{"id":140764,"date":"2025-10-23T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140764"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:41:51","slug":"tlc-acna-primate-steve-wood-faces-misconduct-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140764","title":{"rendered":"(TLC) ACNA Primate Steve Wood Faces Misconduct Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though the complainants were numerous enough to meet the canonical threshold for making a formal complaint, their charges are in limbo. One complainant, the Rev. Rob Sturdy, told the&nbsp;<em>Post<\/em>&nbsp;that after the sworn complaint was submitted, the ACNA\u2019s provincial office returned it, asking all 11 complainants to sign again with an additional statement of attestation to their allegations\u2019 truth \u201cunder penalties of perjury.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sturdy said the complainant group refuses to comply, calling it a \u201cnoncanonical requirement\u201d that \u201cattempt[s] to intimidate our signatories with potential legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ACNA spokesperson told TLC that Dr. Tiffany Butler, director of safeguarding and canonical affairs, made the demand, calling it \u201cthe typical standard for any \u2018sworn statement\u2019 and the standard applied to other presentments received under this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, Chancellor Bill Nelson, in consultation with the College of Bishops, has acknowledged that no rigid formulation of the oath is required and, in particular, that it does not need to include the phrase \u2018under penalties of perjury.\u2019 Our hope is to have resolution on this matter as quickly as possible,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingchurch.org\/news\/news-anglican-communion\/acna-archbishop-faces-misconduct-charges\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Livng_Church?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Livng_Church<\/a>: ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TBBMcDfszU\">https:\/\/t.co\/TBBMcDfszU<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Arlie Coles (@ArlieColes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArlieColes\/status\/1981666818470408447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\nI will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the complainants were numerous enough to meet the canonical threshold for making a formal complaint, their charges are in limbo. One complainant, the Rev. Rob Sturdy, told the&nbsp;Post&nbsp;that after the sworn complaint was submitted, the ACNA\u2019s provincial office returned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140764\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,168,437,435,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140764","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=140764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140769,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140764\/revisions\/140769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}