No room for defensiveness
published: Wednesday | July 19, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

AS ONE who benefited immensely from the ministry of the Church at 6 Dayton Avenue in my teenage years (some 30 years ago), I grieve at the manner in which the Church's leadership acted recently.

Sin in the church is not new, but there is simply no room in the church of God for quiet internal damage-control or worse, defensiveness, in matters of this magnitude. Berating whistleblowers and a media salivating over another church scandal does not honour the Lord.

As a Christian, I feel the pain of Dayton and how I wish that Dayton would feel the pain for the victim, and the Lord's name which has been dishonoured. Surely then they would have responded with greater humility and contrition.

I am, etc.,

DOUGLAS SIMPSON

gsj@anbell.net)

Kingston 8