Category Archives: Anglican Church

To our friends: why have we resorted to a letter and the website www.churchdispute.com to seek your help?

To our friends: why have we resorted to a letter and the website www.churchdispute.com to seek your help?      Some of our friends wonder why we have written and placed articles on the website www.churchdispute.com and then written to them asking them to read these articles. There are many reasons, and we, Pippa and Drew, hope

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Our lives are shattered and now we are to be sued!

Our lives are shattered and now we are to be sued! By Pippa Over a year ago, our lives were shattered by the abuse of process by the PSU and their defamatory statements made at the parish church. This announcement was necessary because of the gossip stimulated by the defamatory email sent by Complainant 1

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Shooting the messenger: now Complainant 1 is threatening to sue me

Shooting the messenger: now Complainant 1 is threatening to sue me By Louise Greentree[1] Late last week I received a letter by email from a lawyer for Complainant 1 stating that his client took exception to the content of some of the articles I have posted about and on behalf of Drew and Pippa concerning

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Is buying a lost child an ice-cream child abuse? Is doing your job child abuse? Have we gone too far in labelling actions as child abuse? Part 1

Imagine this scenario: You are shopping in one of the large shopping centres – Westfield’s at Bondi Junction for you Sydneysiders; Chadstone for those in Melbourne. Each city of any size in Australia has at least one. It is crowded and noisy: the sound of children’s voices form the shrill top note of the hubbub

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Open Letter to the members of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia Sydney Diocese Setting the Boundaries on Church Discipline

Dear Tribunal Members and other Readers – This is an open letter about the diocesan abuse of boundaries. Not boundaries of touch, but the boundaries that honest, just and fair process requires and which those who were responsible for the drafting and administration of the Discipline Ordinance 2006 Sydney Diocese (and its predecessor the Church

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How I became involved in Anglican Church parish conflicts

Welcome readers of this new blog about parish conflicts in Christian churches, in particular the Anglican Church Sydney diocese. How I became involved in Anglican Church parish conflicts Back in the 1990’s I witnessed the destructive effect of parish conflicts, one in the Melbourne parish of Vermont and another in the Sydney parish of Pymble.

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