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Whitney Evans Harrison
@Wevans0987
product development, publishing | new(ish) parent | knows more Ñoldorin genealogies than your average midwestern mom | #ACNAtoo advocate
Dec 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
I have come back to this truth so often in the last year and a half. "Just let the justice system do it's thing" is what we're told over and over again as a critique for speaking publicly. The issue with that? Court deals with the aftermath, not the cause.
1/7 If your plan is to just rely on the justice system to "fix" the abuse that happened on your watch, then what what you're telling us is you're fine with maintaining a culture and system in which abuse was able to take root and flourish.
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Nov 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Just a reminder that Bp. Minns (who @ArchbishopFoley has put on duty to chaperone Bp. Ruch after his return) was already involved in supervising another @The_ACNA response to clergy abuse as an interim bishop.

Spoiler: it did not go well.🧵 (1/5)
acnatoo.org/pittsburgh/our… He challenged the survivors' narrative at their first meeting, despite their stories having previously been confirmed by an investigation, and refused to discuss how their stories would be shared publicly to the parish.
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Nov 1, 2022 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Ah shit, this is going to be a whole thread isn't it... Ok, you know what? Let's go. 🧵

The arrival of the Noldor in Beleriand sets the stage for all of this. You have some of the original inhabitants (Thingol/Sindar) establishing the groundwork expectations re their home:
1/20 Image The other princes of the Noldor (esp the sons of Fëanor) respond with anger at the perceived coldness when they expected to be welcomed as conquering/liberating heroes. Instead, they are rightly seen as posing an additional threat to the freedom and autonomy of the Sindar.
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Sep 12, 2022 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
Since it seems unlikely we'll get a course-correction on this oath in #TheRingsOfPower, here's a thread I've wanted to do for awhile now about why Finrod's oath of sacrifice mattered for the outcome of the whole 1st Age.

Buckle up, this is one of my absolute favorite topics:
🧵 Thesis: the 1 Silmaril wrested from Morgoth w/o direct intervention of the Valar is only acquired b/c another oath from the doomed House of Finwë is fulfilled that serves as a counter-balance to the Oath of Fëanor.

So let's do some oath analysis:
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Apr 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Helen's comparison here has stuck with me ever since I first read it when she submitted her pieces for publication. What does it say about us as Christians when we vocally limit our care to only those "within" our circles? Where is our love of neighbor? Does Christ's love stop at the doors of your church foyer?
Apr 25, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Helen is one of the most thorough, detailed, and conscience-driven people I have had the honor of speaking with. I'm so incredibly thankful to her for speaking out and detailing her experience on the @MidwestAnglican Bishop's Council: "If the church had always known that nobody from it actually reported this incident, then why was the message that 'we had done the right thing — we had reported this to the officials' the one that was trumpeted loudly for most of 2021, two years after these events took place?" Image
Jul 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The assertion here that Rez is tangential is nonsense. a) Rez is Stewart's seat and a large percentage of those involved in handling the abuse investigation are there
b) To quote: "seven of the victims were attending Church of the Resurrection at the time they were victimized (4 of whom were Rez youth).
Jul 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting that within two weeks of the public becoming aware of their mishandling, @ChurchRez is able to put out a full list of resources, but sat on these for two years when they knew there were more potential victims in their church. #acnatoo
churchrez.org/resources-for-… ...despite survivors and their advocates having been pleading for them to provide resources of this kind from the very beginning.
Jul 6, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This whole 🧵 that Brian put together is worth your time. But this & the tweets following really stood out to me as I'm remembering countless instances when we attended @ChurchRez and the Bp would extemporaneously burst into "a word from God" during the middle of many services. Mostly these were unconnected almost stream of consciousness tangents mid-prayer & reminded me of the tools in trade of charlatan mediums in Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers novels - pick a vague claim that will almost certainly hit home with multiple people in the congregation.
Jul 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Since reading this thread, I keep coming back to one line in this email: "Protocol should be developed out of an understanding of these patterns and fundamental changes in thinking and culture." Why? Because @MidwestAnglican chose culture over victims.
Culture, for both @MidwestAnglican and @ChurchRez has become an idol. RezCulture, as I've heard it called, is something glorified and revered as an integral part of how church is done. It is joked about and used as a punchline, but it undergirds how the whole system operates.