We’re sometimes asked for more recent resources supporting the ordination of women in the Anglican Church – here are some that relate specifically to gender equality that you might find useful.  And showing that we’re not alone, a little material from the Catholics and the Orthodox.

Many thanks to The Rev’d Professor Dorothy Lee AM, Dr Muriel Porter OAM and Dr Jacqueline Service for their assistance.

Articles

Fry, A. D. J.  ‘Postfeminist, engaged and resistant: Evangelical male clergy attitudes towards gender and women’s ordination in the Church of England’.  Critical Research on Religion (2021) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/2050303220952868

Grey, Mary.  ‘The ordination of women in the Catholic Church? New considerations’. International Studies in Catholic Education 8.2 (2016)

Kariuki, R. J.  ‘The role of culture, patriarchy, and ordination of women in PCEA Church: A Review of forty Yyars of women’s ordination between 1982–2022’.  European Journal of Theology and Philosophy (2024) https://mail.ej-theology.org/index.php/theology/article/view/93

Service, Jacqueline.  ‘A distorted theology – subordination of women and male “Headship”: A response to a young woman in the Church’.  St Mark’s Review (2023) https://stmarks.edu.au/review-article/a_distorted_theology/

Blogs

Kidson, Lyn.  ‘How I Came to Study 1 Timothy 2’ (2025), including links to other relevant publications https://engenderedideas.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/1-timothy-2-step-by-step/

Books

Barr, Beth Allison. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the subjugation of women became gospel truth, Brazos Press (2021)

Bird, Michael F.  Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Haircuts: A case for gender equality in ministry, Zondervan (2012)

Bird, Michael F. (ed)  Trinity Without Hierarchy: Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology, Kregel (2019).  This is because the Sydney Diocese has an existing document that affirms the subordination of women through the doctrine go the Trinity –https://docs.sydneyanglicans.net/s/sfsites/c/sfc/servlet.shepherd/document/download/069Ol00000EFeaIIAT

Byrd, Aimee.  Recovering from Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: How the church needs to rediscover her purpose, Zondervan (2020)

Frost, Carrie Frederick.  Church of Our Granddaughters, Cascade (2023)

Giles, Kevin.  The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity, Cascade (2017)

Giles, Kevin.  What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, Cascade (2018)

Giles, Kevin.  The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women: Are they related in any way? Cascade (2020)

Gupta, Nijay K.  Tell Her Story: How women led, taught, and ministered in the Early Church, IVP (2023)

Hill, Graham Joseph.  Holding Up Half the Sky: A Biblical case for women leading and teaching in the church, Cascade (2020)

Kidson, Lyn M.  Persuading Shipwrecked Men: The rhetorical strategies of 1 Timothy 1, Mohr Siebeck (2020)

Lee, Dorothy.  The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical vision for church leadership, Baker Academic (2021)

Lee-Barnewall, Michelle.  Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A kingdom corrective to the evangelical gender debate, Baker Academic (2016)

McNutt, Jennifer Powell.  The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles teaches the Church today, Brazos Press (2024)

Peppiatt, Lucy.  Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s rhetorical arguments in 1 Corinthians, Cascade (2015)

Pierce, Ronald W, Cynthia Long Westfall, Christa L McKirkland (eds).  Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, theological, cultural, and practical perspectives, InterVarsity Press (2021)

Vassiliadis, Petros, Niki Papageorgiou & Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi (eds).  Deaconesses, the Ordination of Women and Orthodox Theology (2017). Earlier edition, still heavily used in recent discussions.

Westfall, Cynthia Long.  Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the apostle’s vision for men and women in Christ, Baker Academic (2016)

Wilson, Sarah Hinlicky.  Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, T&T Clark (2015)

Journals

Priscilla Papers, an evangelical journal that strongly argues for the inclusion and equality of women in the life of the church and home, e.g. Bethany Jantzi, ‘The Wife as a Training Ground: Complementarian Theology and Coercive Control (2025) https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/the-wife-as-a-training-ground-complementarian-theology-and-coercive-control/

Reports

Pope Francis’ Study Commissions on the Women’s Diaconate (2016, 2020)

Theological Task Force on Holy Orders is a compendium of reports given to the College of Bishops and Provincial Councils of the Anglican Church in North America between January 2013 and January 2017.  https://anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HolyOrdersTaskForce-printable.pdf

World Council of Churches.  Faith & Order material on women’s ordination (1988).  See the footnotes for further resources  https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/faith-and-order-on-womens-ordination?

Videos

Fixing Her Eyes zoom conversation on Headship, 2021 including Jacqueline Service on the concepts of subordinationism in the Trinity and headship arguments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOloHaig6uc&list=UUNSVET6Vr–IbvTiksNeIJw

Fixing Her Eyes zoom conversation on Headship 2021 including Lyn Kidson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5c_gYckFKg

Keener, Craig.  Women in Ministry, 2020 Laidlaw College video lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyZr-K3STsU

Wright, N T.  Biblical Basis for Women’s Service in the Church, 2004 International Symposium, video lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZPyZFWQI0

Websites

Church of England.  House of Bishops’ Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests and the Five Guiding Principles (2014–15). Still operative.  https://www.churchofengland.org/about/governance/general-synod/structure/house-bishops/house-bishops-declaration-ministry-bishops-and-priests-and-five-guiding-principles

Mowczko, Marg.  Prominent Biblical Scholars on Women in Ministry  (2015) https://margmowczko.com/prominent-biblical-scholars-on-women-in-ministry/?fbclid=IwAR07Ombwzda6l-zmi7MIfMT7zX4g6dPNfluUuHQxbPqXieG-m53kxdONcKY

Mowczko, Marg. ‘An Interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:12 that joins the dots of 2:11-15’ (2017) https://margmowczko.com/interpretation-of-1-timothy-212/

Mowczko, Marg.  ‘Why Timothy 2:12 Shouldn’t Be Used to Ban Women Ministers’ (2023) https://margmowczko.com/1-timothy-212-unique-bible-verse/

Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research.  ‘Can women be priests in the Catholic Church?’.  Ongoing project.  https://www.wijngaardsinstitute.com/can-women-be-priests/

World Communion of Reformed Churches. Created in God’s Image: From hegemony to partnership – A church manual on men as partners: Promoting positive masculinities.  https://wcrc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/From_Hegemony_to_Partnership.pdf

World Communion of Reformed Churches.  A Declaration of Faith on Women’s Ordination (2017) https://wcrc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DeclarationOfFaithOnWomensOrdination-EN.pdf

Catalogues

Christian gender equality: Ordination of women, Protestant.  https://search.worldcat.org/lists/1b9e2384-b013-48e0-b45b-911ee8d3ca3f

Christian gender equality: Ordination of women, Catholic and Orthodox.    https://search.worldcat.org/lists/77a4e7a7-489b-4941-8767-eee193b0fe51

Christian Gender equality: The experiences of women in ministry https://search.worldcat.org/lists/62bdf2a5-e1f1-4433-b399-4686ae904828?limit=25&offset=1&orderBy=publication-date-dsc 

Movement for the Ordination of Women

25 January 2026