I think it’s fine to have a variety of policy stances about the student loan relief/reform.
But the correct POSTURE toward other people who may not suffer under the burden of impossibly difficult debt, for believers in Jesus, is not bitterness or jealously.
It’s just not.
@JohnFugelsang
@Young77Me
The Pauline teachings on the subject are a commentary on the Roman practice of pederasty where a more powerful male would sexually exploit a less powerful male, and therefore don't speak to loving, committed LGBT relationships. Have a nice day!
Why do cult experts say that Scientology is the most dangerous cult?
One of the main reasons is how Scientology is taught to its members.
Listen to this short clip from our podcast to learn about Scientology word clearing.
Full Episode Here:
NOT. THE. FIRST. TIME. do you hear yourself???
@SlowToWrite
, please tell us what your FOUR-MONTH-OLD son can do to deserve discipline. Or describe the discipline tactics. Otherwise, enjoy those millstones.
Scientology is not a punchline. It is an abusive cult that has traded on favors from the Los Angeles communitiy. Follow
@LeahRemini
and fuck Tom Cruise.
To say the relationship between LAPD and Scientology is inappropriate is an understatement.
In a Scientology video last month, LAPD Captain Yasir Gillani said:
“Everything the Church of Scientology does is great and above”
If you were fleeing Scientology, would you trust LAPD?
Well. Finished "The Secrets of HIllsong" and there is a lot to parse. But my immediate thought (aka broken record stance) is that Christians HAVE TO STOP ACTING LIKE SCIENTOLOGISTS
On Wednesday, a Los Angeles Judge sanctioned two of Danny Masterson's defense attorneys for handing over criminal discovery to Scientology and its attorneys.
Jen B aka Jane Doe
#1
, who was raped by Masterson, just sent me this statement in reaction to the decision.
.
@KamalaHarris
shares that her best friend in high school was being molested by her father. She went on to specialize in child sexual assault cases as a prosecutor.
If you want to see "MI7: 1.5", please consider 1) waiting a week to avoid this film making a killing on opening weekend. Any success of TC's directly fuels Scientology propaganda. Top Gun's success last year was a major marketing tool for Scientology.
Scientology is a tax-exempt organization that is ultimately in the service of two men: David Miscavige and Tom Cruise.
They get all the power and perks while ordinary Scientologists, especially Sea Org members (the workforce), suffer.
I know the next step of the playbook. He will say that he cannot disclose specific allegations for privacy reasons. On the surface, this is the correct course of action. But women have seen this deflection tactic time & time again.
This is gossip.
First he bore false witness; then he used unequal weights and measures (saying he's qualified to hear Josh out but not me); and now he's spreading gossip.
Making an accusation that I cannot respond to is gossip.
@wartwatch
Crocodile tears. The singular mention of Jesus and God was vague. The abuse is minimized. The elder didn't mention that Cindy was 12 years old. Saved marriages was so important. It's a playbook.
@bethallisonbarr
@butlerjosh
@sheilagregoire
When Evangelical culture has been indoctrinated into rampant anti-intellectualism...sadly, it does have to be said. And it still might not be enough.
Thank you as always for advocating tirelessly for the victims of this destructive cult. Yashar is an example of someone who has not been a member of an institution but can listen, learn and research to use their voice to advocate. And has paid a hefty price.
@kkdumez
I mean, letting/being supportive of your kid deciding their hair color as a teen is SUCH a low-stakes way to show confidence in their decision-making as burgeoning adults. My parents were GREAT about this...even if they knew I might regret the photographic evidence later.
LAPD has a LOT to answer for. Once again, I am so grateful for
@yashar
,
@MikeRinder
,
@LeahRemini
, & SO many others who have raised their voices at significant personal cost.
1. NEWS
On Monday, I reported that the LAPD had met with a woman identifying herself as Shelly Miscavige and a Scientology attorney. During that meeting, just days after
@LeahRemini
had filed her missing person's report, they took the woman's fingerprints.
However, the LAPD
@lecrae
@MattChandler74
Any comment on
@bbtbpod
's report that a child sex offender, MAtt Chandler's father, was allowed to remain on staff at the Denton campus?
To my beloved advocates and friends. Carissa has done the hard work this weekend. She needs a break. Please DM me or other advocates for direction on ways you can be helpful in supporting abuse victims. Let her rest.
This is a CHILD made in the Image of God. Woe to you who can justify this act as anything other than a brutal murder. With adult authority accomplices.
1. If you constantly ask, "why isn't anyone doing anything about Scientology?"
Here's your chance to make a difference.
In this photo, on the left, you have Scientology exec Shane Woodruff who was my "handler" when I was a Scientologist and LA City Councilman
@mitchofarrell
@_nomadic_soul
One of my seminary professors did a lesson on how "God is Bigger than the Boogie Man" is applicable to the things we are supposed to "fear" as Christians in the world. Truly lovely.
@philvischer
Mark and Jacob Iskander. You will not be forgotten. Nancy Iskander, who bravely testified multiple times after she witnessed the death of her sons. You deserved so much better, and I hope you feel some sort of relief.
What Hillsong College did with its students is basically Scientology auditing. Hopefully without the cameras...but I don't have a lot of faith at this point
@watchkeep
I feel very uneasy about the use of "mental health" in the context of "inappropriate actions" (re: Cross Timbers). the language is getting bolder and bolder.
So grateful for Tim Walz and his embodiment of masculinity in ways that are tender, smart, and badass. This is a speech for the ages. But I am NOT going to ignore that right before Tim, the
#DNCConvention2024
platformed a signifier of toxic masculinity in Bill Clinton.
Megachurch has strip-show-like performance at men’s conference. Guest speaker Mark Driscoll spoke out against it and was kicked off stage.
Unbelievable that any church would allow this. Reason
#538
not to attend a megachurch.
#ChristIsKing
@pearlythingz
@sovereignbrah
@scrowder
Well, still no word from
@MattChandler74
and
@villagechurchtx
. I started asking questions on social posts. I encourage you to do the same (and save those screenshots).
Sheila, Becca & Johanna have researched where men have theorized or theologized. The Evangelical anti-intellectualist streak is a deadly, fatal cancer.
@KatelynBeaty
The kindest thing for them to flourish in Christ is to NOT return them to the platform. If one has abused the power once, it feels cruel to get them back into a cycle of sin again. But, I would need their victims, not sycophants in Big Eva, to feel confident in their repentance.
I am exactly 4 pages into
#celebritiesforjesus
by
@KatelynBeaty
and her incisive, fact based commentary meets the current moment. Grateful to be on this launch team.
@jenlyell
you don't owe anyone anything. you have told your story time and time again at great personal cost. if someone doesn't want to hear it, that is on them. please do what you have to do for healing.
I just watched
@bartbarber
publicly mock funding sexual abuse reform within the SBC with monopoly money. If the Israelites were stiff-necked, we’re tone-deaf to all the ways we continue to hurt sexual abuse survivors. The SBC is a white washed tomb.
Hey, does anyone know what is happening at Austin Stone w/ Aaron Ivey's sexual abuse allegations? A lot is happening, & I'm grateful God is bringing so much to light. But I don't want to forget his victims.
@AmyEBurdett1
I am Jenna. I live in Los Angeles. I have a Masters in Christian Practices from
@DukeDivinity
and graduated Summa Cum Laude. Considering a PhD.
@edgykristina
How many dates? My rule is "3 dates if the guy seems decent and has no obvious red flags." Why this rule? A friend said to me, "If you give a TV show you aren't sure you are into 3 episodes before you DNF, you might want to apply that rule to your dating life."
#convicted
So I will neeeeever understand the assertion
#carllentz
is hot, but this line: "Maybe the problem isn’t hot pastors like Lentz but a toxic megachurch culture that makes narcissism a prerequisite." is a mic drop.
They won’t stop until Scientology ends or I’ll die.
Once you’re labeled an enemy of Scientology it’s a lifelong sentence.
In fact, it’s even longer than that…they still have attack websites up against people who have died.
Pastor laments women wearing shorts, then says: "If you dress like that & you get raped & I'm on the jury, he's going to go free...because a man's a man."
Yes, a man is a man--not an animal. And HE is responsible for controlling himself. This pastor needs to resign.
@emmkick
The Last Duel is an underrated movie to be sure. I really loved it. But The Assistant with Julia Garner is actually what was truly overlooked.
@liquidseahorse
@anniefdowns
The comparison of different groups doesn't negate that what happened in DC yesterday was a racist act, no matter the perpetrator. This song and dance about who is "less" Christian is unhelpful at best & damaging to our witness at worst.
How many of those stained glass windows - "Conservative Resurgence heroes" - were really enablers, cover-uppers or perpetrators of sexual abuse? Pressler, Patterson, Charles Stanley, Jerry Vines, Ed Young, Morris Chapman, Frank Page, Johnny Hunt, Ronnie Floyd.
#ThisistheSBC
1/2
@hoopersnook
@ChristaBrown777
@TGC
The
@TGC
article is objectively ridiculous. It's a gut punch. And affirms that for a faction of White Evangelical men, women are just glorified porn stars/ sex toys. No care is given to the female experience.
90 seconds. When it comes to emotional, verbal, sexual abuse, or assault, that is MORE than enough time to inflict catastrophic harm. Patrick & others, ou have NO idea what it is like to be a woman in this space.
As I am devouring
@KatelynBeaty
's
#celebritiesforjesus
, I keep thinking about the adage that celebrities stop maturing past the age that they became "famous".I think we are seeing the fruit of that in how many "celebrity" figures have fallen or how they treat others on social.
@TheHunts
So in anticipation of you saying you are being "canceled" or "persecuted", that is not that. You are being held accountable by sisters & brothers in Christ about why one of your fully adult male members who, at age 29, met a 15-year-old GIRL.
@AndrewJEisenman
@KSPrior
I mean, as a survivor myself, whatever she said would have been picked apart and ripped to shreds to be remolded to their own narrative. It's not "truth in love" as it is when their likeminded speak harshly; it is hysteria or vulgarity.
I wonder if some of the same people who were upset at the Opening Ceremonies will be upset that we are platforming the frontman of an abusive cult at the Closing Ceremonies?
@JenlHuff
@PatrickKMiller_
Per an earlier argument, I have a minuscule follower count. I am NOT in this for fame, outrage Twitter or whatever. But I can also tell you that as an abuse survivor, reading Josh Butler's book sent me into a state of stress vomiting that I have not experienced in 10 years.
@JenlHuff
So
@PatrickKMiller_
, I want to trust your desire for truth over tribe. Your actions in the last week have proven otherwise. I speak for MANY women who have been blown off time & time again only to be dismissed as "angry", "loud", or "hysterical".
I am heartbroken for this 17-year-old GIRL. She deserves so much better from the adults in her life.
The brave stories shared here indicate that it is not just a bad apple or two. Grooming rebranded as "courtship" is widespread in Christian circles.
@joshmrowley
I just want my dear friends, as someone who was once VERY rigid that this was a false gospel, to sit for a week, read the Gospels, pray through them & think about this tweet. Bring your questions to God. Ignore your impulse to lean on your own intelligence.
@SethL_intheWord
@mcoleyyy
Patrick in Schitt's Creek, Harrison Ford in Shrinking, Harrison Ford in the deeply unnecessary sequel Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ewan McGregor in Obi Wan
Many of you might say, "Well the family wanted privacy" or "They didn't want to overshadow the convention", etc. I would have too once upon a time. The SBC leaders didn't want to choose between honoring or condemning him at
#SBC24
because they are cowards through & through.
There is no shred of the heart of God in anything done by
@SBCExecComm
@bartbarber
@Lifeway
and many others. You have disregarded the will of the messengers. through clever legal loopholes. Woe to you all.
Hannah Kate reported her abuse to a lifeway employee
LifeWay instigated the brief against Samantha Killary
Mohler got on board because HK has stuff on him.
EC got in board because Lol they hate survivors
They twisted Bart's arm last minute. The brief had been out 6 months.
Former President Bill Clinton is set to speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention.
A source familiar with his speechwriting process tells me that Clinton threw his speech away the night before last and started from scratch.
Listening to
@FaithUntangled
about the abuse, corruption, & drift from the heart of Jesus that
@RamseySolutions
&
@DaveRamsey
have perpetuated. An essential companion to The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill, even more important since
@amyfritz
has nothing to "finesse" in her reporting.
TX megachurch pastor Josh Howerton has apologized for a “joke” that many said perpetuated “harmful” tropes about sex & women.
But
@HowertonJosh
failed to mention he told the identical joke 3 yrs ago & was confronted about it by a congregant and a visitor