ABSTRACT
Using autoethnography as a springboard to a wider conversation, the author draws on her experience of clergy sexual misconduct in the Anglican Church in New Zealand and the UK, and that of other women, to illustrate theoretical perspectives on clergy sexual abuse – typical patterns followed by abusers, common responses from churches, and similarities in consequences for survivors. Institutional abuse only changes when survivors come forward. This chapter situates the authentic accounts of survivors of clergy sexual misconduct in a discussion of vocation and leadership in the church.
