For those unaware of what has been going on with SPCK bookshops, this is a collection of links which should bring you up to speed.<\/p>\n
SPCK bookshops were last year sold to St Stephen the Great charity – based in Texas, supposedly Orthodox.<\/a><\/p>\n For various reasons the SPCK shops have been allowed to run down, many of them closed.<\/a><\/p>\n The union USDAW is taking SSG to court over various alleged malpractices.<\/a><\/p>\n The manager of the SPCK shop in Worcester committed suicide because of all the stresses.<\/a><\/p>\n SSG – as a UK charity! – have sought bankruptcy protection in the US; I understand our Charity Commission are investigating them.<\/a><\/p>\n An Essex cartoonist\/blogger named Dave Walker – who is currently ‘cartoonist in residence’ at the Lambeth conference – reported consistently on the above for a period of 18 months. Last week he was threatened with a ‘cease and desist’ order by SSG (a man named J Mark Brewer) and he took down some 75 posts on his blog about the SPCK.<\/a><\/p>\n And this is where I came in – I thought this was unjust – so I recopied some of Dave’s posts on to my blog, was also served a ‘cease and desist’ order by Mr Brewer, but I’ve published it all here:<\/a><\/p>\n This is a list of all the bloggers who’ve been supporting Dave:<\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those unaware of what has been going on with SPCK bookshops, this is a collection of links which should bring you up to speed. SPCK bookshops were last year sold to St Stephen the Great charity – based in … Continue reading