Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Regular readers will be familiar with our references to an excellent book on church misconduct written by The Very Rev. Canon Dr. Robin Hammeal-Urban, Wholeness After Betrayal: Restoring Trust in the Wake of Misconduct. At the time of publication, Hammeal-Urban was the Canon for Mission Integrity for the Diocese of Ct. The
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James Tramel, a convicted murderer turned Episcopal priest, was proudly displayed by the Episcopal church as a symbol of the power of redemption after the church lobbied successfully for his parole. Following his release, Tramel was quickly placed at the helm of San Francisco’s historic Trinity Episcopal Church. But things
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You have to hand it to the Anglican Communion — when members misbehave, they do so in a big way. The Rev Pitotori Peter Naera, an Anglican priest in New Zealand, has resigned from ministry after performing a wedding for a couple, then having an affair with the bride. The woman
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Episcopal priest John E. McGinn, then rector of St. John’s church in Sandwich Ma, was suspended in 2013 after allegedly plagiarizing more than a dozen sermons from the online publication “Dynamic Preaching.” Fifteen sermons were identified as being used verbatim from the book, with McGinn’s plagiarism extending back to at least
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