Really interesting discussion about #MargeryKempe & her times: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#GodBeyondGender book launch tomorrow:

A Guide to #Mansplaining: theconversation.com/mansplaining...

Sharing encouragements at the WATCH trustees’ meeting today. So many to be grateful for: the #ArchbishopofCanterbury ‘s appointment; the response to our Transparency campaign; so many new members joining; & yet more joining our mailing list; the Newcastle Roadshow; new trustees; etc. #NotEqualYet

Letter in the @churchtimes.bsky.social this week, in response to Rev Katie Stock’s article last week. #NotEqualYet

Medieval women’s legacies live on in Britain’s towns and cities theconversation.com/medieval-wom...

#NotEqualYet Yes, the being ‘lovely’, ‘charming’, etc, towards women/female priests has been one of the tools which are used for keeping women down, & keeping people calm about it. It’s one of the #MaleHeadship #Complementarian #Traditionalist cloaking mechanisms. Enough. Time to wake up to it.

The 15th Archbishop of Wales, the Most Reverend Cherry Vann, will be enthroned in Newport Cathedral on Saturday 8 November. Bydd 15fed Archesgob Cymru, y Parchedicaf Cherry Vann, yn cael ei gorseddu yng Nghadeirlan Casnewydd ddydd Sadwrn 8 Tachwedd. www.youtube.com/live/qBjg6PG... #ChurchInWales

1 This article is unbalanced: it doesn’t acknowledge that @churchofengland.org clergy opposing equality for women in ministry have not followed the 2014 Declaration terms (e.g. parish consultations, reviews, vocation referrals), which were agreed in good faith. So the agreement is already history.

Can you help with this transparency project? We’ve been contacted by a number of people who say that our list, compiled from the male-only priesthood societies/bishops’ own lists needs corrections! If you know of any inaccuracies or additions to this list, please email [email protected]

It's something which is long overdue.

For the first time, we expose the subset of @churchofengland.org churches that limit women’s roles & opportunities: www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency

Together with our partners we hosted an annual training that offers advocacy tools and support to fight for gender justice and equality.

We 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

The #NotEqualYet Roadshow is coming up at Newcastle Cathedral!

The statement from #Gafcon that it had “reset” the #AnglicanCommunion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed #churchnews #churchtimes

The #NotEqualYet Roadshow is coming up at Newcastle Cathedral!

The next conference on gender justice in the Australian Anglican Church ! #AnglicanCommunion #ordinationofwomen @churchofengland.org

Can you help with this transparency project? We’ve been contacted by a number of people who say that our list, compiled from the male-only priesthood societies/bishops’ own lists needs corrections! If you know of any inaccuracies or additions to this list, please email [email protected]

'A church which accepts women’s inequality as either desirable, inevitable, or a price worth paying is always going to reflect a distorted image of the God who loves all people equally & calls people to all varieties of ministry, irrespective of gender...' www.womenandthechurch.org/blog/b2jbirm...

Inspired and encouraged by the @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social AGM this morning - celebrating what has been achieved and gearing up for what is still to do. Now looking forward to the #NotEqualYet Roadshow, coming to Newcastle in a couple of weeks: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-equal-...

So many expressions of joy from our membership today on the appointment of Bishop Sarah as #ArchbishopofCanterbury Full of gratitude too for her, taking this on in the face of ongoing misogyny.

We’re really looking forward to our AGM this morning: so much encouragement & progress to work forward. #NotEqualYet but we will get there!

We 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

#GodBeyondGender #InclusiveLiturgy book launch in Canterbury on Monday 13th October.

Our Chair, Rev Martine Oborne, on Bishop Sarah’s appointment as #ArchbishopofCanterbury www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The #ArchbishopofCanterbury’s appointment is the most on wonderful, encouraging news! Please now join in our call for requiring genuine equality, for men + women to have full right to minister side by side on equal terms, across the @churchofengland.org See our website, as below:

For the first time, we expose the subset of @churchofengland.org churches that limit women’s roles & opportunities: www.womenandthechurch.org/transparency

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post #archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Another bit of joyful news to remember from earlier in the year: rcc.ac.uk/news/revd-dr...

Our sister & brothers globally rejoice at the appointment of +Sarah to be the next #ArchbishopofCanterbury, & they look forward to the day when there’ll be complete openness about the opportunities for women in the @churchofengland.org. @churchtimes.bsky.social

Interesting interview with author Selina Stone about her book ‘A Heavy Yoke’, on theology, power & abuse. www.womanalive.co.uk/book-club-a-...

Afters years of requests & now pressure from us & others, some @churchofengland.org churches are being more open & honest with clergy applicants & churchgoers over their PCC’s policy of excluding women from ministry: From @churchtimes.bsky.social 5.9.25. #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions #NotEqualYet

We are looking for trustees at WATCH. Go to our website (www.womenandthechurch.org) to for the link to our pack for information and process (you need to be a member but can do that quickly if you are keen to help us bring about change in the church).

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

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?

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. www.felstedchurch.org.uk @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social

@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.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit just takes me by surprise with the wonder and joy of this priestly life. Today, standing at the altar, singing: Such love, stilling my restlessness, Such love, filling my emptiness, Such love, showing me holiness, O Jesus, such love. #TinyJoys

Martin Poole, speaking re injustice to protected groups in the @churchofengland.org ‘s General #Synod today quotes: ‘Power concedes nothing without a demand…[Look at] what people submit to, & you’ve found out the exact measure of injustice & wrong that will be imposed upon them.’ Time to demand.

One day maybe they will publish the stats for breakdowns of clergy marriages, and maybe people will take notice. It's over 40%, we think share.google/iuk4B7mXBKOX...

Hot Fuzz problems at #Synod

'It is hard to increase vocations when people see we haven’t got money for stipends... Accessing grant money is enormously time-consuming & appointments have to be time-limited The Holy Spirit cannot be forced to move within our time-scales' Bishop Guli #synod #GeneralSynod

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

Voting for the next Chancellor of Cambridge University opens tomorrow. See my video here to find out why I'm standing for this position.

Is the plan that these people are going to minister within the @churchofengland.org ? Will they be allowed to? Will leaders here do anything about it? @synod #AlternativeOrdinations Interesting to read here of their attitude to & treatment of women. viamedia.news/2025/06/26/a...

"I am honoured to be called to this role, this is a beautiful diocese, with truly lovely people, and a grounded Suffolk sense of service and humility." The Bishop of Stepney, Dr Joanne Grenfell, will be the next Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. 📰 cofe.io/BishopStEdmundsbury.

In 2018 a WATCH clergy trustee & General Synod member argued in a meeting that @churchofengland.org bishops simply don’t care about lay women. Since then, ignoring requests, bishops have not ensured laity get #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions. So now, what should lay women’s attitudes be to bishops?

There’s no record in the parish profile, website, etc, that St Johns Felbridge has had a resolution to exclude women e.g. from oversight. But this move does just that, when @ceecuk website says there’re 4 women ‘overseers’ available. So was the vicar a secret #MaleHeadship supporter when appointed?

Our next Liturgy Writing Workshop, via Zoom: please do join us.