We need to keep in mind that all the heavy lifting for change in CofE Safeguarding was undertaken by people excluded from power and influence by the prevailing culture. We should be very slow to let that culture have significant influence in modifying Prof Jay’s recommendations.

General Synod thought:- we never did get the answer to the questions “ Who selected the members of the Jay Report Response Group and what were the criterial for their selection”? I wonder why not?

Maybe the fact that Truro is the first diocese where the number of Full Time Equivalent posts in Diocesan HQ (40.6) is larger than the number of FTE stipendiary priests (39) should lead to a period of reflection on the part of the diocese, not lashing out in anger at their laity

The first task for the CofE Jay Response Group is to define agree & publish what it understands by “Independence”. The Wilkinson report explicitly identifies confusion as to what independence means as a cause of failure of the ISB Project. This error must not be replicated

First day today at a Quaker Meeting for some time. I am grateful for shared space and sanctity.

Q. Dave do you know your theology is dangerous? A. I hope so. Q. Dave what if you are a heretic? A. Then I'm in good company. Q.Dave the Jesus I know is no revolutionary? A. Get to know him better.

You know the trauma informed approach is embedded when this is one of the entries in the Easter Decorate and Egg competition 🐣❤️ Anthony McGeeney AJH SpecialEdHead FCCT Chris Reddy FCCT Chris Dyson FCCT Ben Brown🔥 northern headteacher ⚓️ Dr Vic Carr ⚓️ Laura Robson HT John Magee 🇬🇧UK Kindness Schools' Ambassador

***BIG NEWS*** For the entire month of April, we'll be doing Groceries For Guns -- offering food vouchers of $250 for each long gun and $150 for each handgun that is surrendered. And every weekend in April we'll be chopping up guns and turning them into garden tools... in

On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed, by hanging, for his resistance to the Nazis. Dietrich Bonhoeffer studied theology in Germany and the United States and pastored a church in London before returning to Germany as a leader of the Confessing Church, which tried to

Put simply in this BBC essay, the CofE cannot be trusted and it does not know what it is doing. Many of us have been saying this for many years. Grateful for the BBC shining a spotlight on the debacle. Only statutory legislation will resolve this now. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…