Sam's Wondering

"There's staring, and there's screaming, and there's a secret third thing"

[Sam's Wondering @SamNotReallySam]

1/ @WillowCreekCC is approaching their 50th anniversary--so towards 5 full decades of multiple sexual predator clerics and never-ending Institutional Cowardice and Institutional Betrayal of victim-survivors: a thread (this thread is gonna get so. long. over the next 8 months)

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@ChrissyQISBACK @TheRayCurryJr @ReachRoysReport As a note, I'm reasonably certain that @ReachRoysReport did not know about this stuff when she invited Mr. Curry to speak at the conference. Give her half a minute to do her homework I reckon she'll publish something. She was straight up about David Pooler.

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1/ Cynthia Ashley appears to be suggesting that Ray Curry Jr. of CHURCH Unlimited and The Unction has, perhaps, spoken openly about being unfaithful to his wife, Tabitha, and is now purging videos from the internet.

[Cynthia Ashley @ashley_cyn45518]

Asking for sources, as I feared, it looks like he has purged his video library. I am not good at the whole techy research thing, so I’m asking if anyone out there knows how to find those videos or references… whether it be a thumbnail or whatever…

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Hi @Nay_Landell this you? You. Rock!

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7/ winning at life.

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7/ winning at life.

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6/ Ray Curry Junior has spoken publicly about being on staff at a church when he was very young in the late 90s or early 2000s, and leaving that church/resigning due to some problems at the church he describes. I'm curious about the other side of that story.

[Sam's Wondering @SamNotReallySam]

@ashley_cyn45518 I also.

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Hi @TheRayCurryJr. May I ask a question?

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Hi @latrkinma.

I have concerns about @TheRayCurryJr appearing as a speaker on the stage at Restore 2027 Conference.

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Hi @blaiseforet. I see you did a podcast with pastor @TheRayCurryJr in May last year.

Information is emerging today that he "committed adultery" while he was a minister/on staff at an unnamed church. He has been rather vocally critical of that church. Thought you should know.

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Speaking of so many ways to love God, Dr. @DavidDark =) https://t.co/El7lvtwVD3

[Founder & CEO of the David Dark Situation @DavidDark]

@SamNotReallySam @AndyStanley @DaultRadio @ProtAccountDB You bet, but please read @DaultRadio's long reply 1st, please. It's crazy helpful. Dunno if @AndyStanley would characterize himself as a business person (Would you, Andy?), but I do imagine he's committed to a bit. We become the bit(s) to which we commit. https://t.co/sjWkdjlGzX

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@SheHerHers5 @ashley_cyn45518 @ReachRoysReport Hi SheHerHers. I'm grateful.

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Golly, it'd be a gigabummer if Christianity Today folded. Maybe even terabummer.

[Ruth Graham @publicroad]

Another perspective on the situation at Christianity Today from @bonniekristian, whose last day was Friday: "At CT, in my experience, editorial independence is formally intact but functionally undermined. Again, this is due not to political or theological drift but to fear."

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@ashley_cyn45518 Also, would you be willing to send me the screenshots, via DM?

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@ashley_cyn45518 Hi Cynthia.

I reckon, give Julie Roys half a second. She seems like good people, and she works on a different sort of timeline than ... us non-journalists, in my experence. I suspect she's not ignoring you, just doing what she does, in the background.

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@ashley_cyn45518 It is kind of mildly amazing to me that Ray Curry Jr. has spoken publicly about having had an affair, and yet has managed to ... keep that SUPER quiet, in a larger public sense. Very, very clever Impression Management, I reckon. So far I have been unable to find ANY reference.

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@ashley_cyn45518 This song from Australian musical genius Tim Minchin comes to mind. Apologies for the language. https://t.co/o2tQrEzfWV

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@ashley_cyn45518 I'm super grateful to you, Cynthia, for your profound courage in speaking up publicly about this complete and utter fuckery. So. Grateful.

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@ashley_cyn45518 It seems deeply bananas, to me, for any male pastor in the USA the 2020s to ever, ever, ever, ever, ever use the term "Jezebel Spirit", in light of the fact that Chaves & Garland found 3.1% of women have been victims of abusive sexual advances by their own trusted pastor.

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@ashley_cyn45518 Pardon my French, but F*** that podcaster cohort. geez.