John Stephenson recounts here the descent of England into a national apostasy. England is no longer the same nation that gave the world the King James Bible. Scripture reminds us that “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” (1 Tim 4:1, NIV)

“When the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dame Sarah Mullally was elected as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury on January 28, 2026, there was zero prospect of her broaching the topic of national apostasy, even though England’s falling away from Christian faith and practice entered its terminal stage some decades ago. Her damehood conferred in recognition of her years of service as England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Mullally took a less than academically strenuous route into the ministry, juggling her heavy administrative duties with part-time seminary studies that culminated in a Diploma in Theology from the University of Kent.

Ordained for part-time, non-stipendiary ministry, Mullally went on to serve no more than eight years in a parish before beginning her dizzying ascent up the ranks of the senior clergy, first for two years as a cathedral canon at Salisbury, then as one of the first two women consecrated to the upper tier of ministry in the Church of England. She served only two years as suffragan bishop of Crediton before landing the plum see of London in 2017, which she occupied for almost a decade before her elevation to the post of Primate of All England.

On the announcement of her appointment to Canterbury, Dame Sarah, already known to be a keen supporter of liturgical blessings of same-sex unions, declared herself pro-choice with respect to abortion, though she was still hesitant to embrace the euthanasia legislation then undergoing its final stages of parliamentary approval. There appears to be nothing not-woke about Dame Sarah.

. . . The question must be posed and honestly answered whether the English nation as such can continue as a recognizable entity still bearing its historic DNA even after the demise of the English Church. Given that the marked majority status of the Church of England, still apparent in the early 1960s, is now a thing of the past . . . William Tighe has long pointed to the parallels between the ecclesial and social situations of Scandinavia and the British Isles, intimating that where the Church of Sweden is seen to go, the Church of England duly follows in its train . . . As the Church of England now sheepishly follows a state that in decriminalizing abortion has presumed to abolish the moral law that originates in the eternal mind of God, and as the cathedral of the new lady archbishop seeks to win back young people by hosting “Raves in the Nave” and featuring graffiti on its pillars that cross the borderline of blasphemy, the ecclesial institution that still has a warm place in my memory as my spiritual mother is drunkenly accelerating along the exit ramp from holy Christendom. If the English state is ever to regain any integrity, the English Church (understanding her to encompass more than the long-derisory and now increasingly contemptible Church of England) must turn from her season of unbridled spiritual whoredom to renew her chaste union with her divine Bridegroom.”