The Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion are in uncharted waters after the voluntary resignation Tuesday (Nov. 12) of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
Welby quit just five days after he vowed that he would not resign, while apologizing for his part in the Church of England’s failure to deal with the serial abuser John Smyth.
Smyth, a Christian and a barrister, first ran activities for boys at a prestigious English private school, Winchester College, then boys’ camps in England before running similar outfits in Zimbabwe and Africa. The results of an independent investigation, called the Makin Review, published on Thursday revealed that various people in the Church of England were aware of Smyth’s savage beatings of boys.
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