To lose one cleric may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. (With apologies to Oscar Wilde.) St Paul's has now lost its Dean, following on from the resignation of the Canon. All driven by confusion of how to deal with the anti-capitalist protest on the doorstep.
To be fair it is hard for a symbol of the established church in England to come up with a coherent way of dealing with an event which has managed to close the doors of St Paul's with a subsequent loss of revenue and international prestige. Hard, but not impossible.
From the start the signals emerging from St Paul's did indicate much confusion over how to deal with the tented protestors: embrace them as carriers of the true faith or criticise them for what they are doing to the cathedral? Either might have been preferable to what became the impasse of inaction.
What were the key messages the cathedral wished to put into the public domain? Who was to be the public face of the church in this time of crisis? All along, St Paul's seems to have been on the back foot leaving the initiative with the campers. It does not have to be this way.
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