Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns Over Covering Up of Child Sexual Abuse

The Anglican Church’s slow descent into apostasy is not a saga of overnight rebellion but a long, deliberate erosion of faithfulness, a surrender of truth brick by brick. It began as a hairline fracture, with subtle compromises on the sufficiency of Scripture, but today it stands as a cathedral of worldly concession, hollowed out by decades of rot.

Once the steward of a gospel that shook empires, the Anglican Church now preaches the gospel of niceness, adorned with rainbow flags and decorated with the approval of the very Hell on Earth it was called to confront.

How did it happen? The timeline is clear. The rejection of biblical inerrancy led to the rejection of biblical authority, and once that was gone, morality became whatever the culture demanded.

Divorce? No problem.

Women in the pulpit? Of course.

Same-sex relationships? Naturally.

Each concession was cloaked in the language of "love" and "progress," but it was nothing more than the cowardice of a church terrified of being unpopular. The embrace of such subjective morality can in no way be described as a triumph of compassion, it was a confession of unbelief. And with no anchor in the Word of God, the Anglican Church drifted into the abyss.

Enter Justin Welby, the very embodiment of what happens when a church leader exchanges the obedience to God for the precepts of men. Elevated to Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013, Welby wasted no time proving himself a man of the times. His tenure has been a masterclass in the art of theological doublespeak, where one can simultaneously claim allegiance to Scripture while championing practices Scripture explicitly condemns.

Welby affirmed homosexual relationships with the kind of equivocating language that leaves room for plausible deniability, yet his actions spoke volumes. Under Welby, the Church of England “blessed” this sin while pretending to bless sinners. His support for same-sex “blessings” and his refusal to condemn sexual immorality outright revealed a man more interested in applause than truth.

When you abandon God’s Word, you abandon God’s standards. And clearly, when you abandon God’s standards, chaos reigns. Without Scripture as the objective moral compass, what’s left? Feelings? Consensus? Convenience?

The Anglican Church’s sexual ethic under Welby became a carnival of contradictions, where sin was rebranded as “love” and holiness as “bigotry.” And if sin is no longer sin, what motivation is there to call out sexual abuse? If same-sex relationships can be blessed, why not cover up other "indiscretions"? If morality is a matter of personal or cultural interpretation, why should leaders be held accountable for moral failures?

This brings us to the John Smyth scandal, the dark stain on Welby’s legacy that finally forced his resignation. Smyth’s abuse—systematic, horrific, and known to church leaders—should have been exposed and eradicated the moment it was discovered. But under Welby’s leadership, it festered.