In the wake of its devastating abuse crises, the Church of England has poured money and effort into massively boosting its safeguarding apparatus. But a recent independent audit has warned the safeguarding team is being swamped with complaints and disputes which are nothing to do with children or vulnerable adults, and so should be handled as HR matters and not investigated as safeguarding concerns. Why are churches and Christian organisation consistently not good at resolving disputes and grievances between colleagues? Why do we find it so hard to learn from secular wisdom and well-established HR best practice? What is the issue with having my line manager also be my pastor or prayer partner? And is there any wisdom in Scripture which might help us do better as brothers and sisters in working well together?
In each episode of Matters of Life and Death, brought to you by Premier Unbelievable?, John Wyatt and his son Tim discuss issues in healthcare, ethics, technology, science, faith and more. John is a doctor, professor of ethics, and writer and speaker on many of these topics, while Tim is a religion and social affairs journalist. We talk about how Christians can better engage with a particular question of life, death or something else in between.
In the wake of its devastating abuse crises, the Church of England has poured money and effort into massively boosting its safeguarding apparatus. But a recent independent audit has warned the safeguarding team is being swamped with complaints and disputes which are nothing to do with children or vulnerable adults, and so should be handled as HR matters and not investigated as safeguarding concerns. Why are churches and Christian organisation consistently not good at resolving disputes and grievances between colleagues? Why do we find it so hard to learn from secular wisdom and well-established HR best practice? What is the issue with having my line manager also be my pastor or prayer partner? And is there any wisdom in Scripture which might help us do better as brothers and sisters in working well together?
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