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It's a very valid feeling to feel lost in the Christian world looking at the harm in just about every denomination or group.
Beware of those who think that their group is instantly safe/inherently better.
Beware of those who think that their group is instantly safe/inherently better.
But I also think there are healthy people and healthy versions of every kind of Christianity there is. Genuine advocates who take a strong stand against abuse, for example.
Sometimes what we need is a community of people we know we can trust & walk with.
Sometimes what we need is a community of people we know we can trust & walk with.
I do believe that it is God's work exposing sin in the church. Those who attack whistle blowers are resisting the conviction of God.
I've seen a lot of #acnatoo #sbctoo #pcatoo & #churchtoo on Christian Twitter & have been encouraged by every kind of Christian who's speaking up.
I've seen a lot of #acnatoo #sbctoo #pcatoo & #churchtoo on Christian Twitter & have been encouraged by every kind of Christian who's speaking up.
Church historians take note!!!
PCA history was made, when, in September 2016, @forejessica painted a dress with all the names her presbytery clerk had called her and wore it to a presbytery meeting.
#ChurchToo #PCAtoo
jessicafore.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/pca…
PCA history was made, when, in September 2016, @forejessica painted a dress with all the names her presbytery clerk had called her and wore it to a presbytery meeting.
#ChurchToo #PCAtoo
jessicafore.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/pca…
Priot to this, in April, @JessicaForeGA had attended another presbytery meeting to which she carried a protest sign reading "Justice not Abuse". She would later take this to worship & lay it at her feet in lament, an act her fellow congregants used as evidence of her impropriety.
Six yrs later, the Ad Interim Committee on Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault delivered its report. Jessica Fore was named at #PCAGA but appears nowhere in the written report, a glaringly disrespectful omission.
#PCA please hear us. Women serving in the church isn't just about women feeling appreciated and the church body benefitting from our gifts (though it isn't less than that). This week, there is one very important aspect I want you to think about: (cont)
The lack of visible female leadership in the church impacts how all members think about women. If women are weak, easily deceived, bad at theology and logic, and always trying to usurp authority it's no wonder they aren't believed when they report abuse to men in charge. (cont)
It's no wonder that abusive men can convince entire congregations that their victim(s) are crazy, irrational, unbalanced, unreliable, even dangerous. Because that isn't a far cry from how women are spoken about *from the pulpit* in some churches.
This article made me weep. I wept for the victims (both known and unknown), wept at the way the case was handled by the GA Foothills Presbytery, wept because it was all too familiar, wept because it shows a pattern. #PCAtoo
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I came forward when I learned that a man, who had groomed me and come onto me as a teen, had received a call in the presbytery. I told my story with a shaking voice because I wanted people to know what happened. I wanted to protect other women.
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I was thanked for coming forward. They gathered my story, spoke to others and my abuser. In the end, I was told that they believed me, but there wasn’t enough evidence to move forward. I get it. It was 17 years ago. I just wanted them to bring it before the presbytery meeting.
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