An easy target. . .

I put this off hoping it would simply go away.  It didn't.  We have a female woke Archbishop of Canterbury.  She has entered the world's stage at a moment in which Anglicanism appears to be fading off that stage.  Of course she was chosen because she is a woman and has all the right pedigrees and positions for the day.  She did not graduate with a theological degree but was a nurse before donning the collar.  She is one of those who have been busy waiting for this day to come -- it took about 10 years or so to make a woman bishop and now to have had her cook enough to be ready for the big table.  She does not have much of a future.  The Progressive Anglicanism she espouses is weak and dying.  The Africans and Asians will not warm to her but the liberal West certainly will.  

She looks like an aging Vicar of Dibley and her glasses and hairdo come out of a BBC production.  In her first address, Mullally thanked the women that had gone before her. She also spoke of the "quieter and stronger" hope offered by the Anglican church in an "age that craves certainty and tribalism".  Good luck on that.  Though she vehemently opposes assisted death, the recent positions of the Church of England seem to have put that into place as their primary program -- help us die as a church by distancing ourselves more and more from the Scriptures.  

At age 63, she is married with two children, spent over 35 years in the NHS and became the youngest-ever chief nursing officer for England in 1999.  She has been a priest for 24 years and Bishop of London since 2018.  Obviously, she was not chosen for her long record of service but maybe a hospice nurse is exactly what the C of E needs now.  Slow the death, ease the suffering, administer the painkillers, and let the patient die in peace -- what more could you want? Maybe she could join Pope Leo in chipping off enough of his blessed ice block to make a decent gin and tonic and they could talk shop.  Or maybe she could paper over the cracks in the C of E enough to give the body in the coffin the appearance of once having been alive.   

The American leader of the Episcopal Church said this of her:  she is “a wise and steady leader, a faithful advocate for the leadership of women in the church, and a bishop who will be committed to safeguarding vulnerable people and victims of abuse.”   Well, there you have it.  As long as she safeguards the vulnerable and advocates for victims of abuse, what need is there to know the Scriptures or preach Christ crucified and risen?  It is surely enough that she is against all the sins currently unpopular and for al the ones that are, isn't it?  

Mullally will take office at a tough moment for the Anglican Communion, poised to consider changes to the archbishop of Canterbury’s leadership role in the communion and the whole way that Anglican provinces relate to one another.  In two proposalsto be taken up next year by the Anglican Consultative Council, how the  42 Anglican provinces relate to each other will be changed resulting in the de-emphasis of the Church of England and the archbishop of Canterbury while emphasizing more the geographically diverse global leaders of the Anglican and Episcopal churches.  That should be fun.  As one wag put it:  "Everybody in the Church of England will be polite to her, but few will listen to whatever she has to say…"

Okay, enough snark for today.  As you can see, I am not a fan.