{"id":102868,"date":"2021-06-08T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102868"},"modified":"2021-06-08T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:04:47","slug":"christian-today-i-was-a-smyth-victim-too-says-rector-of-st-helens-bishopsgate-william-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102868","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) I was a Smyth victim too, says Rector of St Helen&#8217;s Bishopsgate William Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor said he had desired to keep his abuse private but felt compelled to make a public statement after some critics on social media suggested he had been involved in a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart goes out to all those abused by Smyth in this country and in Africa,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/i.was.a.smyth.victim.too.says.rector.of.st.helens.bishopsgate\/136915.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Churchwardens at St Helen\u2019s Bishopsgate have published letter to the congregation detailing the action they have taken in response to the 31:8 review of Fletcher abuse &#8211; including an independent legal investigation into the knowledge of William Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7JDnqa9NTn\">https:\/\/t.co\/7JDnqa9NTn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Stevens (@_JohnStevens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_JohnStevens\/status\/1401632895492632582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor said he had desired to keep his abuse private but felt compelled to make a public statement after some critics on social media suggested he had been involved in a cover-up. &#8220;My heart goes out to all those abused<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102868\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,168,435,184,112,110,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102870,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102868\/revisions\/102870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}