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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

From the book #HowToMakeADifference, by K&E Robertson. This is why @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social Chair #MartineOborne & theologian/journalist #TheoHobson are visionaries. They advocate unity, justice & honesty in the @churchofengland.org -ending the 2014 Settlement which allows exclusion of women.

Page from ‘How to Make A Difference’, by K & E Robertson, about how activism needs a cause of perfect ambition, to completely end problems, not just to be half-hearted

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The @churchofengland.org church St Simon Zelotes in Chelsea has, according to the #BishopofEbbsfleet, a policy of excluding women from various roles, aka #MaleHeadship/‘#Complementarian’, #WomenSubjecttoMen. But I can’t see any mention of this on their website. @Mike Neville - will you correct this?

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

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

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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. @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

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’

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

@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?

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.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

Image of ChatGPT answer explaining the parliamentary backlash when General Synod failed to vote to allow women to be bishops in 2012.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Another comment, from Rosalind, on Thinking Anglicans, in response to @churchofengland.org bishops’ latest meeting. #NotEqualYet @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

#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

Screenshot of response to bishops’ statement and proposal.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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?

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Reply to Gareth (no last name) on ThinkingAnglicans.org . @churchofengland.org women know the 2014 #womenbishops Settlement by its fruit. #NotEqualYet @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social #ByTheirFruits

Screenshot of my comment on the Thinking Anglicans website, pointing out that those supporting the dysfunctional 2014 settlement ignore & never respond about the harm now being done to women & girls. It’s as if we simply aren’t here/or are of no importance.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

@churchofengland.org women are now speaking up. We had to be firm to - be ‘allowed’ by men to go to university - be ‘allowed’ ..to vote - be ‘allowed’ ..to be ordained - be ‘allowed’ ..to be bishops - etc It’s an ongoing struggle. Latest iteration = the #NewMisogyny @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

Screenshot of a post on X today, from someone sad about this, who’s been too daunted, tired, etc, to engage in asking & working for justice & truth in the CofE.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Another example. Here’s a question on #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions from @churchofengland.org’s General Synod July 2020… @samwilson.bsky.social

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just for those not aware of what’s been done to @churchofengland.org women over the last decade: #NotEqualYet

A list of ways in which the 2014 settlement on women bishops has not been honoured, monitored or implemented fairly.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

You can still book for in person /online, to join us at @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social Conference next Saturday morning. It’s an important one. @churchofengland.org Cost won’t be a barrier: please contact via our WATCH Secretary if we can sort that. #NotEqualYet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-equal-...

Conference poster, listing speakers Rt Rev Rosmarie Mallet, Rev Dr Liz Shercliff, Rev Dr Leah Robinson, + Rev Dr Charlie Bell joins too.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Anyone in Cambridge this afternoon, with an interest in Anglo-Saxon #WomenSaints, this is the place to be. @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social @churchofengland.org

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

#AndrewCornes et al will potentially face a CDM, as the new #ClergyConductMeasure perhaps won’t become law till 2026. #Makin #JohnSmyth Cornes needs replacing on the #CrownNominationsCommission now. Abackup is needed for the appointment process for the next #ArchbishopofCanterbury

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Evidence: here’s one of the mentions of @churchofengland.org Crown Nominations Commission member, #AndrewCornes, in the #Makin Review.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In 2021 @Graham1munro.bsky.social raised this re #JohnSmyth. #AndrewCornes was one of those who knew. Now, in 2025, believe it or not, Cornes is *still* a member of the central #CrownNominationsCommission, set to choose a successor to #JustinWelby (who resigned for so much less). #Makin #CofE

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The @ChurchTimes.bsky.social says the @churchofengland.org ‘s governing body General Synod passed this amendment last week. No one is indispensable. Everyone, including those in senior positions, must take responsibility for their actions & inactions. #ArchbishopofYork #DavidTudor #JohnPerumbalath

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#ChurchofEngland #DioceseofRochester Diocesan Synod’s motion of no confidence in the #Archbishop’sCouncil ‘s oversight of #churchsafeguarding Thanks to @rebeccabexchapman.bsky.social

Rochester Diocese’s Diocesan Synod passed a motion of no confidence in the Archbishop’s Council oversight of safeguarding.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

From Madeleine Davies’s article in the Church Times today: #Smyth #Makin #ChurchToo

Church Times article about cultural/organisational factors leading to Smyth abuse, including misogyny & patriarchy.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Letter from former General Synod member April Alexander in today’s #ChurchTimes re misogynistic practices contributing to the #Smyth disaster. #Makin

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#JustinWelby #Makin #Smyth Interesting that the @FT is one of the few news outlets to report this accurately. It’s been troubling how distorted & inaccurate the coverage has been from other, previously-respected, media.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

The @prayerbook_soc published this (p19 of its Michaelmas 24 Today magazine). The article’s author is Adele Stephenson. #churchofengland. The #PrayerBookSociety should not be belittling women clergy. It’s a rich, (until now) respectable organisation.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Martine Oborne’s post from elsewhere:

Picture of Martine Oborne’s quote of Isaiah Berlin “Freedom for the wolves often means death for the sheep.” She’s reflecting on so-called Mutual Flourishing in the Church of England.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Fiona Scolding KC report into Soul Survivor / Pilavachi, summary by Tim Wyatt: the same issues here as elsewhere in the Church of England.

Image of text saying that report finds all vacancies should be advertised, don’t just automatically appoint those you already know. Get the best qualified person for the job.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

This is incorrect. The leaders are not doing that. Apart from core orthodoxy matters like incarnation, Trinity, atonement, the more peripheral doctrines of the Church of England, such as the ones you seek schism over, has changed down the centuries. Think of slavery, equality for women.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Dr Wambunya, next Bishop of Wolverhampton, says he took part in a personal capacity. Imagine a judge donning wig & gown, claiming to pass sentence on someone ’in a personal capacity’. The Church of England has many problems with clergy accountability, including bishops’ accountability.

Dr Wambunya in clerical robes, laying hands on the candidate.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

@superteadrinker.bsky.social Referencing your tweet of a few years ago: the Church of England’s Ministry Statistics are now really well sorted out (cough)!

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Does anyone in @DioceseNorwich or @churchofengland know when this church went into long-term vacancy? & does it have a PCC? Since 2018 the bishop of Maidstone listed it as being under his oversight, as does the bishop of Ebbsfleet now. But it seems to have been effectively closed for several years.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

2. Here’s an example: General Synod member, associate director of the #MaleHeadship -promoting Church Society/writer and writer/theologian.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Does anyone know what progress has been made on mandating advertising combined with search for the appointment of bishops since this? churchofengland.org/sites/default/…

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