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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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Jul 26 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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/
Jan 22 • 41 tweets • 10 min read
Tripp's book "Shepherding A Child's Heart" is full of problematic theology & the prosperity gospel parenting promises @ostrachan decried in yesterday's post

Yet it is STILL recommended widely to parents. I've done a chpt by chpt deep dive youtube.com/watch?v=34aOPG…

But let's 🧐
🧵 x.com/ostrachan/stat… Titular thesis of SACH rests on parental responsibility & presumed ability to go deeper than shaping behaviors & into a godlike rearrangement of a child’s heart.

Stowaway anthropological & theological claims rest on a primary & ever-present theme: children are full of sin. 2/
Jan 6 • 40 tweets • 7 min read
This went viral right before Christmas & had me thinking how evangelical expectations re: family relationships set the stage for future disappointment.

Holidays where ppl are left asking: Why is this so difficult? How did things turn out this way? 🧵 Image .@kkramermcginnis & I explore some of these dynamics in our forthcoming book The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, but here I want to consider the implications of the so-common-we-barely-notice-it framing that parenting can secure spiritual & even eternal outcomes. 2/
Dec 20, 2024 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Let's pick up where we left off.

Look over there at the Mount of Olives. Do you see that company of weeping ppl—barefoot King David, 600 of his men & most of the royal court? The mighty man Ittai? They have left the city before Absalom returns.

That scent on the air? 🧵 Sacrifices, offered by Abiathar the priests as Zadok leads the Levites and the ark after David.

But David sends the ark back. This carries hints of the old David, the one who wouldn't raise his hand against God's anointed Saul.

David doesn't know if his rule is over. 2/
Dec 18, 2024 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
Delighted to see responses from ppl being like: I'm going to pick up my Bible again! For real, though, QT thread only captures a sliver of the political intrigue at play.

1/2 Samuel & books of Kings & Chronicles read like a game of thrones. 🧵 David's sons are ofc vying for the throne & 2 Sam weaves these political machinations together in ways we sometimes just read right over.

The storyteller takes us almost directly from Bathsheba/Uriah story to Amnon/Tamar (not coincidentally; this is to show the parallels). 2/
Dec 9, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
I find it so poignant to consider how the same Mary who offers her iconic "yes" to God later comes with Jesus' brothers to take Him home, because they all think He's lost His mind. 🧵 Colors by Brittany Richardson & pencils by Brian Gage Mothers testify: you don't forget the details of birthing a new human being into the world.

We get an abridged version of Mary’s recollections on pgs of gospels—treasured details alongside other mysterious, wonder-full moments: magi & shepherds & aged prophets in the temple. 2/
Nov 19, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Harmful Christian parenting has generational impact.

Where might Doug Wilson have learned that “Discipline must by painful...God has required us to inflict pain on those who are dear to us” (Federal Husband)? 🧵 “When I was a child, my father delivered 3 rules to me...I also remember where I was standing in the front yard when he delivered them to me, & I remember the fond & affectionate demeanor with which he delivered it (he had a fist in front of my face)....” Douglas Wilson 2/
Sep 30, 2024 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
If deconstruction is a necessary stage of faith formation 🔗⬇️, why is it that Christian parents (& pastors in faith families) speak so negatively about it?

Probably many reasons, but b/c I've been reading so many Christian parenting resources, I want to talk about one 🧵 Many frameworks give little space for questions/differentiation. Parents cultivate & expect right-away-all-the-way-compliance. This may “work” when children are small but leaves parents uniquely ill-equipped to navigate relationships w/teens & adults. 2/
Aug 6, 2024 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
A 🧵on the necessity of deconstruction:

As I analyze various Christian resources, I often think about the ppl who lived them. What was it like to parent according to the suggested principles? To be a child “trained up” by them? A family spiritually formed by them? Recently finished chpt-by-chpt examination of Don’t Make Me Count to Three, a practical application of Shepherding A Child’s Heart. Both offer a nouthetic/ACBC approach to parenting—spiritual micromanagement of thoughts, behaviors, & hearts. 2/youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Jul 12, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I am finishing my reread of Martha Peace’s “The Excellent Wife” today, and as I was describing it to a friend she sent me the song that could’ve been written for it.

Try hard. And then harder. This book is peppered with “should” and “responsibility” and “sinfulness.” 1/5 If it works, your efforts were by grace alone. If it doesn’t work, be satisfied that you were righteous while you suffer needlessly. If you don’t like it, you have a sin issue.

On pg. 150 describes churches teaching “older women how & what to teach the younger women…” 2/5
Jun 21, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine expecting ppl who have been waiting for responses re:@ACNAtoo for 3+yrs to give any ACNA leader the benefit of the doubt at this point.

Stating what a bishop has chosen to do≠malice. 🧵/6 If @The_ACNA leaders don't want ppl to assume an ACNA bishop is silencing survivors & muffling a clergyperson...they should not take actions that silence survivors & muffle clergy. 2/6
Jun 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@GroyperFriend Imagine expecting ppl who have been waiting for responses re: #acnatoo for 3+yrs to give ACNA leaders the benefit of the doubt at this point.

Walls of silence cut both ways. Not issuing public statements leave ppl filling in the blanks. 1/2 @GroyperFriend If ACNA leaders don’t want ppl to assume an @The_ACNA bishop is silencing survivors & muffling clergy ppl, they should not take actions that silence survivors & muffle clergy.+
Jun 19, 2024 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
My feed: "women can't be at seminaries" + megachurch knew a pastor molested a girl & "restored" him to ministry.

Christians telling women their femaleness forever disqualifies them while we cannot find the will to tell a man his behavior has permanently disqualified him.

🤔🧐🧵 Among other things, both of these stances are *unbiblical*. First: excluding women.

Guess who didn't have a problem w/women learning & fully participating in the church?

Early church as seen in the New Testament.

Perhaps these Christians had watched the example of Jesus. 2/
Jun 14, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Lack of HR procedures & communication is a problem at every level of @The_ACNA

Several yrs ago a bishop (not mine) berated me over the phone for writing about @ACNAtoo on socials.

Stunningly inappropriate from anyone let alone bishop to layperson. What was I to do?🧵 Well, nothing, really, b/c there aren't processes.

I could reach out to my own bishop & others who thankfully took me seriously.

It's a luxury many don't have. My privileged position as clergy spouse w/20 yrs of connections bought me credibility. 2/12
May 22, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Thinking about this🧵all day today.

I wonder if this dynamic also relates to way (at the risk of overgeneralization) Christian male leaders may expect to walk into a room & be heard, can expect their words to result in action - that is diff from what many women experience. 🧵/9 Reminds me of Helen’s observations 2 yrs ago. ⬇️

Perhaps a reason women show up more as advocates is b/c we know what it is to be unheard. 2/9 acnatoo.org/acna-witnesses…
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May 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Survivors continue to wait for responses & basic updates on processes as @The_ACNA procedures drag on

Many reasons why continued silence has always been unacceptable, but I will always be stunned by the *pastoral negligence* & passivity of it, esp in light of ordinal vows. 🧵/8
Image Bishops in @The_ACNA are given shepherd's rods to symbolize how they are entrusted with Christ's flock.

Shepherds are to take action: "hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring back the lapsed, and seek the lost."

Ignoring people is not a pastoral option. 2/8