bishop of Ebbsfleet saying that flying bishops is *not sufficient* for ‘moral objections’. This is all getting absolutely out of hand. It would silly if it wasn’t so unchristian.

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4 years

1 The data from the Women’s Ministry Statistics 2020 also shows: > Carlisle, Chichester, Exeter + London dioceses still have only less than 20% women in stipendiary posts as vicars and rectors.

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2 years

Men who don’t ordain or take communion from women can flourish in ministry, & be flying or suffragan bishops. But diocesan bishops are responsible for the spiritual care of the laity, providing them with ministers & genuine sacraments. Ideally, they shd also be a #FocusOfUnity .

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5 years

1 Hello @churchofengland . It’s #InternationalWomenDay2020 . Here’s a step our bishops can take to protect our own women + girls. The Church has an ongoing problem with lack of transparency on the websites of Resolution churches about their #maleheadship / #malepriesthood policy.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Congratulations to those women who have recently celebrated 25 years since their ordination to the priesthood. -

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6 months

@DrStaceyRand says 'After my training, I was asked to do an unpaid curacy [because it was assumed, as a married woman, I would get pregnant]... & my husband would support me.' This is the sexism women in @churchofengland face. It's abt time things changed.

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Since 2014, with the determined appointments of bishops who don’t believe women are called to be priests, we’ve seen that #MutualFlourishing means women have to put up, shut up, & be overseen by men who don’t believe in their priestly calling. This is not flourishing for women.

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11 months

Most ppl want @churchofengland , as our national church, to treat all people equally. Not in order to reflect the cultural mores of our times but to reflect justice, the Gospel and love, which are the cultural mores of the kingdom of God. Keep the hope that this kingdom will come.

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5 years

1 Know someone starting at university soon, who’ll be choosing a church to attend? If they care about whether their new church offers equal opportunities to women & men, they need to know that some large #conservativeevangelical @churchofengland churches...

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@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Let there be no doubt: the tweets on transparency from this account are @churchofengland lay women’s pleas for information on what is being done to them. Let’s just let that sink in.

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2 years

If the figures showed that women’s’ ministry was flourishing under bishops who don’t think women should be priests, then we might support this. But the figures are actually shocking. e.g. @ChichesterDio -only 16% in <stipendiary> ministry are women #MutualFlourishingIsntWorking

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

What alternative do women clergy of Blackburn diocese have but publicly to express support for him? What would the consequences be for their career if they didn’t? What has been said publicly doesn’t correspond with what’s been said confidentially to us.

Anger as female clergy opponent nominated as Bishop of Blackburn

Promoting a junior bishop who has opposed women being ordained is "painful", an inclusivity group says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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6 months

Even in the 1980s it wd have been shocking & illegal to tell a 30yo female employee that it was 'too risky' to invest in the training she needed bc she might get pregnant.But @churchofengland with its exemptions under Equality Act still gets away with this

Leadership for Change: A Response to 'The Sexism Women Continue to Face in the Church of England'

by Rev Dr Stacey Rand, Senior Research Fellow in Social Care at the University of Kent Revd Martine Oborne’s recent article explored the experience of discrimination faced by many female clergy in...

viamedia.news

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Women cannot flourish in a church which allows hidden practices to determine their futures. Please support us today at the WATCH AGM, from 11am at St John’s Waterloo, SE1 8TY #mutualflourishing #churchgenderjustice @churchofengland

Church Times

@ChurchTimes

5 years

Most conservative Evangelical parishes not transparent on male headship, survey suggests Bishop of Maidstone’s plea for transparency unheeded

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@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Here are some questions @churchofengland churchgoers can ask their vicar, church wardens or PCC members, if they want to check whether their church leaders have opted for male-led ministry: #churchtransparency

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@WATCH_ACT

11 months

Yesterday's @churchofengland did not allow women to be priests/leaders. Today's church still allows limits to be put on their ministries. Let's now embrace tomorrow's church - where women can use all their Godgiven gifts and all people are treated equally. It can & will happen.

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@WATCH_ACT

10 months

We do accept that synod's decision. But we believe that it is now time for synod to bring those arrangements to an end and for @churchofengland to be a national church that treats all people equally and gives up its exemptions under The Equality Act.

Fr Chris Phillips

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Do you mean the synod that introduced the flying bishops, which you continue to refuse to accept?

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10 months

Our dream is for a @churchofengland that treats all people equally - where there are no more special bishops and arrangements for those who don't want this. Don't let anyone tell you it's impossible. Join me 3-4pm at Pret SouthKen to explore the vision, if you can.

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5 years

It’s our Residential meeting today and tomorrow. Please pray for us in our work for gender equality in the @churchofengland , and encouraging others with this in the wider #AnglicanCommunion and beyond.

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@WATCH_ACT

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In the King’s Speech, the legislation to allow #WomenBishops to leapfrog over their male colleagues to take their place in the Lords has been extended. The original 10 years expired without the desired effect because so few women have been nominated as diocesans.

Church Times

@ChurchTimes

3 months

Legislation introduced in 2015 which means that newly appointed women bishops are fast-tracked into one of the 26 seats reserved for bishops in the House of Lords is to be renewed

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Logically, it is simply impossible for someone who doesn’t believe in women’s call to priestly ministry to share the cure of souls with them.

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@WATCH_ACT

11 months

After countless years when all theological colleges were always led by men, it's not only an interesting development - it's most welcome!

Jan Payne 🎼⛪♿

@elymusic1

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@RidleyHall That both CofE theological colleges in Cambridge will be led by women is an interesting development. Congratulations to Dr Hanley on her appointment and 🙏🙏 for her new ministry

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Did you know separate ordination services are arranged in @churchofengland for those who don't accept female priests & those who do? And this is condoned? Theo Hobson speaks abt the division created by clergy continuing to reject female priests. Tix here.

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Lay members & clergy of the @churchofengland are calling for transparency from leaders of #maleheadship & #malepriesthood churches, about their beliefs & practices affecting lay women & women’s vocations. How long do we have to wait? @synod

Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 years

Hidden practices in the @churchofengland

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6 months

There are not two integrities. There is one integrity and provision for those who don't accept it.

John Chilver

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6 months

Time for @WATCH_ACT to accept that there continues to be two integrities in the Church of England and both are deserving of respect

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7 years

#suffragette100 Did you know that individual church members can vote + even participate in the governance of the @c_of_e ? Lay people as well as clergy govern it. You can work for change. Could you stand for election as a Lay Representative for the General Synod? Or just yr PCC?

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7 months

This is such an offensive thing to say - given how hard female clergy work up and down the country fulfilling their Godgiven vocations, despite their orders not being recognised by colleagues in their own church

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

www.eventbrite.co.uk

FrTimJHandley

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@WATCH_ACT @dioceseoflondon @churchofengland It’s sad because of the church’s decision to ordain women. We didn’t cause the split.

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7 years

Is it now time that all of the @c_of_e at every level stopped using the word 'churchmanship'? Isn't 'tradition' a good alternative?

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@WATCH_ACT

11 months

The arrangements in @churchofengland which allow churches to have extended or alternative episcopal oversight because they don't believe women should be priests/leaders needs to come to an end. Even if we disagree, we should all remain in communion.

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Yesterday’s @BBCTheOneShow had a great segment, starting about 3 mins 16 secs in, on the stories of a group of young women who are training for ordination to priesthood in the @churchofengland .

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4 years

Thank you to the men who support our work and attend our meetings: it’s so encouraging.

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1 year

A male @churchofengland clergyman, who spends an inordinate amount of time on Twitter, tells lay & clergy women who are trying to speak about what’s being done to them & be heard, to keep quiet &… stop spending so much time on Twitter. Shameful arrogance & misogyny. #ChurchToo

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6 months

In calling for a good end to the 2014 Declaration, WATCH hopes that all can remain in the @churchofengland . Also that at an agreed point in the future we will no longer ordain male priests who don’t fully accept women’s ministry. #NotEqualYet #UnityMatters

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Thanks @sallyBarnes3 - @SCM_Britain & @WATCH_ACT are calling for an #honestchurch in @churchofengland where churches state in clear language the limits they put on women's ministry & their theologocal position regarding LGBT+ issues. #itsabouttime we stopped discrimination #synod

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5 years

1 For those not aware: when the @churchofengland voted in 1992 to allow women to become priests + then in 2014 bishops, those opposing this on theological grounds were allowed to continue to exclude women from ministry leadership roles, if their PCC passed a Resolution about it.

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@WATCH_ACT

5 months

Neil Kinnock once said, 'Even the broadest church has walls.' We'd do well to remember this in @churchofengland & to dismantle the institutionalised discrimination against women & others. Let's be a church that respects protected characteristics & treats ppl equallly #NotEqualYet

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@WATCH_ACT

4 years

Article on the transparency situation in ⁦ @churchofengland ⁩ churches where the PCC has passed a Resolution for #MaleHeadship or ‘ #Complementarian ‘ ministry & leadership in which women are ‘subject’ to the male leaders). #FairCofEVocations #ChurchGenderJustice

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

A statement from WATCH -

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Announced today @bishopoffulham to have episcopal oversight of Edmonton Area (during vacancy) without arrangements for clergy who may not flourish under a bishop who is on Exec of Forward in Faith & doesn't recognise @churchofengland had/has authority to ordain women as priests.

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Women and the Church

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5 years

1 Things have moved on in the @churchofengland . It’s no longer acceptable for the group of clergy still subscribing to #maleheadship / #malepriesthood to simply keep quiet about how they actively control & limit what they let women do in their churches #transparentchurch @synod

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6 years

Rev Canon Dr Alison Joyce: Comment on how troubling it is when the churches which still reject the ordained ministry of women do not always make this clear to inquirers + even members of their own congregations. ⁦ @churchofengland ⁩ ⁦ @synod ⁩

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4 years

Transparency is critical to maintaining trust.

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2 years

The view from the gallery for our AGM as we join onsite and online. Very good to be back at St John’s, Waterloo.

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5 years

Congratulations to those women who have recently celebrated 25 years since their ordination to the priesthood. -

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@WATCH_ACT

4 years

Pope changes law so women are allowed to perform tasks in mass

Decision means Catholic church is ‘recognising accepted practices’ around the world

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

A Woman’s Place is in the House of Bishops’: Remembering the Church of England’s Campaign for Women’s Ordination -

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@WATCH_ACT

1 year

If your diocese has a vacancy for a bishop, here are recently published examples of dioceses expressing their wish for equality in ministry in their diocesan profiles, or ‘Statements of Need’. You can ask for this in yours too.

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2 years

'One priest told me that she was considering leaving the diocese. “I’m concerned that a diocesan bishop who is non-affirming — however graciously they hold that position — could be an encouragement to those who may be less gracious in holding that view'

Church divided over promotion of bishop who opposes ordination of women as priests

The new Bishop of Blackburn, Philip North, says he cannot ordain women to the priesthood, but people question whether this is compatible with the role of a diocesan bishop

religionmediacentre.org.uk

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

6 months

Want a peek at the #NotEqualYet conference programme tomorrow? 231 signed up so far but not too late to join us, either in person or online. You'd be welcome!

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Individuals are judged by deeds not words. A bishop can say he accepts the validity of women priests, but what then if he -doesn’t take communion from them -or ordain them & is a leader in 2 organisations that actively oppose their ministry @ShrineOLW & ?

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@WATCH_ACT

11 months

Why we are saying that it is time for the Church of England to find a generous way to bring the arrangements set out in the 2014 settlement to an end.

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@WATCH_ACT

2 years

This is wonderful news! Congratulations to them!

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@WATCH_ACT

3 months

So many wonderful pictures still coming on the #ThisIsWhatAPriestLooksLike tag. Wish we could retweet them all. Thank you for them!

Revd Kt 🏳️‍🌈 ♿

@KtTup

4 months

20 years a Priest! Mr Tup & Wee Tup bought me a gift to celebrate 🍾 @revkatebottley 🙂💜🙏 #ThisIsWhatAPriestLooksLike #TrollsAndSpiteWillBeMuted

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

11 months

Imagine a @churchofengland where all are treated equally; where there are no special bishops for those who don't want to see women presiding at the altar; where there are no special bishops for those who don't want to see women preaching in the pulpit. Join @WATCH_ACT

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 years

2 So the sooner we get this sorted, the better for the @churchofengland ‘s mission & health. #maleheadship #malepriesthood subscribing churches must state this position accessibly on their websites. It’s simple. #transparentchurch #churchgenderjustice

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 months

To think that we can be equal while limiting the roles of women is a delusion. But it's a delusion with teeth. Discrimination and diminishment of women causes injury in body, mind & spirit. And it's time to find a way to bring it to an end. #NotEqualYet in @churchofengland

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Over 95% of churches, & in fact, maybe a much higher % of churchgoers, support WATCH’s position - of men & women ministering equally together, side by side. We represent the @churchofengland majority view.

Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

Have @churchofengland people realised this? In the past WATCH represented a minority, asking for equal treatment for women. Now it voices the mainstream view of CofE churches on this: more than 95% of churches have chosen to have men & women ministering equally, side by side.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

6 months

'The CofE’s female clergy muddle is not sustainable' - read this important piece by Theo Hobson

The CofE's female clergy muddle is not sustainable

It’s thirty years since the first women were ordained as priests of the Church of England. For ten years, there have been women bishops too

www.spectator.co.uk

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

7 months

This is why we need to restart the conversation abt equality for women in @churchofengland - our national church, with 26 seats in House of Lords but still using exemptions under the Equality Act to discriminate against women #IWD24

Not Equal Yet Conference - IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

Why it's time to end discrimination against women in our national church

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Orthodox Barbie

@OrthodoxBarbie

7 months

“Women are constantly told there are things which are ‘more important’ than equality for them. But accepting injustice not only distorts the Gospel, it is damaging. /1

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

5 years

1 The nature of the #maleheadship transparency problem in ‘Resolution’ churches, is not well understood in the wider @churchofengland , beyond conservative evangelical circles.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

WATCH trustees unanimously passed two resolutions at the National Committee meeting on 21 January: 1. That clergy who do not fully recognise the ordination of women to priesthood should not be appointed as @churchofengland diocesan bishops. See:

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

The Nomination of The Rt Rev'd Philip North as the next diocesan Bishop of Blackburn -

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

1 year

Other church websites say they promote the ‘distinctive’ ministry of men & women, suggesting difference & equality, not admitting that they actually adhere to women submitting to men’s authority, in church & in marriage. #MaleHeadship ‘ #Complementarian ‘ #MutualFlourishing ?

Women and the Church

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Women and the Church

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4 years

Basic take from the data: 1. Good news: the proportion of women licensed to stipendiary ⁦⁦ @churchofengland ⁩ parish posts has increased very slightly. 2. Not such good news: there’re still only 8 dioceses where over a third of stipendiary vicars or rectors are women.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

8 years

Looking for balance.

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

4 years

The Consecration of the Bishops of Horsham and Lewes -

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

6 years

1 We need help. @c_of_e church members: please can you ask that your Diocese posts accessibly on their Diocesan website which churches in your diocese have opted to exclude women from ministry+leadership via a PCC Resolution?

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Women and the Church

@WATCH_ACT

2 years

🧵1 After eight years of trying to make the provisions of the 2014 Settlement on #womenbishops work, WATCH is coming to the conclusion that #MutualFlourishingIsntWorking . Here are some of the reasons why:

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