Truro rector resigns

A letter from the wardens and vestry of Truro Parish

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6 December 2019
 
Dear Truro Family & Friends,
 
Following on from last week’s announcement of Tory’s departure we have further information to share with you. 

Tory Baucum has submitted his resignation as Rector of Truro Anglican Church and has also renounced (resigned) his ordained ministry in the ACNA (Anglican Church of North America). Tory and Elizabeth intend to be received into the Roman Catholic Church sometime next year.
 
Concurrently, members of Truro’s staff have alleged grievances against Tory, the seriousness of which is such that (1) the vestry is conducting a formal investigation by an independent party to determine what occurred, and (2) the inquiry will take some time to complete. Tory has agreed to participate.
 
The parish meeting previously announced has been postponed.

The Wardens and Vestry of Truro Anglican Church

The vestry welcomes your questions. Please send them to the registrar, Betsy Perryman, at Betsy@TruroAnglican.com.
 
We ask for your prayers for Tory and his family, our staff, the wardens and the vestry, and all our congregation at this time.The Wardens and Vestry of Truro Anglican Church

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      • From my limited exposure to Baucom, he never really fit in to the ACNA. This is how he was able to make a deal with the Virginia TEC diocese. From his attempts at reconciliation with apostates, and now going to Rome…I’m not convinced he knows what apostasy, or the good news of Jesus, really is.

  2. The Roman Catholic Church will be much more accepting of his views than ACNA is. TEC Bishop Shannon Johnston, with whom Baucum reconciled, is pretty much where the RCC under Pope Francis is, theologically.

    • Hmmm…RCC you say. I thought he and Shannon Johnston were buddies and he was working on a direct connection to the Church of England before being slapped down by the ACNA bishop. Hope Truro stays strong although you never hear from any of the lay people.

    • It would be great if Shannon Johnston opposed strongly same-sex marriage, gender ideology and abortion, like Pope Francis, but I don`t think so. A liberal from a Catholic viewpoint might look quite conservative for an orthodox Anglican.

    • The RCC is where the TEC is theologically? What? The RCC has mandatory doctrine, outright prohibits divorce, remarriage homosexuality, woman priests and concilliarism. How is the fact that the pope makes some rather progressive statements in any way change the core nature of what the RCC is? I am confused so much by this comment.

  3. Just another good priest who realizes ACNA isn’t an arena where he can work with integrity…just my guess.

    • Did you leave ACNA? Sorry, that reads as a rhetorical question- not meant to be. I recall you writing articles 10 years ago (assuming the same Jim McNeely) and thought you were a priest in New England.

  4. So we’ve been going to Truro for six years now and I’m wondering if this has anything to do with him trying to push a certain politics from the pulpit.

    • What politics from the pulpit? Also, it would be informative to know of some of the things Truro does well. What programs did you like? How did they become a large church.

      • Politically your standard boilerplate tolerance/diversity stuff devoid of class struggle that characterizes Fairfax County high-earner privileged liberalism. Nothing special but stuff you can get from staying home and watching CNN and saving yourself the drive. Six or seven years going and nothing about sin, judgement, or anything like that, just feeling good or bad based on whatever the culture is saying at the time. Whatever. Who cares.

        The wife is active in the Church so I won’t get any further into it and cause her any trouble, lol.

        • Thanks. Always wonder why there isn’t more participation on the blogs from the larger ACNA churches. They drive the agenda but the rest of us don’t get much of a hint what type of churches they are.

        • Man, Lucas, you must attend a different Truro Anglican than me. If talking about sin in terms of more than “Don’t drink smoke or chew and don’t go out with girls who do” (i.e., personal piety and nothing else), then yes, Tory Baucum is guilty as charged.

    • He tried to push Justin Welby inspired “reconciliation” between ACNA and TEC, ignoring his own bishop and archbishop. I was expecting him perhaps to go back to TEC or join the Church of England. Now that he is joining the Roman Catholic Church I hope he will have more sense.

  6. I intended to listed to the episode of Anglican Ink addressing this, but it appears to have been pulled from YouTube and iTunes. That is extraordinarily rare.

    • Are you referring to an old episode, or is there a new (current- 555 or thereabouts) episode that has been removed?
      Oddly, in my “Anglican TV” page, 553 (transgender chicken) is missing from the playlist, but episode 551 (transgender God) is duplicated- so the list reads 554, 552, 551, 551….
      Is Youtube trying to tell us something?

      • Episode 555. I spotted it in my YouTube subscriptions list on Saturday, but I usually wait for the iTunes podcast version. It is no longer posted.

  7. Attended service this weekend; they let us know it was about complaints about staff abuse and mistreatment; nothing sexual or financial. A report should be released at some point.

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