Thread 1: I want to zoom in on a particular point. As a pastoral resident at @ChurchRez for two years I can confirm multiple statements said by Katharine Ruch that match the horrifying rumor that reached CM, that KR indicated a “bad home” could dismiss allegations
https://twitter.com/acnatoo/status/1412957175073234945
Katharine Ruch (and therefore @StewartRuch by extension) repeatedly in private dismissed family and parenting models that don’t mirror their own. This creates a toxic elitism and spiritual pride by extension for those who adopt their views.
These views often remained private and largely unkonwn by @ChurchRez congregants. However in 2019 Rez hosted #fullyaliveconference in which Katharine Ruch revealed some (though not all) of her views on motherhood fullyaliveconference.com/home/
These included prescribing co-sleeping by dismissing "statistics" which falsely warned of its dangers and gesturing towards "all the research in attachment theory" that she claimed required mothers to not work and stay home with infants thru 3 years
At this conference @StewartRuch also preached for 70 minutes on "slaying the gnostic dragon" of our age and the next morning would reveal vivid surrealist dreams that confirmed God's presence at the conference
Strikingly, the conference was recorded but never published or shared because @StewartRuch claimed those outside "wouldn't understand this without being here with us" (I can confirm this account because I attended the conference in full)
Though some were disturbed by Katharine's teaching, the conference served to strengthen the sense of spiritual distinction and sacrifice @MidwestAnglican has fostered around their family/sexual ethics. This led I believe to an environment in which CM's allegations were dismissed
CM's account of Katharine's remarks, "I would believe the allegations if they were MY children", relayed by other and therefore not confirmed, sound entirely plausible given any who know the Ruch's personally (as I do) and reveal a toxic culture of spiritual elitism
There is no smoke without fire. Accounts about Katharine Ruch, as any in the diocese know, reveal much about @StewartRuch's posture towards this investigation that public statements made by the diocese do not
@ChurchRez does not appear to have taken the allegations of CM as credible from the start and it was likely shared dismissal by @StewartRuch and Katharine of CM's "home life" nor mirroring their own, that contributed to their mishandling of the case #acnatoo @The_ACNA
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