Psalmist

Cheryl, I think the advice was proved sound when you got the response you did.

When someone contacts you uninvited, at the hostile urging of a third party, and claims to want to instruct you, it simply must be done in public or not at all. No mature, healthy Christian would object to saying in the presence of witnesses what they intend to say in private. Your “instructor” knows you made perfectly sound, reasonable statements at the Bayly blog. There was no reason for you to be “instructed,” and she knew it. She merely has a big axe to grind against her declared enemies, those who believe in and practice biblical equality. You were right to invite her to say her piece in public, and it says volumes about her that she was offended by the public venue.

IMO, you could not have handled it any better.