Justin Welby Resigns

Praise the Lord

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Thank you to all who joined my short livestream last night about the disappointing movie Conclave. I feel like I’m getting the hang of this unbelievably easy app except for all the little details like when the phone camera actually begins filming and how not to have the main frame that it captures be me leering with my eyes shut. Anyway, maybe practice will make adequate.

Today I am limping between so many opinions, as Elijah the Prophet, so unreasonably pointed out—there is the trouble about the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is this long UnHerd article, there is this person melting down, and there is the horrible fact of the eight residents of my household trying to share one car, may God have mercy on my soul.

…and the winner is Justin Welby! [Hat/Tip Jeff Walton]

The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned after a report found the Church of England covered up sexual abuse by a barrister.

The independent Makin review into John Smyth QC's abuse of children and young men was published last week.

Across five decades in three different countries and involving as many as 130 boys and young men in the UK and Africa, John Smyth QC is said to have subjected his victims to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks, permanently marking their lives. The report concluded he might have been brought to justice had Mr Welby formally reported it to police a decade ago.

In a resignation letter Justin Welby said: "Having sought the gracious permission of His Majesty The King, I have decided to resign.

Check back to Sky News for updates as they appear. I expect that people who know a lot more will weigh in, but I have three quick thoughts. First, this sort of thing is a tragic exposure of the hubristic and hypocritical rot of the sexual revolution, which is coming to a cataclysmic conclusion. Justin Welby has tried to play the game out of both sides of his mouth, to be “evangelical” and yet “joyfully” flirt with the LGBT agenda, letting it devour and destroy a church already in decline. Guess what, you can’t do that. Sexual Immorality is a sin, full stop. There aren’t some kinds that allow the human person to flourish and some that are destructive. By constantly fudging over the law of God, as if it applies only in some circumstances, the C of E, and Welby in particular, are reaping the whirlwind.

Second, this is even more of a catastrophe than it might be, because the Church of England, corporately, is not a place where people are able to go to find the gospel. Sure, some individual churches are probably doing ok, but it’s not like the British people have any clue about their Christian heritage or know where they can find forgiveness for their sins and the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit through the blood of Jesus on the cross.

And finally, Justin Welby should have resigned over the Prayers for Love and Faith catastrophe, and over being pro-gay marriage himself, and for all the gutting of the church that has occurred under his hand. If only he would actually take responsibility for the spiritual destruction of those in his cure. Is this a too little too late or be grateful for what we can get moment?

I have a smattering of little sketches gathering cyber dust in the bowels of my computer under the heading J&JW, as in Jesus and Justin Welby: How Anglican Elites Betrayed the Gospel and Fractured a Communion. Maybe it’s time to dust it off and have another go.

And now I have to go drive people around on account of there being only one car, as I said.