When Fiction Seems to Predict Fact

The Dancing Priest novels seem to be back in the fiction-becomes-fact business. 

Last week, after saying he would not resign, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby did, in fact, resign. This followed the release of the Makin Report, which documented the failings of the Church of England (COE) in a cover-up of an abuse scandal. The scandal went back to the 1980s when a barrister named John Smyth abused young teens at COE church camps, slipped out of England when it appeared the law was onto him, and went on to victimize more boys in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

 

Welby’s sin: he learned about the abuse in 2013 but failed to report it to authorities. Smyth could have been brought to justice at that time; he died in 2018.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.

Photograph by Ruth Gledhill via Unsplash. Used with permission.

 

Some Monday Readings

 

The Ed Tech Revolution Has Failed – Jared Cooney Horvath at After Babel.

 

The Books You Come Back To – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

The Last Words of Alexei Navalny – Douglas Murray at The Free Press.

 

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” short story by Ambrose Bierce – The Imaginative Conservative.