The following is a comment from Fr. Steve Dundas on the ++Woodall departure from the CEC. I decided to move this comment to the front of the blog.
(comment from padresteve)
I wanted to ignore this and have for about a week, as I said before I don’t come to this site on a regular basis. I believe that the person that wrote the comment above “therestofthestorynow” is Bishop Woodall. He is the only person that I spoke to about this in such detail. To be sure the PTSD was a big part and I tried to be gentle with him as I left the CEC. However the real lack of pastoral care by him and former CEC bishops contributed to my crisis and collapse because because my faith community had for all intents and purposes for years abandoned me. Abandonment is one of the key factors that make PTSD worse and when it is the faith community that does this it can create exactly what happened to me.
An interesting note. Abp Woodall was deposed on 26 January for attempting to remove the CEC Military Chaplains from the CEC to join the ACNA Missionary Diocese of All Saints where he plans to be the endorsing agent. He was attempting to do this secretly but one of the senior CEC military chaplains reported it to Abp Bates. Woodall has tried to spin the situation to make it look like he resigned in an e-mail that I was copied in.
When other CEC Bishops with some of their churches Woodall criticized them, now the shoe is on the other foot.
Simply put when I left I was clear on why I did and I did not attempt to take anyone else with me. I attempted to remain friends with Abp Woodall but he has shown that he has no honor.
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February 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm
aninformer
If I were an ICCEC chaplain, before I follow Abp Woodall anywhere, I’d call the official endorsing Bishop for the ACNA because something isn’t right here. (www.anglicanchaplains.org) The ACNA has made a big deal over the last year about the growth of their chaplains and how CANA and the REC are coming together as a single chaplains agency in the ACNA. Also, I just heard Abp Duncan mention the ACNA endorsing office at Anglican1000. Bishop Jones is the Suffragan for Chaplaincies to Abp Duncan and was just appointed last year. Seriously, is there any way that the ACNA would allow deposed CEC Bishop Woodall into their ranks to serve as an endorser? I seriously doubt that and it would be a shame for a chaplain to end up losing his CEC endorsement by following Woodall to nowhere and then not be endorsed by the actual endorsers for the ACNA.
February 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm
frjim123
Steve Dundas+ is correct. Doug Woodall has no honor and is not to be trusted.
When I left the ICCEC over substantive issues, he sent me an email that has become legendary in its content. To leave the ICCEC was to violate a vow to God. Now we discover that he was plotting to leave the ICCEC, try to take his chaplains with him, and sneak into ACNA clandestinely. This is the height of hypocrisy to me.
My story is one of many. Others in the military archdiocese and/or the ICCEC who left were berated, threatened, and disparaged by Doug Woodall. Most of us who left tried to be respectful of the ICCEC, express appreciation for our time with Doug and Pam, and move forward with our ministries in settings more agreeable to our situations and theologies. For him, it seemed personal.
In truth, I believe Doug believed the hype and propaganda of the ICCEC in its most unhealthy and ego-centric state. His Assembly of God background exposed him to the worst part of the Pentecostal / Charismatic movements. The emphasis on power, money, and authority went to his head in much the same way it does any of us. It took down the former Primate of the ICCEC and several other senior leaders. Vestments, symbols, and tithing are all instrumentalities that, when warped by the human ego, become prisons for both those consumed by their own inflated view of self and those in their flocks.
Let us be clear. Doug Woodall is not now in the ACNA. I am. Until the many issues of his abuse of power, ego-centricity, and anger find resolution in the healing virtues of pastoral care and direction, there is no place for him in our movement.
For while all of us are human and have feet of clay, Doug Woodall’s violation of trust so publicly disqualifies him for leadership in a movement like ours.
Prayers for him, Pam, and those who he has harmed both now and in the past.
-Jim+
September 19, 2011 at 4:09 am
shockedatwoodall
Fr Jim,
I remember well the unnecessary pain that you went through because of Woodall’s bad behavior. I think that saying he lacks honor sums it up rather nicely. It is too bad that something that is so easy to sum up isn’t so easy to recover from.
You are still in my prayers.
February 1, 2011 at 7:32 pm
ctkcec
Archbishop Woodall was NOT deposed. Such action would require an action of the House of Bishops. Fr Dundas is incorrect.
+ David Epps
Diocese of the Mid-South
September 19, 2011 at 4:14 am
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