exploring the hints and guesses | DThM @Durham_Uni | Burning Word Podcast | Best friends with @weejenbug
Jul 15, 2021 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
I am grateful to stand with @Weejenbug and @ACNAtoo to encourage these stories to continue to be told and heard. Here's what really disappoints me most though about @anglicanchicago and @aarondamiani's response.
Thread 2: Another specific point of concern. When a congregant of abuse expresses discomfort and @StewartRuch "adamantly" insists you continue attending. There are two possible reasons a bishop/rector /pastor would respond this way
The first reason: spiritual pride. You sincerely believe your church to be "the best kind of church" for healing, or to maintain some kind of "distinctiveness" that offers a care no other congregation nearby might.
Jul 8, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Thread 1: I want to zoom in on a particular point. As a pastoral resident at @ChurchRez for two years I can confirm multiple statements said by Katharine Ruch that match the horrifying rumor that reached CM, that KR indicated a “bad home” could dismiss allegations
Katharine Ruch (and therefore @StewartRuch by extension) repeatedly in private dismissed family and parenting models that don’t mirror their own. This creates a toxic elitism and spiritual pride by extension for those who adopt their views.
Jul 6, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
@veni_vidi_ceni has an incredibly insightful thread chronicling how the problem and the hope for scandal/abuse is polity to address failed polity, even as charismatic streams exacerbate the problem.
