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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Useful summary of the latest discussions & decisions on the needs of our LGBTQI+ siblings, & how they are still not being met, in the #ChurchofEngland #GeneralSynod this month.

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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 · 23/05/2026

I’ve tweeted & posted over the last decade, using this hashtag, asking clergy to be open & honest with their church communities. Usually they don’t bother to reply. @churchofengland.org sort out your #EntitledPatriarchalCergy & provide #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions

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

@anglicanwomen.bsky.social @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social Has the St Simon’s church community (ever…) been consulted, as the 2014 legislation set out? Has the PCC Resolution excluding women been reviewed in the last decade. Etc. @churchofengland.org

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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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WATCH @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Why is it possible that a man could be appointed #BishopofLondon who opposes equality for women in the @churchofengland.org, when #MutualFlourishing is known, despite the omertà, to have been one sided, & leaders haven’t implemented the IR review recommendations which wd be essential preconditions.

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WATCH @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fewer than 5% of @churchofengland.org churches support excluding women from ministry leadership, but their activists are working to get a #BishopofLondon who rejects equality for women. Please sign this petition, so that London can have a bishop who supports men & women ministering equally together.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

>Petition asking that the new #BishopofLondon will be someone who fully affirms women’s priestly ministry & not one who won’t accept communion from women, doesn’t think they should be priests in the @churchofengland.org etc, which-believe it or not-some are asking for www.change.org/p/a-petition...

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Sign the Petition

A petition concerning the next bishop of London

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

‘Establish a Culture of Trust’ was the headline. Trust in the #womenbishops settlement went years ago, because @churchofengland.org leaders turned a blind eye to the lack of compliance with the agreed terms. Now there’s a generation of male clergy who know they can get away with it. #NotEqualYet

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/04/2026

The Art of War 1. Start war 2. Kill people 3. Fail to achieve strategic objectives 4. Declare victory 5. Agree ceasefire

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Is that linked to this? If it was all above board, why is there no transparency about what happened at the bishop’s palace that night? And why is there no appropriate ministry consequence for Sion? metro.co.uk/2025/11/24/p...

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Priest bashes bishop's car into soap star's partner's Skoda while drunk

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

#TimWalz says ‘This will end when enough Americans say this will end.’ Yes, please, let that be soon.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Exclusive from @zoecrowther.bsky.social: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging the government to leave X, arguing that it should "show direction to others in the UK" www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Leaked WhatsApp Messages Show Labour MPs Demanding Government Leaves X

Exclusive: Leaked WhatsApp messages show Labour MPs urging the government to leave X, arguing that it should 'show direction to others in the UK'.

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I wish the @churchtimes.bsky.social was better informed editorially, about the unaddressed problems & lack of compliance with the terms of 2014 settlement. I hoped that would improve over the last year or so. But Katie Stock’s article -even the headline & subheading were uninformed. #NotEqualYet

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Thank you to our amazing team of volunteers, who give up their time and work so hard for integrity and accountability in the @churchofengland.org Go @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social !

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Thank you to our amazing team of volunteers, who give up their time and work so hard for integrity and accountability in the @churchofengland.org Go @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social !

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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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 · 16/07/2025

@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.

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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 · 14/07/2025

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’?

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Lizzie Taylor @steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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.’

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

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.

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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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Sabeel-Kairos UK @sabeel-kairosuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/06/2025

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

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Ruth Harley @ruthh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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.

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

[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.]

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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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Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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.

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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 · 22/05/2025

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. @churchtimes.bsky.social @charliebelllive.bsky.social

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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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dagmarkirk.bsky.social @dagmarkirk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We looking for a new Diocesan Secretary for the Diocese of Ely who shares our passion for the church in this part of the world. See here: cofepathways.org/members/modu... If, after prayer and discernment, you can see yourself in this role, we very much hope to hear from you. @churchofengland.org

cofepathways.org

Church Of England - Diocesan Secretary (CEO)

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