Welby aide quits over the Church’s liberal teachings
AN ADVISER to the Archbishop of Canterbury has quit in protest over the Church of England’s liberal teaching.
Lorna Ashworth, a conservative evangelical who sat on the Archbishop’s Council, said the CofE had become ‘revisionist’ and ‘heretical’. She also resigned from the General Synod.
Mother-of-three Mrs Ashworth, 47, is disappointed by CofE moves to condemn those who try to persuade gay people to become heterosexuals, and by its deepening accommodation of the transgender lobby.
She said: ‘In light of this revisionist agenda and the heretical teaching … I am no longer willing to sit around the table, pretending we, as a governing body of the Church of England, are having legitimate conversations about mission.’ Mrs Ashworth added that she and many others ‘long for clear and courageous biblical leadership’.