Month: August 2023 - Page 6

Former ELCA pastor Nate Luong’s loose lips sink his own ship

August 21, 2023 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Reprinted with permission from The Warburg Watch. We find the discussion of blind loyalty to abusive clergy particularly relevant to the Episcopal Church. We find the claims that Luong is a “man of integrity” profoundly offensive. One cannot be a person of integrity and sexually abuse a child. “Of all

Why Anglican Watch no longer covers the Singh case

August 21, 2023 Anglican Watch One comment

Anglican Watch has received several questions about our decision to stop covering the abuse allegations in the Bishop Singh case. Here’s why we made that decision. We’ve received correspondence from Nivedhan Singh critical of our tone and our irate references to wrongdoers. Nivedhan made special note of our calling his

Title IV proceedings against bishops John Howard and George Sumner remain stalled

August 21, 2023 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Title IV complaints against Florida bishop John Howard and Dallas Bishop George Sumner remain in limbo in the presiding bishop’s office. In the case of Howard, a January 2023 Title IV complaint alleging discrimination against LGBTQ clergy has yet to move forward, and the Office of Presiding Bishop has done

Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Will Bouvel

August 21, 2023 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Will Bouvel, associate rector of St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church on Chicago’s Gold Coast, joins our list of abusive clergy for his role in the David Duggan debacle. In that matter, Bouvel sought an anti-stalking protective order against Duggan, a parishioner, on the basis that Duggan had objected in writing to

Jesse on Disclosure of Bishop John Howard Title IV charges suggests possible criminal conduct: “And still TEC and most dioceses do not have independent financial audits conducted. All of the auditing is kept internal.”

Anglican Watch on Central Indiana Presbytery (PCA) proves it’s unsafe at any speed by threatening fellow blogger Dee Parsons: “Not that we’ve been able to confirm, but we’re still digging. It seems like, with Goligher out of the mix,…”

Anglican Watch on Rev. Dr. Jon Payne of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in South Carolina Accused of Physical, Psychological, Sexual, and Spiritual Abuse by His Former Fiancée: “First, we are always dubious when a woman subject to the patriarchy “recants” due to the inherent disparity of power.…”

Jonathan Poletti on Rev. Dr. Jon Payne of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in South Carolina Accused of Physical, Psychological, Sexual, and Spiritual Abuse by His Former Fiancée: “You’re very irresponsible to report Elisha Boggs’ one-sided report uncritically. In fact she proved to be a rampant fabulator and…”

Bob Emery on Central Indiana Presbytery (PCA) proves it’s unsafe at any speed by threatening fellow blogger Dee Parsons: “Off topic, but did the local presbytery finally get around to excommunicating “Dr” Goligher? I seem to remember that in…”