Not Celebrating the Installation of Dame Sarah?

Abstract The article uses the recent installation of Sarah Mullaly as Archbishop of Canterbury as the impetus to reflect on the continuing opposition by some within the Anglican Communion to the ordination of women on the basis of a perceived prohibition in the Christian Scriptures. The article explores the permissibility of women teaching and preaching in the mixed Christian assembly, the idea of functional subordination of both the second person of the Trinity and of women, the issue of cultural conditioning, the submission of women and headship of men as a ‘creational principle’ and concluding that these arguments are not well founded and are indeed problematic. It also concludes that there is no barrier to the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion. Any such continued opposition does not represent the mind of God and cannot be justified by use of the Scriptures.