By William Mata

At the end of a particularly traumatic news week, perhaps a glimmer of positivity has been the election of Dame Sarah Mullally as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

Leading any religion brings its own unique challenges, and the new archbishop inherits a Church of England rocked by the safeguarding scandal that led to the resignation of her predecessor, Justin Welby.

The historic institution is also having something of an identity crisis, with growing calls for it to be separated from an increasingly secular state, while a mini culture war stirs within its members every time the church considers how it might respond to societal change. Debates around issues of gender equality, LGBT rights, and now even AI are never far away. There is now the worrying trend of the far right attempting to somehow........

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