Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
As we suspected, Episcopal priest Dan McClain has a psych evaluation floating around out there in conjunction with his divorce litigation. But in reviewing the various motions and pleadings filed in the case, it looks like he’s playing games with production of that document. Given that the one consistent theme
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One of the things we find interesting about the uproar at St. Paul’s Dayton is the extent to which Dan McClain appears to project his own issues onto others. As in telling people that his wife is mentally ill—even as, from our vantage point, McClain himself appears to be a
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We recently spoke with Jimmy Leach, former music director at St. Paul’s, Dayton. His experiences with rector Dan McClain confirm the numerous other accounts we have heard of McClain behaving badly and without regard for the welfare of others. Leach was hired in 2019 by Father John Atkins, who went
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One surefire sign of a toxic parish—which usually means a toxic priest too—is when church members don’t see the need to tell the truth. And so it is with St. Paul’s Dayton, where we just nuked comments from a “Jasper,” posting under the email address “[email protected].” So, let’s clarify a
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