#BiblicalManhood #ChristianLeadership #ChurchFathers #ChristCentered #DavidFord #DrMaryFord #EasternOrthodox #Ephesians5 #FaithAndFamily #HumbleLeadership #MaleHeadship #MarriageAsAPathToHoliness #MaryFord #NewTestament #OrthodoxChurch #Patriarchy #PhilDorroll #PublicOrthodoxy #SelfSacrificialLove
#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.
Note: The CEEC UK website says ‘provisions provided by +Ebbsfleet are directly related to #Complementarian theology..’ (i.e. the ‘theology’ that women should submit to the authority of men).
So even they admit he should not be imposed on a church community that doesn’t want #MaleHeadship ministry.
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?
Here again is our research on lack of #TransparencyAboutPCCResolutions
It also details other problems with @churchofengland.org #MaleHeadship / #MaleOnlyPriesthood ministry
- cases of women’s priestly vocations being blocked, manipulative use of language, etc.
blog.yorksj.ac.uk/cris/rock-th...
11. How many of the #ConservativeEvangelical so called ‘ #Complementarian’ clergy have confirmed to their diocesan bishop that they’ve properly consulted their wider church community/parish about their #MaleHeadship views & practices, reviewed resolutions after a reasonable period, etc?
13 Ordinary churchgoers are largely kept in the dark about it, because the so-called ‘ #Complementarian & #Traditionalist ‘ clergy, who have #MaleHeadship & #MaleOnlyPriesthood policies in how they run their churches, usually keep that little fact carefully out of the sight of their parishioners.
How can they be ‘equal in value’ to men if they’re taught by their vicars that wives should submit to their husbands,
& that women should be under male authority in church?
#MaleHeadship ‘ #Complementarian ‘
@churchofengland.org
& how can they be ‘equal in value’ to men, if they’re taught by their vicars that wives should submit to their husbands,
& that women should be under male authority in church?
#MaleHeadship ‘ #Complementarian ‘
@churchofengland.org
Thank you @bbcnuala.bsky.social for shining light on this!
- Resolutions haven’t been regularly reviewed
- Parishes/wider church communities haven’t been consulted
- Bishops haven’t been consulted about the ‘precise theological convictions’
- etc
& most of the #MaleHeadship (= #SubjectionofWomen )-espousing churches aren’t open about their policy&practices.
@churchofengland.org
re #DavidFletcher
What should the #ChurchofEngland #MaleHeadship -espousing, #ConservativeEvangelical grouping do now?
Certainly accepting women fully as equals in marriage, church life, etc, would go a long way to eliminating the pathologies produced by that culture.
2. They call #MaleHeadship a #SecondaryMatter.
Newsflash: preventing half of Christians from exercising their priestly/leadership ministry is no #2ndaryMatter to them,
or to God.
#SydneyAnglicans #ChurchToo #GAFCON #AnglicanCommunion #SingaporeAnglican
‘ #Complementarian ‘
Analyze the thought-manipulating language of #MaleHeadship :
1. ‘ #EqualButDifferent ‘ This phrase implies genuine fairness, but it’s really used deceptively, cloaking that this doctrine is *actually* about men having authority over women.
Who would have known?
#SydneyAnglicans #ChurchToo #GAFCON
Big response from the floor to view that in #SydneyDiocese we see a group of men who’ve used the governance arrangements to gain control + then force #MaleHeadship on churches that don’t want it. #CoerciveControl #ChurchToo #SydneyAnglicans #Complementarian
Discussing where the idea of #MaleHeadship goes when you take it to its logical conclusion.
#SydneyAnglicans
Presumably #Smyth’s wife thought she had to obey & submit to her husband. Because that was
*& still is*
the teaching that the #ConservativeEvangelical network promoted & promotes
’ #Complementarian ‘ = #MaleHeadship
@synod @WATCH_ACT @ChurchSociety @gafconference @ChurchTimes
Those who should resign are the #Iwerne #TitusTrust & other *supposedly-strong* #ConservativeEvangelical clergy leaders, who knew from the ‘80s & did nothing effective to stop #Smyth, or Fletcher, etc
#MaleHeadship (misnamed ‘ #Complementarian ’) thinking contributed to the disaster. #GAFCON #Makin
