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.
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.
Taking a pg from @sampowell365's book, a few random things: 1. Rabbits prefer structures w/2 doors 2. Drip feeders transformed my houseplant hobby 3. Hot lips salvia is a wonderfully hardy, long-blooming perennial
4 All institutions have scapegoating patterns. Watch out for those
5. Ice cold limoncello is sunshine in a bottle. 6. This pigeon nest in my garden explains alot.
7. This rainbow sprinkler is one of the best purchases I've ever made. 8. Survivors of violence, remember that Georgia, USA is a single-party consent state for covert recording of conversations. Check ur local laws & proceed accordingly.
In 3 days @crutweets starts its annual conference in Milwaukee, where 2 yrs ago George Floyd was murdered.
Cru will bring @visitmilwaukee $$$$, using 30+ hotels, along with arenas & theatres for housing & meetings.
Milwaukee, you may want to note a few facts about Cru:
1. Cru requires all employees to sign an NDA. Cru positions itself as a church in order to justify their disciplinary procedures. These procedures allow Cru to “sever ties with anyone who is not teachable or is uncooperative.”
2. Cru has alienated its BIPOC staff.
This has happened not least in Cru leaders' response to a 2020 report entitled ‘Seeking Clarity and Unity,’ written by key Cru staff members, objecting to various initiatives to root out racial injustice within Cru.
@glennjerrell Dear Glenn, I'm more interested in how and why the OPC continues to attract and put into positions of influence men like Tuininga. What has the OPC learned from this case and so many extreme others? What changes might need to be made?
@glennjerrell I've written &deleted several tweets about this. Given what the OPC has done even just to me personally, Glen, please reflect on the meaning of your pitting me against another woman here, saying in essence here's a model of a more pleasant & grateful woman for you to mimic.
@glennjerrell The OPC should be in mourning for even just the past few years of Davenport, Tuininga, Earnest, Anderson, Spangler, Castle. The list goes on. Yet your thoughts go to how well you cleaned up. Just last wk an OPC minister approvingly shared material by my abusive childhood pastor.
Listened to this episode, released after PCA (Keller's denom) published their report on Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault.
I wondered, as Keller faces life-threatening illness, what would he say, finally, about his involvement w/Mark Driscoll?
A few quotes:
[TW: racism, white supremacy]
Plenty of officers & laypeople in/with links to the OPC thinly veil their misogyny & white supremacy behind pseudonyms.
Here's one particularly vile example, below a disgusting post on a kinist site targeting a Black man attending an OPC church.
But on occasion, OPCers will simply post their racist garbage in plain site, using their own names. Please take care looking at these images as they are deeply offensive.
The OPC man in the previous screenshots is an online follower of another person I strongly suspect is in the OPC, who uses the fake name Nil Desperandum. This guy is involved in running/writing for a kinist website called Faith and Heritage