Radical progressive activism and the Church of England
by Jim McConalogue, Rachel Neal and Jack Harris, Civitas:
In a new report, researchers have set out to investigate the scale of support for ultra-progressive radical activist agendas alleging ‘systemic racism’ in English society, the understanding and use of ‘unconscious biases’ and prescribing a ‘climate emergency’ doctrine within the Church of England.
As Tom Harris writes in the Foreword, this ‘complete departure from the Church’s central purpose risks making it unrecognisable to the grass roots members who support it’. It marks a ‘separation of the head from the body that is becoming alarmingly recognisable in so many of our national institutions’.
This report surveys the growing adoption of ultra-progressive values by the Church of England. The research examines the reported instances of clergy involvement in campaign messages which supported their faith in those doctrines across the 42 dioceses of the Church. By observing and recording the involvement of the appointed Bishops, vicars, Rectors, ministers or other clergy in those campaigns, we found that some measurement could be made of the clergy-adopted progressivist values within each diocese.
The researchers found:
‘There is a common denominator of leadership acquiescence or a particular vulnerability among leaders about their approach to society, ordinary human values and a laziness in objecting to questionable claims and narratives, often to appease relentless and large-scale agitators.’
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