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1/6) @seaofcomplicity getting to the structural nub at the heart of a whole plethora of problems with present @churchofengland The reputation, rather than justice focussed, moral oblivion of the present episcopal structure in relation to abuse, cries out for the structural.... https://twitter.com/seaofcomplicity/status/1327678923652665344
2) renewal & reform of the entire episcopal culture. Secretive processes of appointment & decision making, lack of transparency, scrutiny & accountability are incompatible with Jesus’ vision of the justice of the fullness of God’s reign. Such reforms are also necessary in....
3) order to address the increasing managerial disconnect between the present episcopacy & the reality & diversity of parish life & of God’s creation. This is glaringly seen in the #LLF process: the present episcopacy ask the rest of us to engage in ways they will not themselves..
4)what is very problematic even on a sympathetic reading of the #LLF materials & process, which emphasizes the fact that we may want to be a church that celebrates difference, is that this cannot be effected until bishops internally model those differences in a public manner....
5) this also relates to those LGBTQIA+ bishops partnered or not & bishops who are ‘private’ LGBTQIA+ ‘allies.’ If they are not now able as part of #LLF to be vulnerable & ‘come out’ themselves, it undermines what the bishops themselves envisage the #LLF process in part to be....
6) & it also problematically increases the distinction between the episcopacy and the rest of the church: the church in general cannot be called to be vulnerable and open if the bishops fail to be vulnerable and open themselves.
