Church leadership seems less nimble than before

[Archaea]

It seems the recent years have exposed the frailties of the corporate autocratic leadership of the LDS Church. Nobody below senior level management is empowered to make any decisions.

Take for example, Kevin Worthen and the current debacle with the Title IX investigations. If he had been empowered, a wise management decision would have been to strongly support the victims of rape or sexual abuse, to declare a comprehensive study is in order and to make a decision to avoid punishing the victim. The likelihood of false claims to avoid HCO punishment seems minimal and the harm when the HCO is wrong versus whatever minimal benefit might exist is disparate.

The Boy Scout debacle about not supporting the change until management returns is another example of the lack of empowerment anybody but the senior level managers possess.

The Church is so authoritarian, by claiming authority from on high, which other churches have done and continue to do, that any question even for the purpose of understanding is considered a heretical act. The lack of transparency, the animosity toward gays and their children and inability to see the other side of the equation is hindering the Church's mission. It is heresy to ask, but where is the inspiration? It is getting it wrong with many Millennials, and the answer the leadership now espouses, is, if you have friends who lose faith, abandon them and don't listen to them. That almost seems to be a complete acknowledgment that leadership doesn't have answers to any of the questions. The hunker down mentality won't weather this storm well.