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  • The Cover-up Culture of St Helen’s Bishopsgate 

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    The publication of the Makin Review has renewed concerns about conservative evangelical leadership in Britain. It showed that John Smyth’s abuse was covered up for decades by leaders who thought secrecy was necessary to protect the work of God: The result of their actions was that Smyth was quietly banished to Africa, where his abuse…

  • St Ebbe’s and the Smyth Scandal: An Inadequate Response

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    I’m a former staff member of Iwerne Holidays, the now-defunct summer camps at the centre of the John Smyth abuse scandal. In a recent interview, the Bishop of Winchester said “That whole world of those camps was fairly enclosed, self-referential and not a world that I ever belonged to. … How those networks function is…