Despite repeated calls to address the issue, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. remains in denial about alcoholism and addiction among its leaders, according to a recent report to the General Convention.
The report was commissioned shortly after the 2015 conviction of former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Heather Cook, for the death of a 41-year-old father in a drunken hit-and-run incident.
Among several recommendations to leaders of the 1.7 million-member Church, the report calls for “actions that promote a significant cultural shift in the Episcopal Church.”
“These recommendations address the problem of impaired leaders, but they also diagnose and suggest treatment for an impaired system that maintains denial and helplessness toward addiction, mental illness, and physical disease,” the Commission on Impairment and Leadership, which produced the report, said.
“In spite of the efforts over the last four decades by individual dioceses and the General Convention to…
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