The Church of England's first female diocesan bishop is urging the church body to stop calling God "He," after a survey found that less than half of British Christians believe God is male.

 

"I don't want young girls or young boys to hear us constantly refer to God as he," the Rt. Rev. Rachel Treweek, bishop of Gloucester, told The Telegraph. Treweek said that leadership needs to be "mindful of our language." "For me particularly in a bigger context, in all things, whether it's that you go to a website and you see pictures of all white people, or whether you go to a website and see the use of 'he' when we could use 'god,' all of those things are giving subconscious messages to people, so I am very hot about saying can we always look at what we are communicating," she added