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5 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
An NDA that @crutweets leadership required a traumatized staff member to sign contains this assertion of control:

"Your relationship with Cru is solely under the authority of Cru ...
... Nothing in this agreement shall be construed as a waiver of any rights held by Cru to assert that the 1st & 14th amendments bar any court ... from having jurisdiction to review and/or regulate the employment relationship between you & Cru."
Some religious employers/orders granted the right of ministerial exception through the courts have (perhaps unsurprisingly) abused them. #NDAFree #CruToo

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Dr. Valerie Hobbs Profile picture
6 Jul
A few morning thoughts about intersectionality.

A Nov 2020 doc, written by a signif number of @crutweets staff members,
objecting to Cru's anti-racism efforts,
contains these misguided statements about intersectionality.

The source? John MacArthur
dailywire.com/news/macarthur… ImageImageImage
One of the main problems with these statements is that they meet the concept of intersectionality through the lens of defensiveness, realised through projection.
This defensiveness is a feature of the entire document, centred as it is on certain Cru staff members' hurt feelings at having to think about racism.

languageandreligion.com/2021/05/07/cal…
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Dr. Valerie Hobbs Profile picture
22 Jun
Someone has given me a glimpse into some of the conspiracy theories circulating in Cru's staff alumni group.

According to one former staff member, liberation theology was created by the KGB to overthrow the Catholic Church, so
Recommended reading: cruxnow.com/church/2015/05…
Elsewhere, according to another Cru alumnus, white people are like Polish villagers during Nazi occupation

"If one village killed a Nazi invader the entire village would pay. To punish all "whites" and make them pay reparations for the crimes of others is the same kind of logic"
Read 4 tweets
Dr. Valerie Hobbs Profile picture
30 May
Someone has given me a video of Cru US National Director Mark Gauthier responding to the recent anti-CRT report.
Rather than clearly condemning this highly inflammatory, racist document, Gauthier's key objection seems to be the fact that people found out about it. #CruToo
The way Gauthier frames his message is striking. After giving a note of personal thanks about prayers for his mother, he laments "the shooting that happened in Atlanta today where 8 people made in the image of God lost their lives. 6 women of Asian descent and 2 Caucasians."
"I also think about some of you that this kind of violence touches you in a very deep way. I want you to know that I'm praying for you, and I want to invite all of us to pray ..."

What matters here is what is *missing*.
No mention of the shooter nor Christian white supremacy.
Read 6 tweets
Dr. Valerie Hobbs Profile picture
7 May
Some of this responses to this post show us alot about how #religiouslanguage words.

We use religious language to evoke authority, tradition, mystery. It marks something as special (whether positively or negatively), set aside, sacred.
1/
2/
 If Christians with recognised authority call something "Biblical" (Biblical manhood, Biblical counseling, Biblical patriarchy),
& if this is repeated often enough,

The sacred meaning attached to that concept (of manhood or whatever) becomes *very difficult* to question/detach
3/
 If you question this concept that has been *branded* as Biblical,
You aren't just questioning the concept of manhood or counseling, etc.
You aren't just questioning the authority figures who designed that brand.
You are now questioning the Bible. You are questioning God.
Read 8 tweets
Dr. Valerie Hobbs Profile picture
6 May
A few thoughts on Cru's recent, deeply troubling publication on CRT, specifically its portrayal of critical theory.

p.48
"I don’t think you have to know about Critical Theory
or Cultural Marxism to have the biblical discernment
that these teachings contradict Scripture." #CruToo
This quote 👆 encapsulates so much that is wrong with evangelicalism.
I have been teaching on critical language pedagogy & critical language theories since 2008.
I can't say strongly enough how grossly inaccurate, wildly misinformed & dangerously unbalanced this Cru document is.
The Cru document is heavily dependent on one online 2019 TGC article on critical theory.
Yet even this article notes that "Christians, in general, are woefully ill-equipped to accurately represent & critique critical theory because of relying too heavily on secondary sources."
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