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JUNE NEWSLETTER
Those of you who have ever been involved working with or for a large organisation will know that if the top people are a bit iffy then there will be problems. When your organisation has been working well with good leaders then the new leader had better be, at the least, okay. Alas, back in 2017, in our Anglican (Episcopalian) church we'd just lost our excellent vicar. Adjusting to the new vicar our bishop had recommended proved impossible. She couldn't find her way round our prayer book to give a proper service, was dirty, rude, unkind and a real demon from hell! The archbishop, Philip, and our bishop, Stephen, refused to hear our genuine complaints, both written and verbal, and a full church became a rapidly emptying one as our Christian outreach collapsed. Along with a core of parishioners I stuck my neck out to try to get Andrea McDougall to work with us and save St Luke's instead of screaming that St Luke’s was hers - 'My church. My way'. Most people gave up and left, I stayed to protect our heritage church building from Andrea's attempts to remove 150 year old pews, the pulpit, and do structural damage. My charming vicar didn’t like that and on February 21st. 2019, during the exchange of peace in our 10.30 a.m. service, she sent her favourite bully boy, David Sutton, dashing down the central aisle to grab me and bash me up whilst she hurried down the side aisle to open the big porch door, then hustle me out of the church, and ban me from my church because I had attacked Sutton!!! Despite angry and furious parishioners who saw the attack bishop Steven allowed Andrea to ban me. In hospital that night the doctor and nurses registered a heart misbeat, a fibrillation, which has now grown into a malfunctioning misbeating heart. The top chambers can't pump blood properly so I am flat on my back trying to adjust to blood thinners and antibiotics in the hope that we can keep things going. My medical records pre the attack show no heart problems at all. I sent a letter to our new bishop, Anne, telling her I blamed her vicar Andrea McDougall for my damaged heart and would like an apology. Nearly two weeks later and still no response. I am not the only Anglican to be so disheartened by the thoroughly unchristian behaviour of our clergy.
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Please browse my website and follow the progress of our writers' co-operative experiment with digital publishing. Or just enjoy following the ups and downs of a writer's life. Do you enjoy reading historical novels? Check out mine. I cover Mediaeval and Edo period Japan, the 17thC in Britain, and the Victorian 19thC around the world. Just click on a title cover to read about them. Click again to buy one.
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