{"id":142730,"date":"2026-01-20T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142730"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:57:14","slug":"ai-tiffany-butler-acna-director-of-safeguarding-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142730","title":{"rendered":"(AI) Tiffany Butler, ACNA director of safeguarding, stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Anglican Church in North America is advertising for the position of a new director of Safeguarding and Canonical Affairs, according to posting made to its website on January 17, 2026. A spokesman for the ACNA stated the present director of safeguarding was leaving her post. Tiffany Butler \u201cfelt increasingly called to pursue a career in research, education, and to explore a calling to monastic orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACNA spokesman added: \u201cWe anticipate filling the role before she departs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of safeguarding had been under fire for her handling of the controversies surrounding Bishops Derek Jones and Stewart Ruch, and Archbishop Steve Wood. Supporters of Ms. Butler tell Anglican.Ink she was not properly resourced by the ACNA and her work did not have the support of the church\u2019s top leaders \u2013 leading to frustration from victim advocates and from current and former ACNA staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.ink\/2026\/01\/18\/acna-director-of-safeguarding-stepping-down\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UuuIaGnZHT\">https:\/\/t.co\/UuuIaGnZHT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; George Conger (@GeorgeConger8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeConger8\/status\/2013052406255296906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church in North America is advertising for the position of a new director of Safeguarding and Canonical Affairs, according to posting made to its website on January 17, 2026. A spokesman for the ACNA stated the present director<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142730\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142730","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=142730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142733,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142730\/revisions\/142733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}