Former OPC Mainstay Aimee Byrd Officiates Wedding: ‘…the most real, Spirit-filled experiences of my life’
Former OPC mainstay and professing-complementarian-turned-egalitarian Aimee Byrd continues her repudiation and deconstruction of her former convictions, sharing on her Substack that she officiated a wedding last week that she insists “ranks up there with the most real, Spirit-filled experiences of my life.”
Once part of The Mortification of Spin, a podcast she co-hosted with Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt, Byrd 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, to non-existent.
For years, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s version of Beth Moore rebuffed any notion or concerns that she was on a progressive trajectory- a claim she categorically denied while her denomination and cohosts covered and made excuses for her until even they had to cut her loose, resulting in her leaving the denomination in 2021.
Not that we had trouble clocking it. We noted our concerns with Byrd seven years ago after we removed her book from our recommended reading list more than four years before she was relieved of her duties on the show. Since then, she’s been preaching sermons, giving benedictions, and blasting her former beliefs as “rot” that “harmonizes with racism.” (see below)
To read more about Byrd
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Aimee Byrd says Complementarianism is ‘Misogynist’, ‘Rot’, and ‘Harmonizes with Racism’
‘Mortification Of Spin’ Host Repents of Endorsing Co-host Aimee Byrd’s Book
The Drift Is Real: Aimee Byrd Preaches a Weird, Weird Sermon At SBC Church
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This brings us to the festivities.
Byrd was ordained by the American Marriage Ministries (AMM), a 501(c)3 non-profit, “non-denominational church that ordains people online so that they can officiate weddings for friends, family, and community” in a process that took less than three minutes to complete.
A church in name only, AMM doesn’t have a pastor, a building, sermons, prayers, worship, or even congregants. Instead, the only condition to join is to agree with their views on marriage, one of which is you must be LGBTQ-affirming. According to AMM, “Becoming a minister with the AMM does not require you to hold any particular spiritual belief. We only ask that you agree to our organization’s three tenets, which are listed on our ordination application.
Newly ordained, Byrd writes that officiating the wedding for her brother and now sister-in-law “resonated so deeply with my soul” that “it felt like I got to meet a part of who I am.” She reveals:
They wanted me to do it, to officiate their wedding. My dad gave me a bit of a heads up that this was their desire. When I first heard it, I thought it absurd.
Maybe, anyway. I mean, I’m no pastor or civil official, and I don’t want to pretend to be one. I have a high regard for the pastorate. But this is my brother asking me, and if I say no, I want it to be for good reason.
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