I remember one afternoon when there were meringues for tea. He was a headmaster, and we liked it that way, since headmasters were one of the only things we really understood. It built high-walled ghettos, from which the cultists would emerge solely for the purposes of evangelism, lectures, and rugby, and to which they would retreat at nightfall. I was involved in the Iwerne camps for several years from Summer 1982, as a Senior Camper (general dogsbody) for a year, and then as an Officer. He has published books on both these issues and is at present particularly interested in understanding how power works at every level in the Church. In 1971, at the end of my last term as an undergraduate, I was again offered the chance to attend a VPS camp during the summer vacation. S breast that with my Rector writingto reprimand me for not following visual clues I cannot see given by stewards, writes reprimanding me for telling stewards I am cannot see and would they speak instead of using visual signals, all whilst failing to follow advice from national safeguarding about a written agreement and writing to tell me I must not show the agreement to my churchwarden. One thing that intrigues me is how the other members of the Christian Union knew youd been to Westminster School? Walled up behind my own Iwerne reception room were, amongst other things (some tawdry, some glorious),The Tibetan Book of the Dead,some proscribed girlfriends, a taste for animism, and theLiturgy of St. John Chrysostom. If you pronounced it audibly you had to stuff another MM in, and so on until it became absurd. When muscular Christians taught that the flesh is nothing and the spirit is everything, being flogged was one of the ways theyd learned this, or learned to wish devoutly that it were true. The Revd The Hon David Fletcher has died aged 89 following a four-year battle with cancer. Senior Campers worked extremely hard doing various daily chores. There are now things we will never know, that we deserved to know. Lists of those who knew were given to the Church of England and the National Safeguarding Team almost five years ago, yet, not one has faced any sanction. Officers, at least in Cambridge, were expected to attend a weekly prayer meeting during term time, at which intelligence from the various camp schools was exchanged. David Fletcher was born on May 31, 1994. I understand JF has referred to the hierarchical way in which he treated followers two were openly told they were D-listers. (v) Even before the last war there were increasing numbers of pupils who were from other faiths, notably Judaism, but mostly from none. I remember being astonished that a Christian musical that was popular amongst evangelicals in the 1970s could be called Come Together and even in the late 80s Emmanuel Northwood called their all age service by the same name. The brother of an abusive vicar who covered up attacks on young boys has died, prompting victims to claim the truth has died with him. I first attended in 1970. But I do think that the conduct of the retreat points to a certain recklessness and a cavalier attitude to the concerns and rights of other people, which can be encountered quite widely among conservative evangelicals with a public school background. In fact, he was a man who covered up horrific abuse for 40 years, and he must bear significant responsibility for Smyths continuing abuse in Africa. Iwerne has repeatedly made the national press between 2014-2021 as firstly, the suppressed report on Smyth has come to light evidencing the abusive extremes of spiritual discipline, and secondly, due to similar spiritual and physical abuse allegations against Jonathan Fletcher a key Iwerne clergyman and one of the most prominent If I were a newcomer, that would have put me off for good. Something had to be done to stop the fish rotting from the head. Janet, I took it then that pussy was short for pussy cat, as I do now. My prep school in the early 1950s was definitely about forming an officer class. John Smyth was the Chairman of the Iwerne Trust. Your help will either be gratefully accepted or politely declined. My wife asked me the other day whether I thought that Smyth was a simple sadist, or whether he actually believed the theological justifications that he mouthed. Unquestioning obedience to the upper echelons was expected. Love it. In other walks of life Ive not noticed people talking about school at all. David Fletcher weighs 185 lbs (83 kg). The walk was fine until we reached Striding Edge. There does seem a certain theme here. (a) is universal, (b) is the busybody tendency, (c) is the priggish tendency, and (d) is the revenge instinct, or else trying to pull people down to a lower level. Chubby bunnies was a popular game in my very non public school church youth group in the early 90s. It disturbed me that Christians who were apparently familiar with the area should show such disregard for private property. I hope you have good support? But youngsters from a family known to a church are probably sufficiently converted (in the real sense) already. WebToday David enjoys a well-earned reputation as one of the most creative and professional chefs in the world of food and entertaining. WebDr. Julian Mann is a former Church of England vicar, now an evangelical journalist based in the UK. Slay brings this same attentiveness to detail and focus on personable service to his work at Park Ave. I think this must have been the summer of 1970. His brother, Jonathan Fletcher, a leading evangelical vicar, was unmasked by The Telegraph in 2020 for abusing young men. words fail me! It heavily influenced the University Christian Unions (at least at Oxbridge) without openly declaring itself. He died of a heart attack in 2018 aged 77 at his home in Cape I recently watched one of the few videos of a Jonathan Fletcher sermon that remains live on the internet. But get them slightly wrong-footed lurching against one of those scrupulously erected internal walls and the panic rises. I breathe a sigh of relief frequently on that front. It may be important to know that Pussy was the (presumably informal) name of Bashs aunt, who had lived with his family during his upbringing. It stuck in my mind because it was so unusual to hear someones school referred to, even if they had only recently left it. Yes, indeed. I had just been converted to evangelical Christianity through the college Christian Union group, which was very vigorous and contained several associates of VPS (Varsity Public Schools), then the proper name for what was informally called Iwerne Minster or Iwerne (though the actual venue was the nearby Clayesmore School). Commitment to Christ was, obviously, a qualification for being on the staff (many of them were clergy or ordinands), but the public school boys who attended were just children attending a camp. After attending these camps, I was invited to join a few handpicked VPS men for several days at a kind of retreat (Im sure that wasnt what they called it!) We then drove round the block and back to the bus queue, where we screeched to a sudden halt. He was employed as overall leader of the Iwerne Camps from 1962-86. One could be born into any kind of family and will initially go along with it, but critical faculties will and should be employed later. Regarding the japes and such-like. These were the schools who sent into the world, as E. M. Forster said, boys with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and underdeveloped hearts. I met John Smyth myself only once probably in 1982. Real men got on with manly sports (to burn off their libido and to make them too tired for dodgy philosophising) and with the promulgation of the algorithms. But it was the late Rev David Fletcher (1932-2022), commandant (overall leader) of the Iwerne camps from the 1960s until he became rector of St Ebbes Oxford in 1986, who would have let the bulk of them in on the secret. I roundly rejected it, and quickly stopped playing the conservative evangelical game. He too knew how to use the tools of effortless public-school pressurising. Jonathan is one of the High Priests of Conservative Evangelicalism: Iwerne is his power base. Im not aware that there was an emphasis on, or indeed any teaching about, purity (if that refers to sexual behaviour). Its not my idea of fun. Its quite possible to be intelligent and highly educated and not see this. The strategic work of Iwerne reaching the few to reach the many was in peril. What I am trying to express through this long ramble, is that for impressionable, and I think in the 1960s, quite immature and naive young men, leaders with charisma had a profound and distorting influence. It still seems to me a strange preoccupation to have. Fun. Um, did pussy mean then what it means now? It confirms to me the foreignness of the VPS/public school mindset. To be tricked and hazed out of loyalty taking priority over self-respect spells disaster for respect for others. Mary, the idea that youre not allowed to tell people you cant see is. He is always interested in making contact with others who are concerned with these issues. If moving to another church were practical, I suspect things would be so different, youd be astonished. He graduated from Ohio University Of Osteo Medicine with his medical degree in 2004. Smyth, who was the chairman of the Iwerne Trust, carried out sadomasochistic, brutal beatings on dozens of young boys in his shed at his home in Winchester. And church is the one place abusers are protected, at least in my diocese and My parish. I dont want to deny the possibility of double meanings and concealed intentions, but Im sure Chubby bunnies (aka Fluffy bunnies) which was played as a silly party game (along with the chocolate game and the smartie on a flour pudding game) at the socially- and gender-mixed youth group of the south London Baptist church of my youth without anyone attaching any other meaning to bunny than they would have to the Easter bunny, or to bunny hops. I recall that David Penman, also a conservative evangelical, was in the UK in, I think, 1988. The cadet corps was abolished in my second year. Very sad, he barked, Now about those building plans. There was no getting him back to it. The process of redemption (if i could misappropriate the word) he describes through serving as a senior camper and attending a training houseparty was one that was offered to me as well, despite my even humbler background. I accept this account without cynicism. Although the movement, as I found it, was definitely evangelical and conversionist, it sounds broader than both Iwerne and other Christian groups. The VPS camps were not military style. Dr. Perhaps the obsession with school and class is around the church world? They were established by E.J.H. We all sniggered nervously and obediently, longing for an ear we could chew without emotional engagement. Despite everything that has emerged about him, and despite my own repudiation of his creed and his circle, I was moved. I sometimes bump into some of the ghettoized people. Theyll make a mess. And, like most people, we loved easy answers. These young men had been to elite boarding schools as boys from middle class homes. Humans were denigrated: they were wholly fallen. Nowadays we would call that gaslighting or DARVO (deny, and reverse victim and offender). Mystery and nuance were diabolical. Attitudes havent changed as much as people like to think ? John Smyth was the Chairman of the Iwerne Trust. Frank Buchmann, MRAs founder, of course, was greatly influenced by the Keswick movement, which also underlies the evangelicalism of the VPS. Bash was there, and he said I was to fill my mouth with meringue, and then say pussy. I tried it, with embarrassing results. Not in my parish or Diocese. We will see. Chubby Bunnies was certainly around in the mid-to-late 1980s when there was a contest at OICCU between a Northern engineer, the incoming principal of Wycliffe Hall and an Australian Bishop (I think the Bishop won with an improbable 30+ marshmallows). Nash, Smythe and their ilk were engaged in a desperate attempt to stem the tide. It was vital to the work that these trusted young officers helped Fletcher to ensure Smyth kept clear of alumni from Iwerne schools particularly at Oxbridge. As to Sussex, John Fulton and Asa Briggs (John Sparrows Sir Gas Bag) were anxious to create an entirely new kind of university, arguably in their own images: classless, humane and progressive. Extraordinarily, he warned one of his victims to stay away from Jonathan Fletcher who , he said, was dangerous. But at the first sign of unsoundness (perhaps a rumour that hed been a bit too cosy with a non-Christian girl, or had been seen on the London train with a Buddhist book, or if hed asked in exactly what sense the Iwerne gospel was Good News for homosexuals), out hed go into the outer darkness, where there was weeping and gnashing of Comprehensive school teeth. WebAngels' David Fletcher: Activated by Halos. The only thing that it was respectable to show enthusiasm about was drama. If Nash and his collaborators knew anything, it was that systems of class power and belief are undone as surely from inside as by any external force, and there were too many signs of that happening. He inherited from EJH Nash and then built up the whole edifice of Iwerne and its spiritual style. John Smyth was the Chairman of the Iwerne Trust. Stephen is a retired Anglican priest living at present in Cumbria. He is affiliated with numerous hospitals in California and more, including Memorial Hospital Of Gardena. WebToday David enjoys a well-earned reputation as one of the most creative and professional chefs in the world of food and entertaining. Interestingly, it was not necessarily totally determinative. Even if they had seen supernatural writing on the wall telling them to stop Smyth by going to the police, it is arguable that the Fletchers would have been able to talk them out of it. Liberal catholics dont tend to react in the same way to personalities. Of course, that was Sussex (possibly not a Iwerne recruiting ground), and I was female, and my school days had been in the USA. If someone could be used for the Work, he was flattered, favoured, and promoted. Two big members of the party leapt out of the car, seized P, and bundled him, pretending to protest, into the car, which then roared away, leaving the bus queue wondering if they had witnessed a kidnapping. It is the person who disguise s their malicious behaviour under cover of being helpful and insists on being helpful who can be grouped with the person who plays silly games. He inherited from EJH Nash and then built up the whole edifice of Iwerne and its spiritual style. I had lunch with one of them last week. At the revue at the end of the Iwerne camps we sang a sentimental song: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, at Iwerne Minister with [David] Fletcher & Co.It wont be long before we all pack up and go. Our wistfulness was misconceived. When I should have been handing out soup and blankets at a homeless shelter I was listening to fulminations about the Social Gospel (always capitalized, and apparently more deadly than rabies). Many complicit in similar crimes have been shielded by an omert culture. And third, there are those who left the ghetto, looked back at it in disgust, with regret at the wasted years, with bemusement and remorse because they were taken in, and with a huge sense of relief that they escaped. I met John Smyth myself only once probably in 1982. What I want to know of Smyth, Fletcher, my former and current Iwerne friends, and myself, is this: when you use personal pronouns, what do you mean? Sussex in the 1970s was much the most fashionable of the plate-glass institutions created under the aegis of Lionel Robbins. The religious outlook of that cadre would therefore depend upon that of their parents, to a greater extent than in other great schools, meaning that they stand a better chance of being more secular-minded. For such silencing instincts to predominate in a Christian context is profoundly wrong. After Cambridge I attended St. Helens Bishopsgate for a while. Iwerne, for anyone who doesnt know, runs Conservative Evangelical holidays for pupils (boys only in my day) from the top few public (i.e. Vaughan Roberts (himself a Iwerne man one of the best; an abiding friend for whom I have great respect) made a statement at the Evangelical Ministry Assembly about the Jonathan Fletcher allegations. Abusers do use this kind of light-hearted activity as part of grooming behaviour, to lower their victims resistance to more obviously dubious behaviour and then to outright abuse. What I remember much better were the leisure activities, several of which had slightly disturbing aspects. Jason M Fletcher specializes in internal medicine in Garden Grove, CA and has over 18 years of experience in the field of medicine. As for the fact of them reaching out to people not in their normal vein, Im not sure how much that happened. I would like to be able to say that this is out of concern for the victims. CoE Bishops fearful about the consequences of gay blessings vote, leak shows. CoE Bishops fearful about the consequences of gay blessings vote, leak Catholic University of America Professor Pushes Back Against Conversion Therapy Studies. It was the cause of some mirth in the local area. The boys did not become cult members they went back to their rather privileged homes and schools and carried on just as before, except that some of them began to practise Christianity. The retreat took place in a guest house in the country, I think in Broughton, near Barrow in Furness. They added: David Fletcher leads a long, long list of people who knew about Smyth over 40 years, failed to stop him, and failed to disclose the abuse to authorities. On another day we drove into Barrow and had a look around. I met John Smyth myself only once probably in 1982. Perhaps worth a guest post on this site? independent) schools. Who knew what and when about abuse at Iwerne? Thank you. It was very cosmopolitan and full of the sons of people prominent in the arts and sciences. I wonder how often this is replicated in the Church of England. WebRetrieved 21 August 2021. It was also quite normal for them to marry in their mid to late 20s. Its time to face up to the truth about this. As a day school and at the time inadequate facilities for everyone to be sporty, there was zero military activity either. The lady helpers cooked at the camps, and were potential incubators of the next generation, and so were tolerable. Meanwhile Pete Wards Growing Up Evangelical is a good place to begin. Still, its always good to take a second look. He served in that capacity continuously until August 2016, only resigning his post when the Iwerne Trust was closed in a bid to distance it from its successor. At the time Our Age entered the public schools they inculcated two ideals: manliness and loyalty. This is not to say that the VPS wasnt or isnt sinister, in the same way that all the para-church groups operating behind the scenes in the C of E are sinister. Play is universal, and the fact that play appears years before sexual desire shows that play is not essentially a sex-substitute. The Revd The Hon David Fletcher was employed as the senior officer of the Iwerne Trust from 1967 until 1986, when he became a trustee. Blessed are the sleek. But play among friends will be found less among the married than among the unmarried. Many thanks, Mr Brown, for all your reportage over the years: you have taught me a great deal. WebView FREE Public Profile & Reputation for David Fletcher in Newport Beach, CA - See Court Records | Photos | Address, Emails & Phone Number | Personal Review | $250K+ Income & Net Worth Search by Name, Phone, Address, or Email It was just the sort of place where admitting to having gone to one private school or another would likely have received relatively short shrift, or at least with bland indifference. The strategic work of Iwerne reaching the few to reach the many was in peril. He died of a heart attack in 2018 aged 77 at his home in Cape That doesnt seem to me a kind thing to do, especially to newcomers. We also had, perhaps in the autumn, recruiting drives where boys were urged to bring their friends along to class; indeed, there were rewards (in the shape of points for your team) if you did this. I think it goes back further than that. When was David Fletcher born? He graduated from Ohio University Of Osteo Medicine with his medical degree in 2004. Dick Lucas was and remained rector at Bishopsgate; Dick France took over at Wycliffe Hall. I had a posh boyfriend once. Anthony Archer on Surviving Church 3.10.19 post identified 1968-78 as Iwernes highwater mark, which in terms of numbers it probably was (peaking in 1977 I believe), with a strong core of participants. At Sussex I had a tutorial partner whod been to Benenden. The allure of its algorithmic theology a tweedy, brisk, Colonial spin on a 16thcentury Swiss reaction to some mediaeval Roman Catholic abuses took longer to fade. Thanks Edward. When I was at Wycliffe only a handful of students had begun training straight from university; most had had another career first. In Bowens house at Harrow no boy might have an armchair, a fire or a warm bath. It was, of course, the period of National Service, which was used to prop up the crumbling Empire. John Smyth was the Chairman of the Iwerne Trust. Re Westminster: I realize now that it was not a typical public school. And of course Jonathan Fletcher was on numerous boards. It was so pervasive as to be invisible except in hindsight. But in rather obscure prose it also stated that the representations process, for all involved is expected to be complex, with the eventual date of publication being determined by this. The Revd The Hon David Fletcher has died aged 89 following a four-year battle with cancer. But I got the impression that he was very much the junior player while DF was the big noise: I think he was not long out of theological college. I hope these were house parties for toddlers, not for adults? Yes, were learning a great deal about other lighthearted activities, such as JFs lighthearted forfeits (beatings). Indeed, Christianity struggled also at Sussex to gain a foothold for a while: there was considerable opposition to having any form of chapel, and it was only in 1966 that Fulton was persuaded that there should be a non-denominational meeting house, designed by Basil Spence, and made possible by a donation from Sydney Caffyn of the car dealership (who was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church of England), Stanmer church in the neighbouring Park being used periodically as a more specifically Anglican location until its closure in 2009 (it is now in poor condition). It was a hard choice, and to be honest I didnt handle it well. David Fletcher dies, criticised, with an enormous shadow overhanging his legacy, What will make us most angry is the paeans of praise that will inevitably mark his passing. My apprehensions about this were assuaged by the calm support of C, who was an experienced hill walker. In our culture, reflection was actively discouraged. Anyone who read a newspaper, looked at magazine, or watched TV, knew about Playboy Bunnies. Episcopal Church of the USA and Church of Sweden Judas Iscariot: patron exemplar of the politicisation of spirituality. Most of the recent interest in the Iwerne camps has focussed on the period from the late 70s onwards when John Smyth and the Fletcher brothers were prominent in the camps and their organisation. They happen in friendship contexts; in school contexts; in medical-student contexts; in Catholic Trainee-Priest contexts. This is without counting pcc members who politely ignored shenanigans. Jonathan Fletcher is 10 years younger than his brother, and of an age with the late John Smyth. These men were young officers (leaders) at the Iwerne evangelical camps targeting the top 30 English fee-paying boarding schools. One thing we have learned about manipulative narcissistic abusers is that they work within the context in which they can prosper, and some of the attitudes identified here as unhealthy were amplified by Fletcher and Smyth. A boy had to endure the headmasters birch or the prefects cane without flinching or crying, however unfair and however savage the beating might be. I presume that my public school background had been noted, since I received a visit from David Fletcher, the Commandant of the Iwerne Minster camp. The world where only a select few have a say, has gone. Dick France was a lovely gentle man with a good sense of humour. Smythe, presumably, felt himself divinely ordained to beat that prospect out of his charges: in his deranged mind there was simply too much at stake. 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