There's a lot I could say about this, but I hope people listen to this new interview with @rachelswilhelm about her album Jeremiah. In it we discuss how one of her songs addresses church leadership abuse... tent-talks.simplecast.com/episodes/bonus…
and the consequences that result when people attempt to address it in their communities, hold people accountable, and protect victims. What happens is they lose their jobs, lose their church communities, become ostracized pariahs...
and then have to endure online surveillance, scrutiny, and attack. Rachel did not know while recording this interview that the same thing was going to happen to her a month later. #churchabuse #churchtoo #acnatoo
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This is what I call irresponsible reporting from @anglicanink Notice their approach, which is typical about how so many speak of the Ruch trial: 1) That the two presentments against him were ONLY about Rivera's case, /1
Have they even read the actual presentments? What about all of the other names mentioned: Moon, LaPeyre, Girard, Matta, Timothy Blackmon, John Hays, and at least 12 others with alleged abuse allegations. Is this how they continually report on Ruch's case in their episodes?! /2
2) Their smug and smirk-filled "virtue signaling" comment mocking & disparaging abuse survivors and their advocates as (I imagine) "woke" pearl-clutching liberals not to be taken seriously, betrays how they really feel about abuse cases in the church. /3
@PatsyMa43110999 @toonstop @PatsyMa43110999 I think your words to me are brilliantly delivered. It's a timely word. I think there are some presumptions present and there are other points you should consider, but a calling to not give in to bitterness and unforgiveness is something I very much need. 1/
@PatsyMa43110999 @toonstop I have been wronged, mistreated, and neglected by men in authority my entire life. So this is an ongoing struggle for me, one I am constantly dealing with in prayer, with a counselor, and in conversation with my friends and mentors. One important factor I have found is /2
@PatsyMa43110999 @toonstop those of who been harmed and abused are the ones most likely to speak up about abuse. So many of my fellow priests and ministers go along with the abuse or are the abusers themselves, but the ones who actually DO choose to speak out more and I'm finding are abuse survivors /3
"Helen's Story: Why I resigned," a new episode of the Wall of Silence podcast, the @ACNAtoo story. Helen served on the Bishop's Council of @MidwestAnglican as the sexual abuse of Mark Rivera was made known by Cherin and Joanna Rudenborg. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-…
Her account details how Bishop Stewart Ruch and the Council dealt with Rivera's abuse and the abuse survivors, how Ruch stepped away from ministry (and why he ultimately returned), and why Helen eventually decided she needed to resign from the Council. open.spotify.com/show/21eGuihR5…
Her's is a story anyone in @The_ACNA, all clergy and laity need to listen to openly and be willing to reckon with. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wall-…
After nearly 3 months delay here is part 2 of Joanna's Story from @ladyjessicahaze for the Wall of Silence podcast, telling the @ACNAtoo story. Give it a close listen b/c (I suppose) this is what provincial leaders in @The_ACNA didn't want people to hear. spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/2e2rUsQrsMb
(I suppose) they don't think individuals and church communities in @The_ACNA need to learn how to recognize the patterns of abusive, sociopathic, and narcissistic people that might be in their midst. But more than that...
I suspect they don't want people in @The_ACNA to see Joanna as a real person. They would prefer she stay the villain—an evil, shady, hypocritical figure trying to take down the Church—rather than be seen as a thoughtful & empathic, someone who has done the work to understand...