You have to hand it to the Episcopal Church: it may be a tiny denomination, but it generates heroic volumes of paper. Mountains. Heaps. Rivers of paper. But buried deep within this year’s Blue Book are the results of a survey on abuse towards LGBTQ+ persons that is both alarming
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest James Patrick Morgan
Episcopal priest James Patrick Morgan was sentenced in 2015 to ten years in prison for unlawful sexual contact with a female minor. Morgan is a Church Divinity School of the Pacific graduate in 1981. He was a US Navy chaplain from 1983 to 1996. Morgan was one of the first Episcopal
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal teacher Christopher Williams
In May 2005, Holy Spirit Episcopal School teacher Christopher Williams pleaded guilty to receipt and possession of more than 1,000 child pornography images. In December 2003, Texas charges of sexual assault of children at Holy Spirit Episcopal were filed against Williams. The same month, Las Vegas FBI agents searched his
Continue readingTitle IV: The risks of disclosure
Title IV is the canonical framework for clergy discipline in the Episcopal Church. And while it’s constantly being tweaked and re-tweaked, there is a fundamental problem with Title IV. Simply put, the problem is that it does not fully appreciate the importance of disclosure and truth-telling, and leaves victims of
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