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# 📧 TEC Contact Form
- URL: https://gijustice.com/20180903-0919-tec/
- Published: 2018-09-03T16:19:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T00:20:21.000Z
- Author: Logan M. Isaac
- Tags: RADVOCO, Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, Stanley Hauerwas

**Name:** Logan Isaac  
**Describe Yourself:** Congregant  
**Interested in:** The Presiding Bishop's Office  
**Comments / Questions:**  
 I am contacting you as a communicant in good standing of the Protestant  
 Episcopal Church in the United States to request that Stanley Hauerwas be  
 removed from the speakers list for the September RADVO Conference in Dallas,  
 TX. He is currently scheduled to speak Thursday, September 20th at 6pm.  
  
 On May 22, 2016 I reached out to Hauerwas “in the spirit of Matthew 18,"  
 following multiple public statements by him which dehumanized myself and  
 other members of the military. On June 15 and July 25 he and I met on campus  
 at Duke University, where we were both teaching at the time, with the stated  
 goal of reconciliation. The fruit of these two meetings was an agreement to  
 “co-teach” a course on the virtues of military formation. After  
 developing the course together, on November 3, 2016, Hauerwas demanded an  
 exchange of favors from me, which would have substantially reduced student  
 enrollment and, consequently, the likelihood of that course being taught  
 again. His demand was coercive, including an explicit condition which an  
 ordinarily prudent person would have known carried substantial risk to my  
 future employment as a whole. Another faculty member has told me I likely  
 have been “blacklisted” from doctoral programs for reporting the abuse,  
 which effectively has denied me the opportunity to pursue a career in my  
 profession of choice.  
  
 In January, 2017 I involved my priest, the Reverend Karen Barfield, who  
 convened several members of Saint Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Durham, NC  
 to serve as a small discussion group to discern steps forward. As a result of  
 that discernment process, I contacted Hauerwas’ priest, the Reverend Clarke  
 French on July 29, 2017, asking for a mediated conversation in the continued  
 hope of reconciliation. Rev. French relayed to me that Hauerwas was  
 “unwilling” to meet. The week of August 5, 2017, I was referred to Bishop  
 Suffragan Anne Hodges-Copple via the pastoral response team, as she was the  
 acting Diocesan Bishop at the time, who expressed similar concerns about  
 Hauerwas’ behavior and indicated that others have had comparable  
 complaints. The current Diocesan Bishop, Bishop Sam Rodman (CCed), was  
 involved starting on February 20, 2018 and he continues to impress upon  
 Hauerwas my request for a mediated conversation. The fruit of those efforts  
 are unknown to me.  
  
 This is ecclesiastically significant because the requirements of the  
 Eucharist, outlined explicitly in the Anglican Catechism, include  
 self-examination, repentance, and living in love and charity with others, two  
 of which Hauerwas has refused to display toward fellow Communicants. This is  
 also significant because the exchange of favors that Hauerwas demanded is a  
 secular crime. Because Hauerwas and I were each employed by a "program or  
 activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” his actions also reflect  
 the crime of intimidation as described by 18 USC § 245 (b)(4). Furthermore,  
 as a disabled combat veteran, I am protected by other federal laws which this  
 behavior violates, including, but not limited to, the following  
 \* Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment & Assistance Act of 1974  
 \* Sections 503 & 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973  
 \* Title I & II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990  
  
 Hauerwas' behavior has trivialized our tradition & doctrine time and time  
 again, and has himself directly undermined the exclesiastical authority with  
 which priests are divinely ordained; neither the Holy Orders of two parish  
 priests nor two diocesan bishops have yet proven sufficient to compel him to  
 reflect the qualities of membership in the Anglican communion by being  
 reconciled to a person against whom he had abused his power and influence.  
 Furthermore, this contrasts sharply with Archbishop Justin Welby’s stated  
 priority of reconciliation.  
  
 There are plenty of platforms and events which he is uniquely qualified to  
 address, especially within the academic arena, but a gathering to celebrate  
 and inspire the next generation of priests is no such venue. I must insist on  
 a response in writing, given the short amount of time left before the event.  
 If no reply is given to this private correspondence, or indicated by email  
 prior to 11:59pm on Wednesday, September 5th, it will be converted to an  
 "open letter" that I will share with journalists as well as the general  
 public. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to your  
 considered response, or an indication that one is pending.  
  
 In Christ,  
  
 The results of this submission may be viewed at:  
[https://www.episcopalchurch.org/node/8596/submission/176841](https://www.episcopalchurch.org/node/8596/submission/176841?ref=gijustice.com)