Church of England (Diocese of Oxford) and Social Media

 Oxford Diocese and Social Media.

I'm watching the current situation regarding social media with bemusement. 

I understand that the Church of England and Anglican Church, for Example the Diocese of St. Davids in Wales, keep falling foul of social media, by bad posting or by the fact that silenced victims are using social media to speak up, and there are armies of silenced and wronged victims left hurting, so what better way for victims and their advocates to speak up than in a community such as social media? If the Diocese of Oxford don't like the truth staring them in the face on social media, what better way to show Christianity than to gracefully step back rather than make a spectacle of themselves by blocking their own clergy or posting catty backhanded posts supposedly including Christian references? The poor old C of E never really made it into this century, possibly not the last either.

Let us never forget the weasel words 'Rascally Voices' used as an attempt to defend the indefensible in the C of E, and use this as a guide to how the C of E respond to criticism. I get this feeling that the C of E are becoming anxious about the increasing voice against their misconducts and are extending their hypocritical self-rightous undermining of those they hurt, to social media, while, as they do to letters, phonecalls emails and correspondence from their victims and the advocates, they are trying to block them on social media and undermine and traduce them while misusing the Bible to appear righteous. The C of E's clunky use of social media was already a pain, with Justin Welby's curated account trotting out political interference and hypocrisy and pretences of compassion which harm the C of E's victims, and the C of E's own twitter appearing to have a number of authors offering the usual bland, Maxist or hypoctical views of the outdated and failing church. The Anglican Bishop of St. Davids showed just how severely the Anglican Church can abuse social media, with a curated account sending out hundreds of nasty tweets and replies per day.

This is what I, as an observer, know about the Diocese of Oxford:

• The Bishop has been accused of serious misconduct in relation to a rape case and his failure to act appropriately, no action has been taken.
• An extreme amount of money, akin to that used by Archbishop Welby and Bishop Dakin to cover up in the Jersey and Winchester case and hide their misconduct, has been used by the Diocese of Oxford to publicly destroy the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, a kind of mirror case in a way, rather than real grievances and safeguarding issues being resolved in private and properly as a Christian church should have. As a result, the Dean and his family have been put at risk of harm.
• The Bishop and Diocese of Oxford blocked an abuse victim's email after being contacted by them.
• A conflicted QC with a position in the Oxford Diocese took part in whitewashing the Winchester and Jersey case. 
• The Diocese of Oxford have made headlines by blocking their own Canon, and have added to that by sending out self-righteous and judgemental tweets.
• I understand that there is a lot more and worse than what I write, from what others are telling me. I think it's time for a visitation, but 'Pet' Dioceses such as Winchester and Oxford, where the money is, don't tend to get visitations.

The Diocese of Oxford need to focus inwards and look at their own safeguarding, Christianity and humanity issues rather than typical C of E judgements over others. The Diocese of Oxford is one of what I call 'The Problem Dioceses'. Oxford, Winchester, Sheffield, etc, I'm sure everyone gets that, ordination of senior clergy is on a favour and handshake basis and doesn't lead to a healthy diocese, if such a thing exists, it leads to clergy on the ground suffering, safeguarding issues, a toxic environment, an expensive load of NDA's, resignations, fights spilling over into the public domain, terrible excuses being made for the problems being made a public issue, etc etc.

I don't know the Canon who was blocked, but she has the same surname as the psychopathic safeguarding lead who helped to kill the Winchester and Jersey victim and harm and anguish many others, and I know she's part of the toxic church times, but nonetheless, it reflects badly on the Oxford Diocese for being petty, if they don't like their own Canon, rather than make a spectacle of themselves, they could mute her and/or speak to her in person, maybe before taking any action to break communication with her on social media, just as the Bishop of St. Davids should have aired her concerns about the government in person or via an exchange of letters, and just as the Oxford Christ Church, Winchester and Sheffield matters could have been dealt with in private. If the Church of England don't like public shaming on social media, they need to stop and think about their own use of the media, they are in no position to judge anyone, the Archbishop's media tirades are offensive and hypocritical but action against him is never taken despite relentless complaints and thousands upon thousands of comments by the general public condeming him, he, like the C of E in general, ignore and block feedback and criticism. 

The C of E crusade against social media warriors will reflect badly on them, and will backfire, it isn't God's Work to be hypocritical as they are being, and they need to focus on their own physical and spiritual mess rather than trying unsuccessfully to remove the small  and only voice of the silenced thousands. 

Just a footnote, apologies for those who missed this, the Canon from Christ Church Oxford, who also wurbles in the toxic Church Times, probably caused some upset by wurbling about Oxford and Winchester or other things the C of E don't want anyone wurbling about. You know how the plump old Anglicans wurble, the C of E is fussy about what they wurble about.