"The future is female" according to one feminist slogan. In the Anglican Church, it looks as though that is very much the case: there’s been a rise of 17 per cent of women in the Church of England training to be ordained.
The consecration of Libby Lane as the Cof E’s first female bishop has been one of the wellsprings of this surge, according to its head of discipleship and vocation (also, unsurprisingly, a woman), Catherine Nancekievill. There are now 10 female bishops in the Cof E.
Whatever would that Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox think of this “monstrous regiment of women”, as he described women in any authority?
