An Anglican chaplain cleared to return to ministry after a seven-year battle says too many Church of England leaders belong to the “metropolitan elite” and have forsaken a Christian worldview.
In 2019, Bernard Randall was referred to Prevent (the UK’s counter-radicalisation programme, part of the Government’s wider counterterrorism strategy), treated as a safeguarding risk, and effectively shut out of ministry for preaching a sermon rooted in CofE doctrine.
Now, he has secured a legal settlement with the school he preached in, Trent College, Derbyshire. Speaking to en, Randall said: “The difficulty that the Church of England seems to have, and I suspect it’s not unique to the Church of England, is that too many of the leadership really belong to, or would like to belong to, the metropolitan elite class.
