Imagine: You work for IBM. You quit showing up for work. You are insubordinate. After much back and forth, your boss fires you. Yet a few years later, you’re back in a similar gig, only this time as a volunteer. Does that sound like a good move on your part?
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More bishops on the move. More trouble for TEC.
With the recent debacle in the slate of candidates for bishop of Virginia, and the ongoing noise about the elections in Florida, it’s worth noting that there are a number of bishops on the move. And when a member of the Pointy Hats Club moves, trouble often follows. Sometimes, as
Continue readingEpiscopal Diocese of Newark ignores potential Heather Cook 2.0 situation
For years, the Episcopal Church has been droning on about the need to deal with impaired clergy. Things seemingly reached the boiling point following the Heather Cook debacle, but in reality very little has changed. And now, Anglican Watch has received troubling allegations of theft, bullying, alcoholism, and possible narcissistic personality disorder
Continue readingEpiscopal church turns its back on deposed Heather Cook
On December 27, 2014, The Rt. Rev. Heather Cook, then suffragan bishop for the Diocese of Maryland, struck and killed Tom Palermo, a cyclist and married father of two in a DUI. Following the accident, Cook fled the scene, and passed by it again later that day without stopping. When
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