You will face the new Archbishop of Canterbury, old evils

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In February, the bishop Sarah Mulali collapsed in crying at the England Church Association, Senod General, playing the barriers that women are still facing within her faith traditions. Crying in front of her peers, she did what many women did in leadership positions before, and many have regretted. This feeling is stubborn by being subjected to brotherhood by the inability to control your emotions, and apparently confirms to those who believe that driving is a man of a man who is not cut for that.

But now, after vacancies for a year and a secret voting, the number 10 has been announced that Mullalli will rise to the top of this old institution. When you become the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, she will be the first woman to be installed on the throne of St. Augustine.

Mulloll is not strange to the first: she was the first woman to be the bishop of London; In her nursing career before entering the church, NHS rows climbed to become the smallest nursing officer ever. You will also be the second bishop that does not carry Oxbridge degree. Although the ceiling on which it was destroyed is colored glass, it will face many challenges that women face in driving in all sectors of society. When one of the prevailing broadcasters announced the news, she stated that she was a former woman and nurse, her husband, that she was the mother of two children, but she failed to mention her name. In addition to changing ça.

This step was welcomed by many of the progressive step of the church that faced beating in recent years due to its protection failures, and the numbers of attendance and fighting faded from theological differences regarding the relations between the gay. In light of this, the appointment of a woman in the name of “106” sends a sign that the Church of England admits that it needs something different if it wants to restore the confidence of the audience, and to think creatively about how to bring hope to a world that seems to be burning. However, as if the role of the head of the Canterbury bishop will not be sufficiently challenge, Mulloll will face an additional layer of challenge specifically because she is a woman.

It is not strange to this. As the Bishop of London – the third largest position in the Church of England – she faced daily women’s hatred on the Internet, interrogating her leadership, and reducing – as she described it in the February Senodes – “fine collapse”. The Crown Nominations Committee, which has chosen Molaly, may be comfortable with evidence that companies with female executive chiefs are more available to the risks and have more positive financial results, and a higher possibility to survive. This is despite the fact that women leaders are more cruelly judged on how they talk, and what they wear, to what extent do they agree – or do not do – for a male male style of stereotypes.

Some of the church wings have already shown that they will not accept the authority of the head of the new bishops. Based on their interpretations of the Bible, they do not believe that women should lead local churches, not to mention the leadership of the entire Anglican society. This is not just an issue for conservative churches in the global south, and some may want to demonstrate. There are strong forces inside the churches in London and the rest of England bearing the same opinions. Mullalyly will continue to provide space for those who do not agree to it on issues such as women’s coordination. She also said in her first speech as the head of the elected bishop, she will aim to be “a sponsor, enables everyone to be invited to prosperity-whatever this tradition.”

Mullolli will now get an impossible job in behavior as a personal, priest, strategic, theologian, spokesperson and sponsor to 85 million members of Anglican communication all over the world, some believe that just the fact that this situation is given contradicts the will of God.