Lizzie Taylor
@steeplekeeper.bsky.social
#Anglican. #ChurchofEngland. Ordinary churchgoer in #DioceseofEly. Working for good governance, transparency, accountability, inclusion & equity. Supporting #AnglicanWomen
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.
Helen King@helenking.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnother Church of England day, another failure to welcome and value LGBTQIA+ people in relationships shared-conversations.com/2026/07/13/s...
Rest in peace #SheikhHamad. Thank you for all you did. #BlessedAreThePeacemakers
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.
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
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 4mo ago@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
@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
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe @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?
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?
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.
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.
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · 5mo ago>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...
>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...
Sign the Petition
A petition concerning the next bishop of London
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‘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
The Art of War 1. Start war 2. Kill people 3. Fail to achieve strategic objectives 4. Declare victory 5. Agree ceasefire
#TimWalz says ‘This will end when enough Americans say this will end.’ Yes, please, let that be soon.
Governor Tim Walz@governorwalz.mn.gov · 8mo agoI’ll provide an update on this morning’s shooting shortly: www.youtube.com/live/EwnrX_n...
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.
We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.
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...
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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‘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
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
WATCH@watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 11mo agoLetter in the @churchtimes.bsky.social this week, in response to Rev Katie Stock’s article last week. #NotEqualYet
Lorraine Cavanagh in the Church Times on #Microaggressions in the @churchofengland.org. #ItDoesntWorkForUs #NotEqualYet #InstitutionalSexism. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Women in the Church: What do ‘micro-aggressions’ mean?
Bishop Mullally identified a problem that many women encounter, writes Lorraine Cavanagh
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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 !
WATCH@watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe are so encouraged by the huge response to our Transparency campaign. Thank you to the thousands who have visited this page on our website: www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency
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 !
WATCH@watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe are so encouraged by the huge response to our Transparency campaign. Thank you to the thousands who have visited this page on our website: www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency
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.
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · last yr.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?
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.
@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.
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · last yr.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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4sytozln3qvqzvkg3poyk3dl/bafkreihmyaofcjceavtfsdnbzumwfwquiocne4aw6euif6dwr7jpomn3cy)
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
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.’
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
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...
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.
[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.]
Lizzie Taylor@steeplekeeper.bsky.social · last yr.@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?
