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The multidirectional momentum surrounding the coming governance meetings demonstrates the church’s persistently competing visions of who should decide how clergy misconduct issues are handled, even as it prepares to try its primate.

South Carolina Calls for Greater Transparency in ACNA - The Living Church The diocese calls for the release of documents related to the Stewart Ruch trial as the church's fraught process for revising Title IV comes to a vote.

Given the numerous pretrial motions, Bishop Ashey expressed uncertainty that Wood’s trial would be concluded by the year’s end and said “a good chance” existed that Wood will be exonerated, characterizing the allegations as coming from church staff who “felt aggrieved by the manner in which they were terminated as employees.”

Hearings to Begin in ACNA Primate’s Trial - The Living Church A church court will hold hearings this week on motions in preparation for Archbishop Steve Wood’s July trial, including a request that it be closed to the public.

He has been accused of sexual harassment, bullying and plagiarism and faces three church charges: alleged violation of ordination vows, conduct giving cause for “scandal or offense” and sexual immorality.

Church trial date set for ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood (RNS) — Wood has filed a motion to dismiss the case, and the church court will hear arguments on that motion in May.

Somewhere along the way, I came to believe that what my priests and bishops thought of me was what God thought of me. When they approved of me, I felt safe. When they were displeased, I experienced it as being wrong before God.

What My Leaders Told Me — ACNAtoo I absorbed some unhealthy ideas in my ACNA experience, through sermons, pastoral conversations, community pressure, and my own deep desire to be seen as faithful. I was not naive or weak for believing them. There were good and true and beautiful ideas alongside the unhealthy ones. And there were rea