Thread by @monkofjustice

🧵Some (hopefully) simple questions that I hope someone can answer for us: 1. Is it actually the teaching of @The_ACNA that there is no Scriptural "category" of "whistleblower," even with many examples of individuals and prophets who challenged established power structures? 1/

https://twitter.com/ArlieColes/status/1986482329095655809

2. Is it actually the position of @The_ACNA that a bishop who may be engaging in misconduct can order his presbyters to remain silent about it, whether by fiat or use of "Godly Admonition"? 2/

3. Is it actually the position of @The_ACNA that a presbyter seeking canonically authorized review of his inhibition should be episcopally berated for two pages rather than simply informed his petition was denied b/c it didn't meet the standard? 3/

4. Would the process have been any different if the presbyter alleged that the bishop was assaulting the complainant or, e.g., attempting to remove the presbyter from office as rector through unlawful means? If so, why? 4/

5. What will happen when the Board of Inquiry in the Jones matter returns its finding, as the interim leadership team are both conflicted out of acting on the case - another interim ad hoc sub-team? Who will keep track of who can do what to whom? 5/

6. What are "you" teaching the bishops about their theological and canonical role in your "baby bishops' school"? Who is teaching them? Can you make the materials public? Because something isn't quite right and we'd like a look. 6/

7. Won't many of these issues go away if the proposed revisions to Title IV are enacted next summer? 7/

8. Was there, by chance, a former chancellor involved in writing the letter from the Bishop in the article? If so, I don't recommend you let that person near documents with pastoral implications in the future w/o some remedial pastoral formation. 8/

9. I should have mentioned it earlier, but at some point the canons need to be amended to stop the use of psychiatric examinations against (trigger warning!) "whistleblowers" without more than episcopal hostility as a cause. 9/9

A post script: this practice is downright Soviet. See, e.g.,