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Jan 23 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Why @The_ACNA is radio silent on presentment charges against @MidwestAnglican Bishop Stewart Ruch:

Thirteen words from Ruch's 5/4/21 diocesan letter disclosing allegations of sexual abuse.

"I have been keeping my superior, Archbishop Foley Beach, apprised of the situation."
The letter continues:

"... I have done the same with the Bishop's Council of the Upper Midwest Diocese and Church of the Resurrection's Vestry. They are highly supportive of all the decisions described in this letter."

Either Ruch told the truth, or he did not.
@ArchbishopFoley knows the truth.

So too do @The_ACNA chancellors, Scott Ward and Jeff Garrety.

So does @The_ACNA Provincial Office (COO Bp. Alan Hawkins & Comms Director Andrew Gross), and at least some in @The_ACNA Executive Committee and the Am. Anglican Council.

Silence.
Silence speaks volumes.

@The_ACNA clergy and members, please call for truth and justice. Please do not stand by and accept the silence of your leaders.

Peoples' lives depend on truth being told.

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Jan 19
.@The_ACNA silence to abuse allegations continues.

The College of Bishops met last week, but no known action in response to TWO investigations of alleged abuse mishandling by @MidwestAnglican Bp. Stewart Ruch has yet been publicly communicated. 🧵

acnatoo.org/acnatoo-blog/u…
The @HuschBlackwell report, released 9/27 & removed 9/30 for further redaction after outcry has not been re-released by @The_ACNA Provincial Office, despite daily requests.

It has been missing for 112 days.

The only way to read it? @ACNAtoo.

acnatoo.org/acnatoo-news/r…
There has been no public communication about the end date of the other investigation into spiritual abuse ("ecclesiastical abuse of power") in @MidwestAnglican by @TeliosLaw, nor conclusions drawn via @The_ACNA's Principal Investigative Team or @ArchbishopFoley's recommendations.
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Dec 16, 2022
Yesterday I sat, muscles tensed, breath held, heart racing.

"I find the defendant... guilty."

I felt the tension begin to melt away, so long overdue.

Someone in authority believed this little girl's words. Help & protection had finally arrived.

Mark cannot harm anymore.
But we must sit with the fact that support could have come from @MidwestAnglican leaders some 3.5 years ago.

Instead, the girl and her family were increasingly left alone, or worse, opposed.

Fr. Rand York received the first disclosure. He did not believe. (HB pp. 24-25)
.@MidwestAnglican Chancellor Charlie Philbrick described the allegations as "hard to believe." (HB p. 24)

He advised no one in leadership to notify authorities.

He provided legal aid to child sexual abuser & @MidwestAnglican lay catechist Mark Rivera.
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Dec 2, 2022
I am not welcome at @ChurchRez. They see me as "suspicious" because I challenge their narrative.

They refuse to contend with facts.

I am not welcome at @ChurchRez, but my family is still experiencing the consequences of leaders withholding information from their congregants.
Long after @ChurchRez knew of allegations - AND CONFESSIONS - of member Chris Lapeyre's inappropriate relationship with teenagers, I was invited to have my teenager join an English class being taught at his home.

I knew nothing because leaders SAID NOTHING.
When we were brand new at @ChurchRez, a priest introduced my family to another family to help us find community.

He failed to tell us that the husband was REMOVED PERMANENTLY from CHILDREN'S MINISTRY roughly 14 yrs ago.

My children spent four years at that man's home.
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Nov 25, 2022
I was told by multiple people that at @ChurchRez's 11/10 meeting, Bp. Stewart Ruch stressed numerous times the separation between @greenhousemove church plant Christ Our Light Anglican Church (COLA) and @ChurchRez.

That is misleading for many reasons.

First, as a @ChurchRez member, I saw COLA member Chris Lapeyre so often at @ChurchRez that I thought he was a member of @ChurchRez. He played guitar frequently on @ChurchRez's worship team.
COLA's Fr. Rand York had been very involved at @ChurchRez for many years. Even after leaving to lead at COLA, Fr. York sang Don Francisco's He's Alive at @ChurchRez's annual Easter Vigil. It had become a tradition that many of us looked forward to each year.
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Nov 16, 2022
"Someone on staff reported the mother's allegations to the authorities."

I heard this from every single @ChurchRez congregant I spoke with last fall. I heard it from clergy. I heard it from @MidwestAnglican members in Minnesota.
But here's the thing: by mid-fall, the mother had requested records for her daughter from every possible authority source.

The only call logged was hers.

Carrying these two dissonant *facts* was weighty.
.@ACNAtoo published the truth. Very quickly the rumor morphed.

"Staff didn't need to report because a parent did."
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Oct 30, 2022
I was driving home recently and, as has become the norm, my mind was carrying the pain I have watched individuals suffer at the hands of @The_ACNA.

Glancing out the window, I saw a small squirrel. It had just been hit by a vehicle and was writhing helplessly. Its end wasnear.
I knew in that instant that the victims I hold dear have suffered like this in the hands of powerful leaders. They were powerless, and the harm inflicted on them caused deep, life-altering wounds.

I gave my all to get them to leaders whom I thought would help.

They did not.
I have come to learn, however, that the job of the advocate is not so much to rescue as it is to remain present with - yes, even to join - the victim on their cross.

We die together.

And we also rise together.
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