I’ve just spotted something very concerning on the Archbishop Cranmer blog. Jonathan Fletcher had an official role at the commissioning service for Andy Lines in September 2018, at Emmanuel Church, and Robin Weekes, Emmanuel’s vicar, was the preacher. Fletcher interviewed Lines during the service. But Fletcher’s PTO was withdrawn due to safeguarding concerns in late 2017, and it’s inconceivable that Weekes didn’t know about this (the concerns were made to Emmanuel Church in early 2017). So why did Weekes allow Fletcher to participate?
It all goes back to Smyth and the Iwerne camp. This is a replica of what went on there.
I wonder if there’s a lot of covering going on here, covering backs and covering up. The way that things have been revealed over the last week starting with ‘some spiritual abuse’ which Jonathan Fletcher intimated was an inevitable accusation for someone who has been a minister for some time to the admission of far worse by Jonathan Fletcher and the admission by Vaughan Roberts that there are ‘some worse’ examples of abuse than the ones mentioned at the EMA seminar. If things can move from one to the other in one week it is hard not to wonder what else there is that has not been revealed yet for the sake of.damage control. It looks like every response is being reluctantly addressed as the press discover more, the evangelicals involved should be way ahead of the press bringing it all out into the light.
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[…] Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon in south-west London where Fletcher was vicar from 1982 to 2012, detailed some of his psychological and physical abuses against younger men who had looked up to him as […]
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EMA=Evangelical Ministry Assembly
I’ve just spotted something very concerning on the Archbishop Cranmer blog. Jonathan Fletcher had an official role at the commissioning service for Andy Lines in September 2018, at Emmanuel Church, and Robin Weekes, Emmanuel’s vicar, was the preacher. Fletcher interviewed Lines during the service. But Fletcher’s PTO was withdrawn due to safeguarding concerns in late 2017, and it’s inconceivable that Weekes didn’t know about this (the concerns were made to Emmanuel Church in early 2017). So why did Weekes allow Fletcher to participate?
It all goes back to Smyth and the Iwerne camp. This is a replica of what went on there.
I wonder if there’s a lot of covering going on here, covering backs and covering up. The way that things have been revealed over the last week starting with ‘some spiritual abuse’ which Jonathan Fletcher intimated was an inevitable accusation for someone who has been a minister for some time to the admission of far worse by Jonathan Fletcher and the admission by Vaughan Roberts that there are ‘some worse’ examples of abuse than the ones mentioned at the EMA seminar. If things can move from one to the other in one week it is hard not to wonder what else there is that has not been revealed yet for the sake of.damage control. It looks like every response is being reluctantly addressed as the press discover more, the evangelicals involved should be way ahead of the press bringing it all out into the light.
[…] massages as part of his discipling (not discipline) of them. His behaviour is described in a public statement to a recent meeting of the Evangelical Ministry Assembly in […]
[…] and nude massages as part of his discipling (not discipline) of them. His behaviour is described in a public statement to a recent meeting of the Evangelical Ministry Assembly in […]
[…] Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon in south-west London where Fletcher was vicar from 1982 to 2012, detailed some of his psychological and physical abuses against younger men who had looked up to him as […]
[…] has Fletcher’s individual role in the PT got to do with Emmanuel Church, which first received reports of his abuses in early 2017 and made a safeguarding report? This went to Southwark Diocese in […]