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  • A Scandal Without an Apology

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    This is a completely updated version of a previously published article. The Makin Review, which was published in November 2024, showed that many Christian leaders failed to act rightly in response to John Smyth’s abuse of boys and young men. Smyth’s criminal misconduct is summarised in the review as follows: “John Smyth was an appalling…

  • 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…