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Joanna 🍃 (she/her) Profile picture
@ladyjessicahaze
Feb 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Helpful thread summarizing the now-public presentment against @MidwestAnglican Bp. Stewart Ruch.

QTing with a few clarifications:

1. Bp. Stewart didn’t pressure J.G.’s victim not to go to the police. He just did a lot else wrong.

2. It’s unclear due to the presentment’s…
…passive voice whether Bp. Stewart dictated Fr. Josh Moon’s inadequate discipline. Technically he (Stewart) was on leave so the acting bishop would’ve handed down the punishment. We can surmise that Bp. Stewart had a hand in it, but it’s unclear.

3. It could be inferred from…
…the wording of the first tweet about Chris Lapeyre that Bp. Stewart knew about multiple victims of Chris back in 2015. It is unclear if he knew of more than one unless we assume Fr. Gauthier told him of a second back in 2012ish, but this seems to be as yet unconfirmed.
Those gnats now strained, Bp. Stewart’s defenders will additionally protest that he did not “ice out” Cherin’s family or pressure her to drop the charges against Mark Rivera.

But some of those defenders are the same people who themselves did personally ice out Cherin & family…
…while Bp. Ruch utterly failed to ensure Cherin & family were cared for + approved Fr. Rand York to pressure her into dropping charges + made sure her child’s rapist had excellent pastoral care + greenlit the diocesan chancellor to find said rapist discounted legal counsel.
Anyway. Here’s the full text of the presentment again, so you can just read it for yourself. Normally I don’t amplify this publication but they decided to take the lead on leaking the presentment to the public so I guess here we are lol:

anglican.ink/2024/02/22/tex…

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Dec 19, 2023
#IHOPKCtoo survivors and witnesses:

Think long and hard before participating in an investigation where you can’t see the engagement agreement.

What confidentiality are you guaranteed? How might your information be shared?

See details from the SBC’s 2021 engagement agreement:
Outlined part reads: 2.7 Guidepost’s investigative process will include interviews of survivors, witnesses, and others, as well as reviews of existing and new documentation and evidence. Survivor and witness interviews will be trauma-informed and will offer privacy and confidentiality if desired and permitted by law. The SBC, Task Force, Executive Committee, the Credentials Committee, and members of the aforementioned will not have access to the names of, identifying information about, survivors or witnesses without consent of the survivors or witnesses.
Then ask yourselves: does the IHOPKC-Lathrop agreement guarantee reporting parties’ information will be kept confidential and specifically that it will not be shared with @ihopkc leaders?

This is basic stuff to minimize the risk of retaliation against vulnerable whistleblowers.
Maybe @EricVolz will post the counterpart paragraph from the IHOPKC engagement agreement publicly if you ask nicely for it.

But the thing is, you shouldn’t have to beg @ihopkc for little crumbs of the agreement as you think of concerns. They should just publish the whole thing.
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Nov 17, 2023
Introducing yet another case of the evangelical pastor “struggling with a sex addiction” to “abuse of power and predatory behavior” pipeline.

A breakdown and key takeaways from the latest leak of allegations in the second presentment against @MidwestAnglican Bp. Stewart Ruch: 🧵
Excerpt from article reads: Despite knowledge of this history, including a history of Moon’s admitted sexual addiction, Bp. Ruch would authorize Moon to preach in UMD churches as early as April 2015, and would go on to ordain him to the Anglican priesthood on October 28, 2020, later installing him as rector of a new UMD church plant, Resurrection, in 2021. Members of the church planting team were not informed about Moon’s criminal history. In June 2022, Moon violated the Provincial Canons of the ACNA and his vows of ordination. Moon’s abuse of power and predatory behavior created a situatio...
Former Presbyterian minister Josh Moon disclosed his “history of sexual addiction” and 2013 arrest for soliciting paid sex to Bp. Ruch, who allowed him to preach starting in 2015, ordained him in 2020, and installed him as rector of a new @MidwestAnglican church plant in 2021.
Bp. Ruch didn’t disclose Moon’s arrest and criminal conviction to…anyone, apparently. Not the congregation, and not the church planting team. Excerpt from article reads: Joshua Moon never should have been led to believe he could serve in an ordained role in an ACNA parish. And if that wisdom could not have been discerned after much prayer and consultation, surely a threshold concern for future congregants would have motivated Bp. Ruch enough to inform unsuspecting church-goers of Moon’s past. In that scenario, at least, they would have had all the information needed to make an informed decision and to take personal responsibility for their gambit. But Bp. Ruch never gave Resurrection that opportunity, and that parish is still ree...
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Nov 7, 2023
Since @ihopkc has now hired @stinsonllp to do something or other in light of the allegations against Mike Bickle, let’s talk about three types of investigations into abuse cases, how they differ, and why it matters:

1. Internal
2. Third-party
3. Independent

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1. Internal

Internal investigation = the org investigates itself. Evidently silly. This is the equivalent of a court having an accused party and his friends decide if he’s guilty of a crime and if they’re guilty of aiding and abetting the crime.

10/10 would not recommend.
If an organization says they’re conducting an internal investigation of allegations of abuse (or really of anything), expect this to be basically just a cover-up.

Nobody working for an organization is competent to investigate that organization.
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Sep 20, 2023
Most of the backlash I’ve seen against @ACNAtoo’s Statement of Commitment to LGBTQ+ Abuse Survivors is either blatantly homophobic, willfully obtuse, or laughably obsessed with conspiracy theories.

However, a few people seem perhaps legitimately confused.

So here you go. 🧵
(Fair warning that this thread is long and rather repetitious on some basic points. Tl;dr: maybe you don’t understand @ACNAtoo, or maybe it’s just not your cup of tea; either way, feel free to start your own anti-abuse initiative.)
First of all, if you’re confused about the purpose of this statement’s existence, it’s probably because you’re not its intended audience. It was written primarily for survivors of abuse in the ACNA who also happen to be LGBTQ+.

“LGBTQ+ survivors” means quite literally that.
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Sep 13, 2023
One fascinating part of helping @ACNAtoo publish @steveslagg’s story was discovering a copy of the workbook used in the Redeemed Lives program Steve went through at @ChurchRez in 2009.

Chapter 16 is entitled “Transference” and it is…interesting. 🧵
(Quick note to say the RL workbook I have is copyright 2002, so I’m not sure if it’s identical to the one Steve would’ve used in 2009. Either way, this thread is a deep dive into the philosophical underpinnings of Rez, so 2002 serves as a good entry point.)
I want to dig into this chapter because I think it provides clues to a theme I see running through so many ex-Rez stories:

If you’re having a negative reaction to a church leader, what you need to do is look deeper inside yourself and figure out what’s wrong with YOU.
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Sep 9, 2023
I’ve seen a bit of the predictable commentary pop up since @steveslagg’s story was published:

It was a non-affirming church. Why did he go there in the first place? What did he expect? Why not leave sooner?

Some of y’all have never watched a cult documentary and it shows. 🧵
(“OMG ARE YOU SAYING REZ IS A CULT?” No, I’d probably call it a high-control church, not a cult. Take a breath and keep reading; this is a whole-thread kind of a situation.)
Fortunately I haven’t seen a lot of this discourse yet, but the knee-jerk reactions always hit a personal chord with me because these are the same types of questions people ask about sexual abuse survivors, and I get it but it also gets really, really exhausting.
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