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16 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Sam, returning from the store after getting my cousin ginger ale & resupplying me w/Guinness & cheese: "Heather, I will say this to you, which is one of @WarrenKinghorn 's favorite quotes: 'It is good that you exist. It is good that you are in the world.'"
Me: "Awww- thanks, Sam. What is that from?"

Sam: "Josef Pieper, 'Faith Hope & Love,' page 164."

Me: "...That's specific...But what publisher, Sam? What edition? The pagination might vary between editions."
I wish that Sam read the same books and articles that I do so that he could instantly generate a perfectly formatted footnote citation or bibliography entry on my behalf at a moment's notice.
Sam has just sent me a screenshot of a passage of @JohnSwintonAbdn 's "Dementia: Living in the Memories of God" so that I would have documentation that Dr. Swinton as well as Dr. Kinghorn is quite keen on this particular Pieper quote. Image
I like to think that if @JohnSwintonAbdn were her as Sam explained his love of that Pieper quote, Dr. Swinton would chuckle, call Sam "laddie," inform him that he was "chuffed to bits," & tell Sam that "it is good that you are in the world, it is good that you exist."
And then Sam would would beam as if Pumpkin had just walked in the room and allowed Sam to pet him, and Sam would say "That really just warms my heart," and then he would recount the story regularly to me as a happy thought, making special note of the date and day of the week.

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18 Oct
I think about this a lot with all the tragic accounts of spiritual abuse that we have heard from the @ACNAtoo survivors of @MidwestAnglican. I believe that the leaders were sincere, but time after time they dismissed the people they were hurting. A 🧵.
This is very easy to do if you are convinced that you are doing a better job than most at taking the Holy Spirit seriously & are deeply invested in seeing growth & transformation in the people under your care.
I believe that all the leaders of the @midwestdiocese have probably been completely sincere in their good intentions to help people and didn't realize at the time that they were hurting people.
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24 Aug
@matttebbe I'm not a clinician, but I collaborate with enough therapists & read enough clinical literature to usually get within the ballpark for referrals.

If I know a community well, I'm usually asking friends who are therapists & have good judgment about who they recommend.
@matttebbe If I don't have a network that I can tap, I do a google search based on the type of therapy I am looking for and the location, then I read the descriptions.
@matttebbe What kind of therapy I am looking for depends on my judgement as a reasonably well informed layperson. I do have some favorite go-to therapies: Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Emotionally Focused Therapy.
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22 Aug
One of the things that I wish we would teach pastors is that once they gain positions of authority and power, a large portion of the community will stop telling them things.
Those who have had bad experiences with authority often adapt by avoiding that pain again by not risking high stakes disclosures or by protecting the relationship with the leader by not sharing information that might jeopardize the relationship.
If you have a church culture that encourages leaders (even implictly) to have an overinflated confidence in their own judgment, pastors can go their entire careers minimizing the frequency of abuse in the population because very few people trust them with that information.
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21 Aug
@UrieBay @lizditz @littlewhitty I have some thoughts, but they wouldn't apply to everyone.

Nurses have to absorb a lot of the deficits of physicians and of healthcare systems as a whole. The burden of most patient nurture and care falls on them.
@UrieBay @lizditz @littlewhitty Because nurses are usually the primary point of contact w/patients (especially in a hospital setting), they are also the people who are most likely to receive patient frustrations.

Much of the burden of the system falls on nurses, but they receive little prestige relative to MDs
@UrieBay @lizditz @littlewhitty Strong anti-vaxx commitments (rather than vaccine anxiety, which can be separable) seem to be associated (in my anecdotal experience) with people who absorb the failures of the system but have little voice in the system.
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31 Jul
@The_ACNA Who is conducting this independent investigation?

What are their qualifications?

What is the scope of the investigation and its proposed methods?

In what ways is it "independent"?

Will the final report be public?
@The_ACNA Are the persons conducting this investigation trauma-informed and survivor-sensitive in their procedures for identifying victims & communicating with victims?

What methods do they employ that demonstrate claims to be survivor-sensitive & trauma-informed?
@The_ACNA What can survivors expect if they decide to entrust themselves to the Province's professions of grief & goodwill by sending an email identifying themselves as victims of abuse?

Who will read this email? What are their qualifications?
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30 Jul
Leaders on @The_ACNA were given all the info they needed to start protecting survivors and begin. building trust.

They didn't listen to some pretty basic, low bar requests.
Even someone who didn't care about survivors but cared about basic institutional image management could do better than this.

Instead, we get more leaders who are overconfident in their own judgment who don't listen carefully to the voices who matter most: survivors & experts.
I don't know how many times we have to say that sincerity and good intentions are meaningless if leaders don't listen and humbly learn to act wisely so they don't compound the harm done to victims and survivors.
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