The Mullallyfication
of the Church of England
May 16, 2018
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Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, DBE
(née
Bowser; born 26 March 1962) is a British Anglican
bishop and former nurse. She has been Bishop
of London since 8 March 2018. From 1999 to 2004, she was the UK's Chief Nursing Officer and
the National Health Service's
director of patient experience for England; from July 2015 until 2018, she was Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan
bishop in the Diocese
of Exeter.
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Why
was Sarah Mullally chosen to be Bishop of London? This position of pre-eminence
naturally cries out for a distinguished priest who is phenomenally gifted or
has made a remarkable contribution to church and society.
A
few names who would qualify for the position flit across my mind. How about
Michael Nazir-Ali, former bishop of Rochester, Islamic scholar fluent in Urdu,
Arabic and Persian and champion of persecuted Christians in Islamic countries?
Nazir-Ali is a potential dynamo for gospel engagement with the large Muslim
population of Londonistan.
How
about Nicky Gumbel, pioneer of Alpha, a tool that has been used for evangelism
across the world? I am not a fan of Alpha. But Gumbel’s church has grown to one
of the largest in London, with a vision for planting new churches.
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Within each of us exists the image of God,
however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to
recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the
figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of
its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see
and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He
doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major
step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin. -
Alister McGrath
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How
about Alastair McGrath, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at
Oxford University? McGrath is scientist and theologian, has his first doctorate
in molecular biophysics and two further doctorates in theology. An atheist who
became a Christian, McGrath is a stellar public intellectual and apologist. His
rebuttals of Richard Dawkins make the Oxford atheist look like the
classroom dunce.
How
about Giles Fraser, spitting liberal, Marxist radical, pro-gay, doctorate on
Nietzsche and long-time columnist in The Guardian? As far as the east is
from the west, so is my theology and politics from Giles Fraser’s, but the ‘Loose Cannon’ and Brexiteer has
brains and balls and blasts his way into the marketplace of ideas.
McGrath's
rebuttals of Richard Dawkins make the Oxford atheist look like the
classroom dunce.
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But
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be
in silence. - 1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV)
Sad truth that women are disobeying God's Word.
A woman can preach outside of church, but not within, only when preaching to
other women.
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So
what are Mother Mullally’s towering achievements and phenomenal gifts that
qualify her to be appointed to the third most important bishopric in England?
Mullally’s crowning glory is that she is a feminist and so ‘necessarily subversive’
as she portrays herself in her debut sermon.
Feminism
is subversive? Is the new Bishop of London so out of touch with cultural
criticism that she doesn’t even know that feminism has been part of the
dominant orthodoxy for ages? Feminism in the West is as subversive as
environmentalists hugging trees and snowflakes cuddling teddy bears.
‘Subversive’
comes from the Latin sub ‘from below’ and vertere ‘to turn’. The
dictionary defines it as ‘seeking or intended to subvert an established system
or institution’. If Sarah were a smidgen subversive, she wouldn’t have gotten
her toe onto even the first rung of the greasy ladder of the hierarchy in the
established Church of England.
Oh,
do stop playing at being subversive, Bishop Sarah! Don’t hijack the term and
mould it like Play-Doh into yet another establishment cliché. If you were
subversive you’d have spoken out against abortion when you were a midwife like
the midwives Shiprah and Puah from the book of Exodus.
So
what are the other impressive credentials on Mullally’s Curriculum Vitae
that dazzled her selection panel? Mullally unwittingly answers: ‘There
aren’t many bishops who come from comprehensive schools, who are poly
[polytechnic] girls and who did [part-time training] for the priesthood.’
Mullally’s
crowning glory is that she is a feminist and so ‘necessarily subversive’ as she portrays herself in her debut sermon.
‘It’s
not just gender; it’s also your background that’s equally important,’ she adds.
Translated from Anglican virtue-signalling gobbledygook into English, Mullally
was chosen to be Bishop of London because she’s a woman who went to a comp
school and polytechnic and trained at Saint Mickey Mouse Seminary.
Was
she chosen because she walked in the footsteps of the ‘lady with the lamp’ and
like Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing as Chief Nursing Officer? I
asked a senior academic in NHS nursing. He wrote: ‘Who’s she? Certainly didn’t
make much impression.’
Was
she chosen because she was a big hit as Suffragan Bishop of Crediton? I asked a
churchwarden who had Mullally as his bishop. He wrote: ‘My memory is of
being distinctly underwhelmed: expecting a spiritual warm-hearted woman, I
found a polite and non-controversial pen-pusher, okay on the small talk but not
inspiring or memorable.’
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The
Mullallyfication of the Church of England has begun in earnest. A church
requires at least seven characteristics to become truly Mullallyfied.
Mullally
was chosen to be Bishop of London because she’s a woman who went to a comp
school and polytechnic and trained at Saint Mickey Mouse Seminary.
First,
appoint leaders who lack the rigour of a well-grounded seminary education in
theology, scripture, ethics and critical thinking and very soon you will have a
Mullallyfied church.
Second,
appoint women bishops who will ram the feminist agenda right down the aisles
into the rapidly depleting pews. Mullally will now insist on being present in full
regalia at ordination services of Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals who disagree
with the ordination of women.
Third,
appoint bishops who display a studied refusal to address controversial issues
like abortion, gay marriage and militant Islam. Mullally’s view on abortion is
woollier than a Merino sheep. Her blog describes it as ‘pro-choice rather than
pro-live [sic], although if it were a continuum I would be somewhere along it
moving towards pro-life when it relates to my choice, and then enabling choice
when it relates to others’. Huh?
Fourth,
Mullallyfication rejoices in mediocracy over meritocracy. In fact, merit
automatically disqualifies you from being a bishop – because someone clever, or
prophetic, or outspoken is hardly going to toe the establishment line.
Fifth,
Mullallyfication sanctifies the cult of managerialism. Bishop Gavin Ashenden’s
law of inverse proportion defines it thus: ‘the less confidence Christian
leaders have in the experience of the Holy Spirit, the more they depend on the
scaffolding of secular society.’ The religious bureaucrat is obsessed with the
technicalities of safeguarding more than evangelism, preaching, or pastoral
care.
Mullallyfication
rejoices in mediocracy over meritocracy.
Sixth,
a Mullallyfied church will continue to invest in the victimhood
industry. Rather than apply biblical principles of vocation and
spiritual gifts as essential criteria for bishops, candidates will be selected
on the basis of how deprived or discriminated they have been. Gender and skin
colour will be seen as more important than the ability to teach or hold to
sound doctrine. What matters is the colour of your skin, not the content of
your character.
Seventh,
Mullallyfication demands fluency in the discourse of nothingness and niceness.
The scandal of the cross must be domesticated into the sugary geniality of a
Hallmark greeting card. The Mullallyfied bishop and church must virtue signal
faux charity but display very little clarity, especially clarity on the gospel.
Imagine
you’ve had a heart attack. You are given an appointment with a top cardiac
consultant. The surgeon tells you how she got the job. ‘I happened to be a
woman who went to a comprehensive school. I did a part-time online course in
medicine and surgery. I don’t know my aorta from my artery and I often faint at
the sight of blood, but do trust me with your life. You’ll be fine. I promise.’
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