One of the things that excites me but also saddens me is that the Christian church is experiencing a reckoning on its many abuses. Folks are pulling back the covers, throwing open the windows, and airing out the nature of toxic relationships, experiences, and abuse.
That's only part of the reckoning I'm speaking on because the other half is receptivity and response in the hearing. It is becoming clear that the institutional church has WORK to do to be appropriately responsive and responsible to those experiencing harm & being harmful.
Cause prayer without intervention is complicity in violence.
The excitement I spoke of is linked to feeling deeply that this uncovering is leading people to wrestle and question things they never did before.

A friend just asked "well, what do we do". In response I said 'not this bc we know what is does not serve us & isn't working'.

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17 Mar
A Non-Asian PSA:
In light of some of y'all being determined to show your ass in the wake of #AntiAsianHate here is are some tips to help you not do that:

- an appropriate response to someone mourning is "I see you". Center them, not yourself
- Focus on the pain of *Asian people*, not your relationship to *Asian produced objects*. No one gives a fuck about you driving a Hyundai

- Asians have long dealt with being invisibilized yet othered in this country. The hypervisibilty that's happened in the last year is jarring
- Racial bypassing is a thing many of us do that makes us complicit in more subtle forms of anti-Asian violence. Don't be that person who says "This is sad but let's move onto talking about...." because this is you participating in their invisibilizing & complicating them sharing
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16 Mar
"There are things we love or hate about Christianity that still feel to dangerous to explore or or even think about because we've not been given tools to do grief navigation or be honest due to our pain.

I feel this is where my work comes in…"
aliciatcrosby.com/blog/2021/3/16…
Dear Loves,
I know my recent posts have brought up a lot for folks recently because of how pointedly I've spoken about religious violence, trauma, fear, and pain in and related to the Christian tradition.
Some of you have felt validated, others triggered, and others still holding a mixed bag of emotions. That's why I wanted to share something with you.
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16 Mar
There's a lot of pain being felt in or because of Christianity and it's functioning right now and I want to offer this in response to what I'm perceiving.
You are seen and known to the Divine.
You are seen and known to people.
Violence and trauma may be imbedded in your history but they do not have to be a part of your legacy.
May peace be your friend, may love that does not hurt or operate thru coercion abound for you, and may your spirit come to know rest.
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15 Mar
[STORYTIME] Sometimes life surprises you and I want to share a bit of how it snuck up on me.

Most of you won't know this but @jorymicah and I are very intentionally building relationship around accountability with one another which may surprise some of you.
We've known about one another for years & interacted in the past which often led to great facepalming & giving her up to God on my part lol.

But in the last year or so something shifted.

I began to see Jory soften, accept correction, & genuinely seek to understand in new ways.
I found myself proud of this woman I barely knew because I saw her actively fighting the culture in which she was formed and raised which is no easy task. I saw this white woman who by her own admission was defensive change it up and try hard to see and deal with her privilege.
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15 Mar
The last 24hrs have caused me to renegotiate how I see some ministers and theologians as well as what I'm willing to trust them for.
I've seen more than my fill of emotional and spiritual bypassing, blaming, skirting ministerial accountability, and other toxic sharing that pissed me off as a researcher whose work is on spiritual abuse, violence, and trauma and as a survivor of varied forms of abuse...
...including that which is familial who ministers to people actively deconstructing, reconstituting, and decolonizing their faith.
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4 Nov 20
Some of you are genuinely surprised & dismayed by the incoming election results & while I'm not, I'm touched by the tenderness present in that.

You genuinely believe that people can show up at the polls & vote in ways that reflect care & freedom for others should be priorities.
Your hope is beautiful. Your hearts are in the right place & it's OK to feel grief over what early projections reflect: some people do not hold the same values that you do.

They do not believe in freedom for all. They do not weep over the pain & loss so many feel.
It is time for you to learn how to hold onto hope while working to disentangle yourself from US American myths.

This country's foundation is rotten. Genocide, exploitation, disenfranchisement, & enslavement were & still are priorities for people - they've just changed forms.
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