{"id":88965,"date":"2020-01-28T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88965"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:26:57","slug":"chrsitan-today-c-of-es-clergy-discipline-process-leading-to-suicide-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88965","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) C of E’s clergy discipline process ‘leading to suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

…no-one in the official Church hierarchy has a proper overview of what is happening, according to the investigation<\/a> by the Sheldon Hub \u2013 part of a charity supporting those in Christian ministry. And Bishops are operating “irregular discipline” over clergy which is ‘even less accountable’, the report adds.<\/p>\n

The Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM) was introduced in 2003 and is supposed to deal “efficiently and fairly with formal complaints of serious misconduct against members of the clergy” \u2013 according<\/a> to the Church of England website.<\/p>\n

However, the CDM has been subjected<\/a> to scathing criticism \u2013 and even the Church’s own explanatory diagram of the processes involved reveals a highly complex and confusing structure.
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The report from the Sheldon Hub says: “We started two years ago with the assumption that the likely outcome of our project should be better training for those tasked with implementation of the existing CDM, plus some repairs to the Measure.<\/p>\n

“The process so far has convinced us that the Measure is so fundamentally flawed that starting over from first principles and completely replacing the Measure is essential.”<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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C of E’s clergy discipline process ‘leading to suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder’ https:\/\/t.co\/PcgzoouBKz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kate Andreyev (@KateAndreyev) January 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n