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.

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.

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.’

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...

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

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.]

@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?

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.

@krishgm.bsky.social Well done with that interview Krish! @channel4news.bsky.social

#NotEqualYet @churchofengland.org @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

#DiocesanSecretary role, for the #DioceseofEly @churchofengland.org

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

#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

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

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?

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

The @churchofengland.org ‘s Diocese of Ely seeks a Diocesan Secretary: share.google/ZZvtrtB6QBwi...

Women asking to be treated fairly in the @churchofengland.org isn’t working. Is it time for a @channel4news.bsky.social item, or TV documentary, to explain to the wider nation what is going on? @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk #NotEqualYet

Absolutely stonking piece from WATCH Chair, Mtr Martine. I recommend reading in full

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

@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

Do you know why the Church of England #WomenBishops Settlement has failed? @churchofengland.org @synodnews.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk #AnglicanWomen #NotEqualYet

I’m puzzled as to why those who criticise @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social for seeking a #GeneralSynod review of the @churchofengland.org’s #womenbishops Settlement avoid addressing the lack of compliance & abuses that have made it fail, & the loss of confidence that bishops will put things right.

Of the 29 people identified in Romans 16:1-16, 10 are women, and 7 of the 10 women are described in terms of their ministry. Only 3 men are described in terms of their ministry and 2 of them are ministering alongside a woman.

Please take @churchofengland.org women’s concerns & unhappiness with the present system seriously. Don’t ignore them & try to pretend everything is OK, that we can just move on. The system is not OK. We want a system that is honest, is fair, can be trusted, & is safe. @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

Please will the House of Bishops stop, think again, & encourage General Synod to have an open debate on whether a generous end should be brought to arrangements that allow @churchofengland.org men to exclude women from ministry if they so wish? #NotEqualYet

Please can you help get the word out to CofE people, Parliament & the media, to steer things back on the right path? @simondstanley.bsky.social @johnbingham.bsky.social @jenniferbennett.bsky.social @churchstate.bsky.social @lawandreligionuk.bsky.social @richardchapman.bsky.social #NotEqualYet

1. On the lack of monitoring of the #WomenBishops Settlement Since 2014, @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social & individuals have pointed out that @churchofengland.org leaders haven’t set up any monitoring of whether the terms of the Settlement are being followed by clergy & churches. #NotEqualYet

1 A thread about the @churchofengland.org senior bishops’ ‘response’ to last year’s ‘Independent’ Reviewer’s report. www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/house-of-bis....

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

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

Interesting that the IR’s report came out on 11.4.24, & only now - lo & behold - just after the @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social call for an end to the 2014 #womenbishops settlement, they pop up saying “Don’t worry, we’ll do…something.” But there’s nothing substantive there. More of the same won’t do.

See lawandreligionuk.com/2025/04/24/ind… @churchofengland.org House of Bishops formal response to the Independent Reviewer’s report on the submission from church women @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social re the appointment of diocesan bishops who do not ordain women as priests.

Poor Francis's autobiography, published in January, was a strange book, but I liked it mainly because it showed his aspiration to be humble and to connect with other people. (His focus on respect for migrants was also very striking.) www.ft.com/content/d52b...

Trump now less popular than he was at the same stage of his first term www.economist.com/interactive/...

Those who reject the idea of #WomenPriests in the @churchofengland still aren’t being open about that policy with their congregations & the wider church. They use euphemisms & coded language, like ‘ #Traditionalist #Complementarian #DistinctiveMinistry. Honesty counts @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

On BBCWomansHour just now, Ros Clarke said the ‘ #Complementarian ‘ view is that women are ‘equal in value & status’ to men. How can women be equal in status if they can only apply for some of the church posts, while men can apply for all of them? Or if they’re taught they should submit to men?

You can listen now or on catch up to this #BBCWoman’sHour discussion @bbcnuala.bsky.social #NotEqualYet

The latest issue of the Church Times is out today. On the front page this week, WATCH launches campaign to abolish the Five Guiding Principles: the provisions that accompanied the women-bishops legislation of 2014 which were put in place to provide for those unable to accept women’s ministry.

A campaign to end the provisions that accompanied the women-bishops legislation of 2014, put in place to provide for those unable to accept women’s ministry, was launched by @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social on Saturday

'There's something about exploitation going on here... A lot of problems are being swept under the carpet.' @MartineOborne talks abt our call for @synod to decide if Declaration (that permits discrimination against women in @churchofengland.org) is forever or not. soundcloud.com/user-2158129...

Do you want to find out? We’re looking forward to hearing Rev Dr @charliebelllive speaking on the Harms Caused by Discrimination at our conference in London tomorrow. There’s still time to join us in person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-equal-...

@charliebelllive.bsky.social Hi Charlie, I’m looking forward to you posting here, or at least cross-posting to here, rather than only posting on the site owned by someone who...