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Year 40 Day 29
Here’s the first bit of my termination letter from the PCA church where I was employed as the director of women and children’s ministry. #churchtoo #pcatoo #spiritualabuse #churchtrauma
https://t.co/Djdte954XR
When it comes to dealing with clergy sex abuse, there's a vast chasm between what religious leaders SAY and what they actually DO.
I'm grateful for journalists who work to understand & illuminate that chasm. #ChurchToo #PCAtoo #SBCtoo #ACNAtoo #AoGtoo
One last piece of context, if I may. My years of reporting on abuse reform in the SBC informed how I approached this PCA story. It's challenged me to think carefully about what meaningful abuse response/reform actually looks like in practice (i.e. https://t.co/adwprLbFIk).
In the Presbyterian Church in America, when women brought forward allegations of physical, sexual & emotional abuse, THE WOMEN faced discipline.
@liamsadams talked to the women & tells their stories. ⬇️ #PCAtoo #ChurchToo
“At the beginning of this whole process, I was giving the benefit of the doubt that the PCA was fundamentally an organization founded in good faith,” Fore told me. "My opinion of that has changed entirely.” https://t.co/6DKdwxzgbi
Some folks are meeting regularly to discuss abuse in the PCA. Reach out if you want to be a part of the conversation. #pca #pcatoo @presbyterianpew
Church buildings & basements, church offices & sanctuaries. For many of us, these were crime scenes with our childhood bodies mapped out in every nook & corner.
Far from being sanctuaries, churches were hell-holes. #ChurchToo #SBCtoo #PCAtoo #ACNAtoo
A "Good Survivor" is considered "good" precisely "to the extent that they are useful for upholding the image-making of the toxic org & its leaders." ⬇️
#ChurchToo #ThisistheSBC #ACNAtoo #PCAtoo #SBCtoo
@TaniaCHumphrey @ladyjessicahaze @ChristaBrown777 @darterdancer The Good/Bad Survivor thing can take on lots of variations, but I think it all comes down to the survivor being considered "good" to the extent that they are useful for upholding the image-making of the toxic org & its leaders.
This spring a second church left the Central Indiana Presbytery and the PCA, largely due to the outcome of the Herron case. Their public statement is here: https://t.co/XKmOki9MCX
#ChurchToo #PCAtoo #PCAGA
@realprophetguy "You took my home, and my family—my community. You scattered everyone that I loved. And I want it back." #churchtoo #menemenetekelupharsin #pcatoo #pca #pcaga
Eric McKiddie, Chapel Hill Bible Church pastor forced to resign for abusive behavior, has been formally ordained in the PCA courtesy of @HiltonHeadPres.
#PCAtoo
@wartwatch @EKHyland @tisaiahcho @aaronjhann @vhobbs5
Donna Wescott left the event feeling the “systems & organization of the PCA is much more important to some of these men than real life, flesh & blood who have experienced abuse.”
#PCAtoo #ChurchToo #SBCtoo
The PCA General Assembly yet again rejected overtures to require background checks & expand witness eligibility for church courts. Advocates for abuse reform are concerned the inaction follows a lack of awareness about cases happening in real-time. #PCAGA https://t.co/jkUddemd78
#PCAtoo
Churches are failing to do the simple things and God won’t bless them for it
It baffles me that holding onto power and monies, protecting institutions is more important than the people and their mindset tells them this is right and good
Answering to God will be…🤢
Also, an overture encouraging churches and presbyteries to partner with third party experts in instances of alleged abuse failed to pass the overtures committee, a rejection the full assembly didn’t reverse. https://t.co/jkUddemd78
#PCAGA
Advocacy and ambition do not mix. Ambition is rot in the foundation of care for victims, survivors, and those in crisis in the church.
Advocacy and Ambition Part 2: What God has separated, let no one join together.
#churchtoo #pcatoo #sbctoo #acnatoo
https://t.co/EjFoR19fuY
In the PCA, the seminary isn’t the true decider of who goes into ministry. But the assortment of weird dudes raises questions about how well the denomination screens candidates… and whether the police truly looked at everyone of concern.
#pcaga #churchtoo #pcatoo
Some thought I have had while listening to True Believer:
1) The systemic misogyny & pride sounds exactly like what #pcatoo survivors have been speaking out against and being met with gaslighting all over this site by leaders saying that those are not issues in the PCA.
E10: Listen to two adult children of the prime suspect, Michael, tell us about the impact of Elizabeth Mackintosh’s death on their family.
Warning for descriptions of child abuse.
#pcaga #churchtoo
Exactly this. ⬇️ "Information control is of the utmost importance to high control groups."
#IHOPKC #ACNAtoo #SBCtoo #ThisistheSBC #PCAtoo
Part of why it’s urgent to keep speaking is that information control is of the utmost importance to high control groups. Keeping folks on the inside insulated & thinking the crisis is over & minimizing it is how they keep the show going. Do not stop talking! #mikebickle #ihopkc
@sassiterian @aaronjhann @darterdancer @stevemarusich @CAHutch1990 @liamsadams It’s those who want a facade of “unity of the brethren” and anyone who wants only the appearance of “justice”. Those who always vote for the pastor “even if we know he’s guilty, because these #pcatoo women are all out to get us, and exaggerating or lying”.
This is a really important thread. Recently I've adopted the phrase "Polity on Paper vs Polity in Practice" as the focus of what I write and share. Yes there is a neat and orderly document. But its actual application can be messy or even life-threatening. #pcatoo
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