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Ed Shaw

Ed Shaw is the co-chair of the Church of England Evangelical Council, the Pastor of Emmanuel City Centre in Bristol, and the ministry director at www.livingout.org

How to respond well to scandal and crisis

21 December 2021But it is also a very natural one: we can’t imagine our church ever being the subject of an investigative podcast or an independent safeguarding review. The problem is that the same would have been true for many members of Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill, Steve Timmis’ Crowded House or Jonathan Fletcher’s Emmanuel, Wimbledon. But all three were evangelical church leaders who used their power in abusive ways – despite being highly regarded in evangelical circles and loved by their own…

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