{"id":640454,"date":"2025-12-18T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640454\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:16:18","slug":"presbyterian-church-leadership-questioned-by-members-during-general-assembly-as-moderator-speaks-of-deep-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640454\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian Church leadership questioned by members during General Assembly as Moderator speaks of \u2018deep shame\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This is a justice issue&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trevor Morrow, retired, now speaking.<br \/>&#8220;I think it is inconceivable that under our watch the vulnerable were not safe,&#8221; he says.<br \/>&#8220;This is a justice issue, specifically for the weak, the vulnerable and the powerless. Of course we want to know that action is taken, that is justice.<br \/>&#8220;We should be held accountable. Reformed theology teaches a corporate responsibility is a greater reality than the individual modern Western world would have us believe.<br \/>&#8220;This is not a gathering of individuals, it is a body. We are coroprately responsible and true repentance means turning around from the direction we are going and have been going.<br \/>&#8220;As a church, we need to put in place structures and patterns that reflect a different culture. A justice that prioritises the weak, vulnerable and the powerless.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is a justice issue&#8221; Trevor Morrow, retired, now speaking.&#8220;I think it is inconceivable that under our watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6722,1144,17674,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christopher-leebody","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-presbyterian-church","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115741235310931691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}