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Marissa Franks Burt
@MBurtwrites
Storybound & Stardust series | The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Gen of Eva Families (2025) | Also find me @lectionaryhome
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Mar 13 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
From the beginning, it’s never been good for men to be alone. But somehow many of us still insist on male-only ordinands, pastors, or leaders. 🧵 From Eden, the pattern appears to be men and women together as priests and prophets doing priestly work as living icons who reflect God’s image. Many churches, however, have inverted this, impoverishing the church by functionally withholding and muffling the witness of women. 2/
Feb 18 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
When I saw the priest swipe the Ash Wednesday cross on my baby’s forehead, I cried.

“Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return,” the priest said, and I looked at my round-cheeked, bobble-headed, newly-born gift, and I was terrified. 🧵 Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash He will die one day, I thought, and the simple truth of the human condition quickened inside me.

I spent one January in the hospital with that child when he was gravely ill, and, for a time, the doctors didn’t know how to diagnose him. 2/
Feb 17 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
As always, it's a good idea for ACNA ppl to read through @ArlieColes' meticulous documentation.

You may think this is a non-issue, but Title IV impacts how allegations against *bishops* will be adjudicated, so here's how I see it mattering, but I'd love to hear from others too🧵 I always encourage ppl to review their *diocesan* canons b/c that is where you are going to find info re: training your clergy receives & how concerns in your parish will be handled.

This advice still holds. Find out if your diocese cares about a trauma-informed framework.+
Feb 17 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Glad to see this panel @The_ACNA

Cancel-culture efforts & demands for apologies leave me wondering: is the goal to get any initiative that tackles sexism/misogyny cancelled?

B/c if ppl can't even hear those words w/out melting down, it only shows how much we need this panel🧵 Over the yrs, countless people have contacted Bp Dobbs about the online behavior of Fr. Matt Kennedy.

I myself have done it publicly in the past. ⬇️

And I'm doing it again today, b/c I hope the province won't bend to cancel culture. 2/

Jan 3 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Another round of the worst @The_ACNA question game: is it episcopal incompetency, bishops behaving badly, or some combo of the two?

Seems like leaders being “above reproach” should be more important in a denomination that claims to value biblical authority 🧵 I’ve already seen knee jerk defenses: This-isn’t-true-Bp-Dobbs-denies-it or I-know-he’s-a-good-guy or ppl-making-claims-are-bad.

I’ll take them each in turn but, guys, can we reflect: Why is it so hard to find ACNA leaders w/unquestionable integrity? +
Dec 23, 2025 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
How is this not a conflict of interest?

I find it impossible to believe Bp Hawkins never tried to shape Weber's opinion.

Why? B/c Alan DMed me, a random layperson, disclosed confidential things over the course of 4 phone calls, & was displeased when I did not comply. 🧵 I began writing publicly about this in summer 2021. After my first FB post, Bp Alan DMed me w/reassurances & an invitation to talk.

I was surprised—I didn't know Bp Alan but wanted to use what access I had to advocate for the province to call in qualified external help. 2/
Dec 20, 2025 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Y'all, I am not a fan of AI. But I wanted to know the percentage of words devoted to Ruch's actions, narrative capture, provincial processes, and witness testimony.

It broke it down for me & offered some interesting prompts. Make of it what you will. 🧵 Image
Image Here's the breakdown: structure of the document is procedurally dominated, which AI suggests has implications of institutional protection & desire to emphasize procedural correctness. 2/ Image
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Dec 20, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It is mind-boggling to me that anyone would read these charges & be like, you know what, I think it's really important to tell the victims & those pastorally tending them that their online jokes are in poor taste. 🧵 Image
Image Worrying about offending somebody w/my tone would not even make the very last page of my very long list of things to care about if a trusted leader at my church had abused my 9YO or groomed my teen or raped my friend or anything adjacent to these allegations. 2/
Dec 19, 2025 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
"Spiritual orphans. Exvangelicals. Estranged children of the church. I can think of many descriptors for the displaced and hurting Christians who are navigating moral injury, church betrayal, and the institutional inability to hold errant leaders accountable." 🧵 Image This week, my denomination, the Anglican Church in North America, after bungling a 4+ years investigatory process into allegations against a bishop, released a summary of their ruling of “not guilty on all counts.” 2/
Dec 18, 2025 • 29 tweets • 5 min read
Some ppl seem to want to tell me why I'm angry about the @The_ACNA ecclesiastical trial

Guys, I've been angry for years. Question is: why aren't you angry?

I am *embarrassed* and *scandalized* at the incompetence on display w/the trial & I'll tell you some reasons why 🧵 The trial court scolded advocates & ppl bringing presentments; that supercilious framing resembles the leadership immaturity that has categorized the @The_ACNA every step of the way.

It's the point of the trial to investigate.
Dec 17, 2025 • 43 tweets • 13 min read
Organizing my thoughts/observations in this thread.

In short: this reads like the perhaps predictable church family system version of "but we did the best we could," where parents/leaders want to be judged by their good intentions rather than the harmful impact.

🧵 I perceive a lot of "mistakes were made" vibes, e.g. the structures were in formation, there wasn't standardization, things were growing, etc.

Okay and also: that is a failure of leadership. That is the building the plane while flying it ethos writ large. Who will own this? 2/
Oct 28, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New excuse incoming⬇️

Imagine being on Twitter & not recognizing humor.

ACNA ppl: It's okay to tell the truth. When news about Ruch first dropped, most ACNA insiders didn't want to believe it. I know I didn't.

Easier to blame survivors & ppl calling for accountability. 🧵 Image It's laughable to watch the anti-tone police crew fault @acnatoo for telling wry jokes on twitter.

Insiders also weighed advocates up on the scales of ideological purity tests & found them wanting.

Not pure enough to do the advocacy work insiders didn't care to prioritize.
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Oct 28, 2025 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
I will give this attention.

ACNA clerics maligned ACNAtoo starting in 2021 in their facebook group.

@ACNAtoo didn't release a statement on serving LGBTQ+ survivors until 2023.

See timestamps in Audrey's thread & a few more in mine.⬇️ Image
Image Much of the vitriol stemmed from pre-existing hatred for C4S0.

This dynamic continues to this day even though in 2021 every diocese scrambled to learn from C4S0, one of the only dioceses to have safeguarding/response policies in place. 2/ Image
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Oct 23, 2025 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I am upset that @The_ACNA seems incapable of taking integrity & accountability in its leaders seriously.

The College of Bishops have been so undiscerning as to elect a man whose clergy & staff had raised serious concerns.

How is that even possible? 🧵 Is it that bishops can’t envision their colleagues disqualifying themselves?

Is it that they don’t bother to talk to the clergy under a candidate’s care before electing him?

(See my concerns about secret conclave LARPing back in 6/24) 2/ Image
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Aug 11, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I've read scores of eva parenting books over the past 2 yrs, & so many of them carry theological role-plays involving PSA & "liturgized" spanking.

One reason I think Christians have such a death grip on "spanking" is b/c of distorted theologies & fear of losing them. 🧵 This can look like: seeing children as "vipers in diapers," beliefs that a diagnosing all misbehavior via a sin lens is "shepherding a child's heart," & telling parents to spank "on faith" b/c God wants them to.

It's so 💔b/c it often leads to shipwrecked faith. 2/ Image
Jul 26, 2025 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Maybe I will say a bit more b/c it is not right or wise the way chaotic episcopal supervision (or its lack) combined e/ a push for church in “Anglican 1000” & “Always Forward”🧵 An obvious example of how irresponsible & dangerous this is: the catalyzing event for the Ruch trial.

A poorly supervised church plant w/irregular lay catechists, clergy who had no clue how to respond to abuse disclosures & inadequate safeguarding. 2/
Jul 25, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Seeing chatter about @The_ACNA stances on women's ordination. ACNA constitution allows for dioceses (groups of parishes under leadership of a bishop) to decide this.

Here are latest numbers from annual congregational reporting. 🧵/5 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… In short: a small number (7 dioceses/18k members) do not allow women as deacons or priests, and a vast majority (21 dioceses/85k members) ordain women to diaconate.

Of those, 11 dioceses/74k members (so slight majority in province) ordain women to priesthood. 2/
Jul 25, 2025 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Let's also talk about the theology hidden here: "no fussing" is huge in some corners of Christianity& reveals a view of a detached & disinterested God.

Sleep-training, blanket training, insta-obedience all reinforce this idea of expected cheerful compliance.🧵 Doug Wilson recommends letting infants cry alone to learn "man is born to trouble."

Gary Ezzo cites "My God, My God why have you forsaken me" as justification for cry-it-out sleep training: "Praise God that the Father did not intervene when His son cried out on the cross." 2/
Jul 21, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
"Witnesses from the US & Canada have voluntarily provided testimony & others were scheduled to do so had this trial continued. Hundreds of hours have been spent by both parties, witnesses & the Court to see that justice prevails..." Provincial Prosecutor Runyan.
💔tallying.
🧵 The witnesses & ppl on the court, join survivors, advocates & countless other volunteers who wait for functional processes.

Their work has once again been displaced by Bp Ruch being "focused on information about the investigative process" (from Runyan's letter). 2/ Image
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Jul 18, 2025 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Saw a post where @DennyBurk incidentally dehumanizes two children in his ire at Chip & Joanna.

Moralistic litmus tests are revealing.

I’ve never seen Christian concern re: normalization of consumption, discontentment & greed on display in home reno shows. 🧵 I’ve not seen discussion of how this forms idolatrous souls to expect luxury when so many go without food & clothing.

Disappointed fans seem capable of overlooking that as well as the fact that many unmarried couples on the show were cohabitating. 2/
Jun 5, 2025 • 34 tweets • 8 min read
“God hit me upside the head with a 2X4.” I’ve heard this sentiment, accompanied by commiserating laughter, in numerous sermons, often delivered with self-deprecating humor, much like its cousins: “Sometimes God needs to give us a spanking!” or “Jesus took my licking for me. 🧵 Image The idea seems to be: God deals that way with His children, so surely human parents should as well. But is that true? Is that the way God deals with His children? 2/