{"id":133291,"date":"2024-12-09T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133291"},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:24:20","slug":"church-times-clergy-are-scared-of-a-culture-of-guilt-and-blame-says-bishop-of-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133291","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Clergy are scared of a culture of guilt and blame, says Bishop of Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201catmosphere of blame and guilt\u201d that has followed publication of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/john-smyth\">Makin Review<\/a>\u00a0is creating a culture of fear that encourages cover-up, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-blackburn\">Bishop of Blackburn<\/a>, the Rt Revd Philip North, warned this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke of \u201creal fear in the local church\u201d among clergy and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/safeguarding\">parish safeguarding officers<\/a>&nbsp;(PSOs), who needed reassurance about their practice, and of the importance of creating a \u201cno-blame atmosphere, where we are asking not who but why, where we are all looking to improve in an atmosphere where we won\u2019t be hung out to dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI regret this atmosphere of blame and guilt that has followed Makin and is being stirred up by all sorts of people including some of my colleagues, because it creates a culture of fear, and and a culture of fear encourages cover-up,\u201d he said on Tuesday. \u201cWhereas, for good safeguarding, you need a no-blame culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/6-december\/news\/uk\/clergy-are-scared-of-a-culture-of-guilt-and-blame-says-bishop-of-blackburn\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clergy are scared of a culture of guilt and blame, says Bishop of Blackburn <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hKcPNAe9Dg\">https:\/\/t.co\/hKcPNAe9Dg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1865284216130297970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201catmosphere of blame and guilt\u201d that has followed publication of the\u00a0Makin Review\u00a0is creating a culture of fear that encourages cover-up, the\u00a0Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Revd Philip North, warned this week. He spoke of \u201creal fear in the local<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133291\">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":[175,389,635,168,435,184,177,108,112,110,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133291","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=133291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133294,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133291\/revisions\/133294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}