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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Me: *reading about the GAFCON SEPARATION* Him: You know it’s not just because she’s a woman. It’s because she has some liberal theology leanings. Me: Any more than her predecessor? Him: Probably not.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Imagine a marriage free from the "crushing weight of gendered performance." The Gospel doesn't just offer hope; it offers freedom—freedom to serve, lead, and love in partnership, united under the single, perfect authority of King Jesus.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

What if the biblical pattern for marriage isn't hierarchy, but profound mutuality and partnership? From the very beginning of creation to the radical equality of the New Creation in Christ, Scripture points to a collaborative dance under the sole leadership of Jesus.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Who is truly the Head of your home? When we relegate Jesus to a "substitute leader" only for when a husband "fails," we miss the profound truth that He is the only true and perfect Head at all times.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Healthy relationships are built on trust, not tactics. When Christian counsel suggests "prompting" a spouse into a role, does it risk becoming spiritual manipulation?

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The weight of expectation can be crushing, especially when it comes to spiritual leadership defined by rigid roles. Are Christian men being set up for guilt and inadequacy by unbiblical standards?

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I had to write something: “The gospel gives this couple freedom from the crushing weight of gendered performance, inviting them instead into a loving, dynamic partnership under the single, perfect authority of King Jesus.” www.fixinghereyes.org/single-post/...

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Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader

My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I think I need to write the book on Biblical Egalitarian/Mutualism for teens.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If you were to show ONE episode of The Chosen to a 7th Grade Christian Studies class, which would it be? We just wrapped up a unit about Jesus fulfilling OT prophecy - snake crusher, suffering servant, prophet, priest, king, the word

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

When someone claims current Womanist Theology is a different religion to Christianity because … Machen (1920s theologian).

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

“Others have been doing podcasts on look at all the young men looking into Christianity. But we have done a WADR episode on, hey well, what’s happening with the young women though?…

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Real power isn't staged in DC — it rises up everywhere else. Join me on No Kings Day to stand together against cruelty, corruption, and authoritarianism. app.sosha.ai/s/VO0iGLJc

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Join me on June 14

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“Women are more empathetic and thus less rational. Therefore they are not suited for the office of elder. Like Job’s wife.” (Summary of JRig.) *Men watching M*hler’s interview with R*gney and sagely nodding along*

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Fleming Rutledge @frutledge.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Bluesky made it so difficult to get in that I got disgusted and gave up. But now I'm back, with news of my new book. It's about the power of preaching, and it's called *By The Word Worked*--a takeoff on the doctrine of "Ex opere operandi," by the work worked (as in baptism and the eucharist)

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Leah D. Schade @leahschade.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

As a preaching professor, I analyze the context, use of the Bible, form, structure, content, tone, and delivery of sermons. I believe we can learn things about effective preaching from Bishop Budde’s address at the prayer service for the inauguration. 3/19

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eli 🕊️ @nienna121.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Mood for the foreseeable future.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Someone: But the so called “bishop” didn’t clearly explain the gospel from the pulpit to a non-Christian president when she had the chance to. Shame! Me: Her role in that moment was to pray for unity during the prayer service. 🤷‍♀️

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David W. Swanson @davidwswanson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In ON TYRANNY, @timothysnyder.bsky.social writes that "to abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights." 3/

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It’s clear many have never heard the prophetic word spoken by a woman - I recommend some supplementary reading - the words ascribed to Hannah and Mary. Be blessed.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Jailed for 1000 days for damaging property - ridiculous, right?! Psst - don’t forget to add the bit where they stormed the Capitol with the intent to stop the peaceful transfer of power. Go ahead. Tell them that bit.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Scripture is clear. Women are elders in the NT church. Treat them as mothers. Mothers and Fathers work and make decisions together to help nourish and equip the family in the service of God. 1 Tim 5 and Titus 2

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Miss14 successfully inducted into the 1995 Pride and Prejudice fan club. HELP: We need fanfic on Mary Bennet. What became of her?

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Australian Presbyterians are considering a proposal that includes many recommendations in which they can improve how women are heard and equipped and included in the church. One suggestion is to elect a group of women to advise the elders (all male). 1/

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Beware of creating a rule out of normal. God often acts outside the realm of normal. Don’t get in his way because of a rule you created.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

In my experience there is a yearning among some for a Perspecuity of scripture in ALL things rather than all things pertaining to salvation.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Me: What’s the difference between sacrificial love and the Pauline notion of submission? Him: Men were made by God from creation to carry the responsibility-and-initiative (authority) in their loving service.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Him: Scripture is clear women should not preach nor be elders. Me: There is no clear Scripture that bans women from preaching nor being elders. in fact not so clear.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Him: Men are to have authority over their wives like Christ. Me: Men are to be united to their wives in love and service. Which is it? Vases or Faces? H/t: @larktheosis.bsky.social

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Presentation pet peeves - the 15 minute intro trying to convince me that I should be in the room and listen to the content - AAAGH!!! I’m already in the room. GIVE ME THE CONTENT!!! Same with sermons.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Someone: Paul says the OT law upholds the concept that it is not ideal when women lead. Me: No he doesn’t. S: 1 Cor 14:33-35 Me: Yeh, there’s no OT law that regulates the speech of women in public. There WERE Greco-Roman ideals of how women should behave in public.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Him: Women leading or prophesying in Scripture is not the norm. It is rare and the exception. Me: There is no rule. Don’t gag and bind where God does not.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Him: Asking me to affirm women elders as a possibility is asking me to change my theology. Me: Adherence to male only elders and deacons is practice and disputed. It’s not a theological principle.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

You give advice about conference nametags ONCE and AI makes it a whole compinent of your personality! Ha ha - this was fun blueskyroast.com/roast/jollys...

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Someone: Hmm, well, I prefer the Systematic Theology approach to figuring out this men and women stuff because there’s just some things we can’t know about the original culture. Me: Don’t just ignore the things that you absolutely CAN know, however.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hot Tip post San Diego, my friends - next conference you go to - raise your name tag lanyard to chest level by tying a not in the back of the neck. That way people aren’t looking at your belly button region to remember your name -

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I REALLY don’t like using Systematic Theology methods to create a package of how we think men and women should be in the church, home and society. I don’t think that’s what the Bible teaches.

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Him: Egalitarian marriages breed discontentment when they try to carve up a relationship of equal 50-50 responsibilities. Me: It would if that’s what egalitarian marriages are. In reality, in any thriving relationship, one brings their whole self - not 50% …

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Brother Tobias (Rob Evans) @brothertobias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Priscilla Lydia Sellon was a remarkable woman, an #Anglican pioneer of religious communities in the 19th Century. She founded schools & orphanages and led the Society of the Most Holy Trinity at Ascot Priory. Her nuns accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea. She died on this day in 1876. #CofE

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Marg Mowczko @margmowczko.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

November 22 is the feast day of Philemon and Apphia in the Roman Catholic Church. We know almost nothing about Apphia, but I can say with some certainty that Philemon and Apphia weren’t husband and wife. The Eastern Orthodox Church regard Apphia as “Equal to the Apostles.” margmowczko.com/apphia/

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Apphia: Philemon's wife or another Phoebe? - Marg Mowczko

Apphia, a woman, is greeted by Paul in his letter to Philemon. What was her role or position at Colossae? Was she Philemon's wife?

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Christine Jolly @jollystine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There was a whole movie on how lack of basic toilet rights held a nation back.

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