Comments on: More porky pies from the Pinocchio Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell

By: james hardy

james hardy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:09:33 +0000

Email to Archbishop Cottrell sent 3.1.25

Dear Archbishop Cottrell (acting Archbishop of Canterbury)

I was an Anglican student on a 2015-2016 New Wine ministry training programme. I observed how a New Wine representative informally shared their extreme alarm about Mike Pilavachi’s physical interaction with interns at recent New Wine events. My firm impression was of concern about homoerotic grooming. I reported this to the ongoing ‘Pilavachi-New Wine’ inquiry led by Fiona Scolding KC. But this witness evidence does not appear in a draft I have seen of her final report.

Furthermore, I have also reported evidence of savage bullying and harassment of 2015-2016 New Wine students, which points to a toxic culture of abuse and its cover up at New Wine. My evidence on this matter does not appear in the final inquiry report draft. If my witness evidence of New Wine student abuse is not addressed, or there is no reference to 2015-2016 concern about Pilavachi’s behaviour at New Wine events, I will be asking you to address areas where the Pilavachi-New Wine inquiry appears incomplete.

I am asking Bishop Joanne Grenfell to relay this message to you.

Your Sincerely

James Hardy

By: james

james — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:57:01 +0000

Cottrell vows to stay (Times, p11 3.2.25). What a sick joke we have as-‘acting’-Archbishop of Canterbury!

By: Angus J

Angus J — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:35:36 +0000

The first instance that I can remember of a substantiated allegation of lying by Mr Cottrell was when, as Bishop of Chelmsford, he addressed a group of evangelical clergy from his diocese and told them that if they didn’t like the direction that the Church of England was going in with regard to the acceptance of same-sex relationships, they could leave. When this was recounted afterwards by several of those clergy, he denied saying any such thing. But ‘by the mouths of several witnesses you will know the truth’.

By: janet varty

janet varty — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:49:34 +0000

Can anyone tell me what you do when a CDM has been lodged and then the Diocese doesn’t keep to its own timeline and stops communicating with you?

By: james

james — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:20:15 +0000

I have asked Bishop Grenfell to share my concern with Arcbishop Cottrell about cover up of Anglican student ill-treatment by New Wine. I was stunned during training in 2015-2016 when a New Wine representative informally shared concern and alarm about Canon Mike Pilavachi. They appeared very alarmed about the physical interaction of Piulavachi with interns at recent New Wine events. Did lots of Church, Soul Survivor or New Wine staff have a very clear idea of something incredibly unhealthy being present or concealed? Yet my witness testimony on this has not been documented in a draft I have seen of the Pilavachi-New Wine report. Neither has wider evidence I presented been documented, of a toxic culture at New Wine where sinister or sadistic student ill-treatment was tolerated and covered up. I noted how a professor, a senior teacher, a medic and a businessman were alarmed at how innocent people felt attacked, and their relationships unfairly maligned.

By: Paul Needle

Paul Needle — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:59:12 +0000

Your detailed reasoning is compelling. ABY has shown himself to be inconsistent and evasive. He is not up to the job and I imagine that the petition for his removal may grow rapidly.
Whether he goes or stays now the fact is that or national church is fatally wounded. As a former communications adviser I am amazed at the handling of recent events.
It is obvious that with this media momentum General Synod will have intense coverage which will further destabilise the church and harm its future.
Of course if Cotterell goes now it will require a big reshuffle but it would also demonstrate that the Archbishops Council (also a wounded stag) must do something more radical than oversee the semblance of democracy in Synod and the wider church.

By: Hugh Sinclair

Hugh Sinclair — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:25:30 +0000

In centuries the Church has not had a Reformer like Gavin Drake, speaking truth to power with enormous courage and the forensic skills of the magnificent Mr Beer.

We have as acting Archbishop of Canterbury a man who couldn’t tell the truth to save another’s life.

Cottrell is the sex offender’s friend. He promoted Tudor twice, each time installing him
As a Canon. And as Gavin Drake has shown, Cottrell has a habit of victim-blaming. But that is what the Church does in my experience (of reporting proven fraud at Chartres’ Housing Association, NIHHA: shoot the messenger was the policy hastily elucidated by Chartres’ crony, Gillean Craig. Note Caroline and Gillean, long ensconced in the haven of The Church Times.And, I digress, wasn’t it funny to see Gillean as tv reviewer plug Father Ted plugging Father Gillean! Aha.

Why is the clergy afflicted with corporate lockjaw over Cottrell? ‘Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil?’ Does Cottrell impose a Trappist Oath of Silence? Or is there a Climate of Fear infecting the Church? Yesterday the Archdeacon of Liverpool ducked a question on WATO about Cottrell’s future. Does she regard herself as having to play by the rules of the male citadel she has infiltrated? Why are women clerics, bar one, silent on Cottrell in his role as the abuser’s protector?

Remember the Rev. Paul Park.