I’ve been thinking a lot about safeguarding recently. If you’re involved in church circles it’s difficult to avoid – not least because church leaders being investigated for safeguarding is becoming a depressingly regular occurrence. The latest leader to fall is Mike Pilavachi, who is the co-founder of Soul Survivor. Commentators keep telling us we need […]
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Why Safeguarding doesn’t work – Podcast #47
Why does the church have so many problems with safeguarding? In this podcast we look at that question as well as thinking about values, and finishing with a final reflection from the Bible. Links Civil disobedience is coming A cost of living crisis made by our elites How the Church of England went woke (my […]
Safeguarding | The New Clerisy | Not being pessimistic – Podcast #7
In this podcast we look at safetyism and safeguarding and its relation to lockdown, the new expert clerisy, and how not to be pessimistic looking into the darkness. The New Clerisy article Podcast with Lenore Skenazy
A few thoughts about safeguarding
A couple of days ago, the organisation ThirtyOne:Eight released their review into what happened at Emmanuel Church Wimbledon and Jonathan Fletcher (see the report from the Independent Advisory Group for a shorter summary). This follows hard on the heels of the full report about Ravi Zacharias which was only released just over a month ago. […]