Church reveals ‘insanity’ by declaring itself a risk factor
by Andrea Williams, Christian Concern:
How did we get to the point where a Church of England diocese would label a moderate, reasonable chaplain like Rev. Dr Bernard Randall as a safeguarding risk, citing the church itself as a risk factor?
Dr Randall lost his job at Trent College after questioning the wholesale acceptance of ideological and inaccurate LGBT training from Educate and Celebrate. He questioned the school’s approval of Educate and Celebrate but was excluded from meetings because he might disagree. When asked by a student to address why they had to “accept all this LGBT stuff in a Christian school” he gave a measured and completely appropriate sermon saying no one could be forced to believe in ideology.
For this he was disciplined, sidelined, dismissed, reinstated and eventually made redundant.
Everything that happened to Dr Randall through these procedures at the school was absurd and damaging, but somehow the Church of England citing its own beliefs as a risk factor encapsulates the pernicious insanity of all that has happened.
We can only arrive at this situation via countless weak or foolish decisions.
On the school’s side, so much went wrong:
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