{"id":121969,"date":"2023-07-11T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121969"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:41:56","slug":"af-somethings-not-right-at-church-of-england-general-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121969","title":{"rendered":"(AF) Something&#8217;s Not Right at Church of England General Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"viewer-dgj5n\" class=\"xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Jane Chevous, a representative of survivors of church abuse, opened the proceedings with a damning description of the events leading up to the decision to sack the board, the incompetent way it was handled and the devastating impact it has had on already vulnerable people. <\/span><\/p>\n<div data-hook=\"rcv-block8\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-btcpd\" class=\"xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>\u201cFor as we learned this weekend,\u201d <\/em>she explained, \u201c<em>Getting the papers prepared for Synod was more important than the lives of survivors. At 12.17 that day Jasvinder phoned me to share the devastating news \u2013 I felt like my whole world had crumbled around me. I had trusted the ISB. I had hope. And now that hope had been snatched from me and trampled underfoot.\u201d <\/em>[at 5.14 on video]<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-hook=\"rcv-block9\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-8fi1j\" class=\"xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Despite their claims to the contrary, the response of the Council representatives, particularly the Archbishop of York, Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, was defensive and self-asserting. In his introductory remarks he said,<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-hook=\"rcv-block10\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"viewer-29mju\" class=\"xVISr Y9Dpf bCMSCT OZy-3 lnyWN yMZv8w bCMSCT public-DraftStyleDefault-block-depth0 fixed-tab-size public-DraftStyleDefault-text-ltr\"><span class=\"B2EFF public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><em>\u201cI want you to know Synod, though I can\u2019t make you believe me, but I want you to know, that the decisions we took were some of the most painful decisions I have ever had to be part of in my life and work, but we took them believing them to be the were the right decisions for the safeguarding of the church? Could we have communicated them better? Could things have been different in the past? They are things we can discuss and they are certainly things we can learn from \u2013 I do want you to know that my concern has always been for the safeguarding of the church.\u201d <\/em>[at 18.50 on video]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanfutures.org\/post\/something-s-not-right-at-synod\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a trustee of Anglican Futures I&#39;m biased but this is really good on how the Church of England is just repeating its safeguarding errors during Synod in York.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIRD6KKKu3\">https:\/\/t.co\/EIRD6KKKu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Leafe (@DanLeafe1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanLeafe1\/status\/1678389666297290752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2023<\/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>Jane Chevous, a representative of survivors of church abuse, opened the proceedings with a damning description of the events leading up to the decision to sack the board, the incompetent way it was handled and the devastating impact it has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121969\">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":[73,382,67,389,635,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-analysis","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121969","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=121969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121972,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121969\/revisions\/121972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}