i have a rather low church, priesthood of all believers sentiment when it comes to the authority of the institutional church/ordained ministers. but this is less out of an aversion to theological authority per se, it's out of a lack of having been convinced that that authority reliably teaches what i am desperate to know. i won't submit to the teachings of the "inspired magisterium" while it's so often obsessed with homophobia or misogyny or not burying people who have died by suicide, because that's the opposite of what i am so desperate to be taught

teach me to be loving: to be patient, to be kind, not to envy or to boast or to be arrogant or rude; teach me not to insist on my own way and not to be irritable; teach me not to keep record of wrongs, to rejoice in truth instead of in wrongdoing, and to bear all things and believe all things and hope all things and endure all things in love. and then i will submit to authority, and i will believe you are truly appointed by Chrㅤist to teach me—when it is clear that this is what you are striving to do