In 2018 a WATCH clergy trustee & General @Synod mmbr argued in a meeting that The Church of England bishops simply don’t care about lay women. Since then bishops have not ensured #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions for laity. So now, what should lay women’s attitude be to bishops?

This is the C of E Everyday Faith Editor Alexandra Zhirnova who’s just submitted her PhD at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge!

One bishop who ordains women here. And two bishops who will not.

Is the plan that these people are going to minister within the The Church of England ? Will they be allowed to? Will leaders here do anything about it? General Synod #AlternativeOrdinations Interesting to read here of their treatment of women. viamedia.news/2025/06/26/alt…

Please #pray for Sarah Tranter, serving in the Halas Team in Halesowen as she is ordained Priest at Worcester Cathedral this afternoon. #NewRevs #Ordinations2025

Dr Julia Baird, Australian journalist, on the Australian Anglican church’s disappearing women. #AustralianAnglicanWomen are #NotEqualYet either. They keep getting pushed down. Time to end that. The Church of England⁩ abc.net.au/listen/program…

Encouraging that the The Church of England has finally started re-publishing its #MinistryStatistics. Such statistics are obviously essential for monitoring equality of opportunity: churchofengland.org/sites/default/… Broadly speaking, still only one third of clergy are women.

Martin Poole, speaking re injustice to protected groups in the The Church of England General #Synod today quotes: ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand…[look at] what people submit to, & you’ve found out the..measure of injustice & wrong that will be imposed upon them.’ Indeed.

Yes, as per. Those responsible for authorising & publishing the reply & all the previous similar ones since 2014, treat our General #Synod, our democratic synodical system, & most of all, the The Church of England churchgoers, with contempt. It’s bringing the wider CofE into disrepute

Here’s the question referred to in the last tweet.

Just got to York so I can attend #Synod tomorrow for the Redress Scheme debate. Hope to see members at our early fringe meeting & allies in the public gallery. Hanging out with survivors & allies in York this evening, let me know if you're around

There is no Woman of the Day post today but if there was, it might have been teacher Kate Jackson, born OTD in 1864 in Leicestershire, for exposing the truth about the unacceptable conditions in which suffragettes were held in custody at Rochester Row Police Station in 1913. She

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 The Church of England church’s ministry. #NotEqualYet Women and the Church

3.Here’s an example for this week of no #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions: see the website of Holy Cross #Felsted. Do you see any indication of their policy on women? Yet they’re listed as a parish overseen by the #BishopofEbbsfleet. felstedchurch.org.uk

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?

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. The Church of England clergy were trusted by Parliament to ensure these things. That trust is destroyed.

I am a layman who strongly supports women priests in The Church of England. Before worshipping I'd wish to be sure that this is the position of the church I may attend. womenandthechurch.org/blog/the-churc…

In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. In a sexist society it is not enough to be non-sexist, we must be anti-sexist.

Anti-racism and anti-sexism involve unlearning in The Church of England & other churches. As St Paul says, we must not conform to the patterns of this world (which include racism & patriarchy) but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, by the grace of God - if we will allow that

Gender equality, empowerment of all women and girls must be at the centre of all #SDGs #HLPF2025 UN Women