Imagine you send your kids to a public school. One day, your kids come home and tell you, “You have it all wrong. The earth is flat! My teacher told me so.” What’s your reaction as you pick yourself up off the floor? Initially, you probably think to yourself, “They
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Excellent new CoE safeguarding standards underscore dismal state of safeguarding in Episcopal Church
The Church of England (CoE) recently released new safeguarding standards, which create an integrated framework for preventing, identifying, and responding appropriately to abuse. The announcement comes at a time when the Episcopal Church is increasingly abandoning safeguarding efforts, even amidst the push for Title IV accountability for clergy. The CoE standards
Continue readingBreaking news: GCA returns Grant’s belongings
It’s been an arduous ride, but after more than three years, Grace Christian Academy (GCA) has finally returned the items taken from Grant Solomon’s funeral. One of the things that was particularly arduous was that Grant’s baseball coach, Brad Myers, ignored repeated requests from Grant’s mother, Angie, to return the
Continue readingDARVO: key tactic of serial abusers and other low-lifes
As we cover abuse in the Episcopal Church and other denominations, there’s an almost universal element to every case. That element is DARVO, which is shorthand for “deny and reverse victim/offender.” Our first experience with DARVO Candidly, most here at Anglican Watch didn’t even know what the term meant until we saw perjuring priest
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