{"id":141234,"date":"2025-11-17T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141234"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:26:08","slug":"je-season-of-strain-and-sorrow-anglican-bishops-inhibit-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141234","title":{"rendered":"(JE) \u2018Season of Strain and Sorrow\u2019: Anglican Bishops Inhibit Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTo state the matter carefully: ACNA is in profound trouble, and I do not think that the people in charge of ACNA see how much trouble we are in,\u201d Anglican Diocese of South Carolina Canon Theologian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/tag\/kendall-harmon\/\">Kendall Harmon<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.ink\/2025\/11\/07\/concerns-from-my-heart-about-the-deep-acna-leadership-crisis\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0to his diocesan standing committee on October 29 in a letter widely circulated across the ACNA. Harmon, a senior clergyman who served multiple tours as a deputy to Episcopal General Convention when his diocese was within the Episcopal Church, has a reputation as a reserved introvert and judicious thinker not prone to rash pronouncement&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hearing panel convened by the Dean of the Province (Dobbs) will evaluate the presentment to determine if it meets the criteria to move forward to a trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmon is among those stressing that the complaints against Wood are not the extent of the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the college of Bishops starting to do the right thing, even though it\u2019s late but they need to realize that,\u201d Harmon told IRD. \u201cWe need a process we can trust. Communication and transparency need to be vastly improved, and quickly. Both the [Diocese of the Upper Midwest Bishop Stuart] Ruch fiasco and this mess are but symptoms. What does that tell you about the disease?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2025\/11\/17\/anglican-archbishop-inhibited\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As Archbishop Steve Wood is suspended by the senior-most bishops of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_ACNA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@The_ACNA<\/a>. Some are stressing that complaints against Wood are not the extent of a crisis of trust. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mffu3ORkE1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mffu3ORkE1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jeff Walton (@jeffreyhwalton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffreyhwalton\/status\/1990552378530308119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo state the matter carefully: ACNA is in profound trouble, and I do not think that the people in charge of ACNA see how much trouble we are in,\u201d Anglican Diocese of South Carolina Canon Theologian\u00a0Kendall Harmon\u00a0wrote\u00a0to his diocesan standing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141234\">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":[63,168,435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141234","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=141234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141236,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141234\/revisions\/141236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}