The newly appointed bishop of Gloucester, has had to ask the Queen not to write to her as a Reverend Father in God. She returned the document addressed to her. The scribes have not caught up yet. She is not a father. This has been the time-honoured way of addressing Christian bishops down the ages, but it stops now for the Church of England.
But Rachel of Gloucester has gone further and said it is not just her gender that is in the frame after her appointment, but God’s. She does not choose to address God as ‘He’
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