Evangelical life stories that prove inspiring

SOULINFORMATION.ORG has fabulous resources about evangelical abuse in the Church of England and a massive trail of damaged or broken lives.

The website carries video resources - including a longer interactive debate entitled “The Ravi Scandal: Diane Langberg, Glen Scrivener & Steve Baughman on victims, accountability & power”. Ravi Zacharias worked alongside prominent Church of England evangelicals. But after his death an inquiry revealed a huge range of difficulties (sexual and/or financial) so Church of England evangelicals now have good reason to try erasing the name of Ravi Zacharias.

“The problem with pedestals” is a 3-4 minute subsection towards the end of the film, and it asks highly penetrating questions which will be deeply disturbing for evangelical bishops in the Church of England.

Why does the Church pathetically fail to challenge narcissistic male bullies in leadership positions?

Why does “the evangelical village” conceal clear evidence of bullying and abuse? Did evangelicals tolerate bullying by celebrity leaders who filled up pews and brought in money? Did business sometimes matter more than people in the final analysis?

The woefully poor state of adult and child safeguarding in the Anglican Church was exposed in 2022 reports on decades of atrocious abuse cover-up. A growing number of convinced Christians now seem less committed to supporting the institutional Church. Exploitation, bullying, harassment and sexual abuse have driven countless members from the Anglican Church.

High-profile sexual abuse scandals have attracted a lot of media attention, but has a lot of lower grade (or more mundane) ill-treatment of Church members been largely ignored?

I was ordained in 2017, but I now favour an informal midweek prayer and dinner meeting to the ritualistic rigmarole offered up in parish churches on Sundays. Will a phoenix