Aimee Byrd Torches Her ‘Uptight’ Old Church, Reveals THIS about Her New One
Former professing complementarian Aimee Byrd has ripped into her former church while revealing she now attends a church led by women pastors, highlighting the downgrade she’s been on and vindicating many who have been warning about her drift for years.
Once part of The Mortification of Spin, a podcast she co-hosted with Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt, she was sent packing and expunged from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals due to dissatisfaction with her polemical publications, particularly after her views of complementarian went from hard, to soft.
For years Byrd rebuffed any notion or concerns that she was on a progressive trajectory- a claim she categorically denied and then became upset that it was even suggested in the first place, despite ample evidence to the contrary. We noted our concerns with her four years ago, after we removed her book from our recommended reading list, two years before she was relieved of her duties on the show.
Byrd used to be far more conservative in her beliefs, hiding behind her denomination until she left it last year. During her discourses and online skirmishes, she would frequently point out her membership creds in the OPC as proof positive she’s sound in her beliefs. Then last year, she preached a very strange sermon to a mixed crowd during the Sunday morning service – something her former denomination expressly prohibited.
In a recent article titled Drunk on New Wine that brings everything full circle, she extols the virtues of a youth-led church service, in part because it led by a pastrix, which she likens to the culmination of Pentecost.
The children were collaborating with the adults in leading us to worship. To pray. To read the word of God to us. They were thinking about how the pastor’s sermon affects the lives of the congregation. Before preaching, the pastor credited them with their collaboration, mentioning that all the good parts were theirs and that she takes the responsibility for any parts that weren’t good….
Later, after noting that the “I told you Aimee is on a slippery slope” crowd can feel very vindicated”, Byrd took some potshots at her former denomination, the air acrid with her bite.
I walked away thinking how about how terribly uptight the churches I’ve worshiped so long in are. Quenching the Spirit. Managing Pentecost. Promoting an image that God speaks through the few. The special. The men. The “qualified.” Missing these wonders in the heaven above and the signs on the earth below.
Ultimately, the last five years of Byrd’s life and ministry represent a failure to be honest about what she believes and offer us a picture of what it looks like to reject labels even while covertly embracing them. With this part of her deconstruction complete, we wonder what the next stage will be.