Tag: Clergy Sexual Misconduct
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How Are We to Respond to Clergy Sexual Misconduct?
How should the Orthodox Church respond to the growing awareness of the harm caused by clergy sexual misconduct? I’m not asking here about policing misconduct but rather how are we to understand misconduct and what, if anything, can we do to lower its likelihood? In what follows, in this post I sketch out a brief…
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Looking At the Numbers: Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Like the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in this country is drawing candidates for ordination from a culture in which sexual victimization is common. Does this concern anyone?