Before his death, Bruce Yocum of the Servants of the Word gave a talk heavily focused on the 2018 Catholic sexual abuse crisis to the People of God, a covenant community outside Pittsburgh, PA.
I just found this Substack on the Servants of the Word/Sword of the Spirit and I don't know the author's name but THANK YOU for doing this!
Bruce Yocum was President of the Servants of the Word for a term, wasn't he? Then the truth is he probably KNEW about the complaints against Ed Conlin in Belfast and Jamie Treadwell from the UK/US. He probably just ignored those 'weeds' cause he liked doing the fun stuff... giving talks, getting paid to talk about God, living for free in one of the most expensive places in the world to live. His premature death has always bothered me, because I would have preferred to see his name on the law suits that have been filed against the SOW over the past couple of years.
I just found this Substack on the Servants of the Word/Sword of the Spirit and I don't know the author's name but THANK YOU for doing this!
Bruce Yocum was President of the Servants of the Word for a term, wasn't he? Then the truth is he probably KNEW about the complaints against Ed Conlin in Belfast and Jamie Treadwell from the UK/US. He probably just ignored those 'weeds' cause he liked doing the fun stuff... giving talks, getting paid to talk about God, living for free in one of the most expensive places in the world to live. His premature death has always bothered me, because I would have preferred to see his name on the law suits that have been filed against the SOW over the past couple of years.
Bruce was presiding elder of the SOW from 1989 through 2003. This spanned the entire time that both Jamie Treadwell and Ed Conlin served in Belfast.
Exactly, Bruce “told on himself” with this one. I’m sickened that he presented this to my (then) community. I’m so glad to be out!!!