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After decades of controversies over sexuality and theology in the worldwide Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition says it’s time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world’s largest Protestant church families

Women are increasingly occupying top leadership roles across organisations, political parties and even nations. This may seem unequivocally like a good thing. Yet, many of these roles are undertaken in precarious circumstances, with inherent risks that might make them unattractive to men.

The Catholic Church and Church of England are taking a historic step toward unity

In December 2023 the first same-sex partnerships received blessings as part of wider services.

Letter: Church traditionalists are not motivated by prejudice but by theological conviction, says Rev Simon Jones in response to letters on the first female archbishop of Canterbury

Responses to the project on display at the historic building have been mixed

Bruised by recent events, the Church of England has just entered a new era. Dame Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury is momentous. But Mullally has an enormous challenge ahead of her in healing the wounds that afflict her church. Restoring trust in the church’s senior…

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Letters: Keith Griffin hopes Sarah Mullally can settle the church’s tangles over gender, sexuality and race, while Andrew Groves calls out misogyny. Plus letters by Mark Ynys-Mon, Rev Dr Nicholas Bradbury and Julian Sharpe

“We're still measuring women by who they're married to and whether they're mothers, not by what they've achieved.”

As an academic specialising in gender and the church, the news that Bishop Sarah Mullally would be the next archbishop of Canterbury came as a pleasant shock to me. The announcement of a woman as leader of the Church of England and the “first among equals” in the worldwide Anglican…