Kristen McKnight
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Christ follower, wife of Scot for 48 years, grandmother of two, clinical psychologist, advocate for wounded resisters.
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I can’t get over the gorgeous color of these robin eggs in a nest in our yard. I don’t think there is a color any prettier.
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Why does anyone go to church to be yelled at like this?
Check out this clip from a recent Mark Driscoll sermon. Notice how uncomfortable his anger and bloodthirstiness for his neighbors’ judgment makes you feel. And ask yourself how your local conservative evangelical church’s theology is any different.
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Lord have mercy. Reading chapters about the sexual abuse that occurred at CJ Mahaney's Sovereign Grace Ministry church(es) in
@sarahstankorb
's book, Disobedient Women. At one point, Josh Harris wanted to acknowledge the mistakes he made. 1)
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Deeply hurtful and tone deaf statement- which is putting it mildly. 👇
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Senator Tammy Duckworth: "The last time I heard rapid gunfire like that was when I was in combat in Iraq." That says it all for me. Ban assault weapons.
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retirement accounts at risk if Covenant Life was found liable."
Wow - how many churches might this apply to?!?
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Anne Lamott: "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better."
When victims of abuse disclose the abuse, they don’t “ruin” the perpetrator’s reputation. The perpetrator ruined THEIR OWN reputation when they committed the act.
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Here's a fun and clever line from Katelyn Beaty's new book Celebrities for Jesus: "When I was a teenager -- sometime after I had acquired the fire but before I had seen you at the pole ..." If you know, you know.
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@emilykmay
"It was really rough for you down there. You did so well. Welcome home." 😢
Isn't that what we want to hear when we stand before Jesus. I do anyway.
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He was talked out of admitting and acknowledging the church's inactions. The church was getting legal advice as follows: "If Harris apologized, we admit liability, putting the church's financial standing, ability to secure loans maintain property, and pastor's 2)
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Oh good grief.
Owen thinks God has staked EVERYTHING on men. 🤔
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Beyond grievous. "The prosecutor recommended 72 years in prison. The Judge felt that he was a good Christian and gave him 12." Lord have mercy.
Nothing says "good Christian" like rape & incest. This is Tennessee pastor David Richard's. He was convicted of repeatedly raping his 14-year-old daughter over 4 years.
The prosecutor recommended 72 years in prison. The Judge felt that he was a good Christian and gave him 12.
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Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch or weep this night and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake
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Wow. The PCA rejected the requirement for criminal background checks for new ministers and ministers transferring into the PCA. Make this make sense.
Another REJECTED overture would have required criminal background checks for new ministers and ministers transferring presbyteries or denominations.
Yet more reasons why I am no longer part of the PCA. 2/2
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I can't get this truth from Rick Warren out of my mind:
Rick Warren: To use "world evangelism" as a reason for a cover-up of sexual abuse cases is the ultimate blasphemy.
That is a true and powerful statement.
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This is a beautiful tribute to Tim Keller by a woman who is now journeying toward the Anglican priesthood.
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Oh my goodness. Just watched the first two episodes of "Shiny Happy People." No words other than appalling and grotesque. I have no personal experience in the Bill Gothard or homeschooling worlds- thank God - and these people and systems still make me SO angry.
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Is
@BethMooreLPM
not the very, very best!?! We love you, Beth.
Women of the faith, you get to have your own relationship with Jesus and love him with your whole MIND as well as your heart and soul and you dang well can study theology without permission from a man. This has gotten so bizarre. Go ahead. Knock yourself out with insulting
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Well this is beyond gross. 👇
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.
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Our newly ordained priest, Amanda! It was emotional receiving communion from Amanda.
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But again and again, I watch as women and men who speak out against abuse in evangelical spaces are slandered, mocked, and denounced.
@kkdumez
And called liberal, "woke" etc, as a way to discredit survivors and advocates. Lord have mercy.
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Trump's rhetoric of telling Jack Smith and Biden to "go to hell" and "rot in hell" - are the SBC leaders and theobros still pro-Trump?
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A gorgeous view on a beautiful day at Sleeping Bear Dunes in northern Michigan.
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"If your church is SBC, hear me clearly. If you’re giving a tithe-you are contributing to men fighting against sexual abuse survivors."
@Bec_Shrader
This is the SBC.
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@jacobhuneycutt_
For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, there is a lovely small church in Waco where
@bethallisonbarr
's husband is the pastor.
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Oh oh. Scot just went out to shovel and wore a scarf. Yikes. IYKYK
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"I think the expectations of complementarian churches especially inflicts a slow burning trauma that comes with unique and devastating consequences to women. The men who make theology need to study the impact of their theology."
Shannon Harris' memoir recounts journey from marrying purity culture celebrity Josh Harris to finding herself outside of her marriage & the church
"The female experience & the experience of people who’ve been hurt by churches needs to be heard," she says
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Tim Tebow, an extraordinary woman, gets top billing. 👇
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And now there are four!!! These beautiful robin eggs are bringing me much joy today!
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Read, weep and be angry.
#NEW
More victims of Saturday's mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlet.
Kyu, Cindy, and 3yo James Cho were killed. Only their 6 year old son survived and is recovering in the hospital.
"The family is in deep mourning" according to funding page set up by friends
@wfaa
#AllenTexas
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@aprilajoyr
Not sure of the origin or accuracy of this quote, but it's a good one. "There is a total solar eclipse every 18 months somewhere on the face of the earth. But only the ones over America are prophetic."
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Dr. Alice Mathews, a member of our church but unable to attend since Covid, was at church today! She is a famous scholar and much beloved at our church.
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And can we please have some empathy for families with young children that takes much time and energy to even get to church?
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@BethMooreLPM
@TomBuck
So grievous. Most of us know that Aimee is not to blame for a pastor's infidelity.
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Here's Linda Barnes Popham on CNN, booted out of her SBC church (30 years!) for being a woman. She asks the question I think many of us have, "Why now?"
Linda Barnes Popham, the pastor of Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, on the Southern Baptist Convention ousting her church for having a woman pastor:
“Most of those folks didn't want a dialogue ... One man ... said, 'Your pastor is leading you astray.'”
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@_nomadic_soul
One man out of an elder board of 37 FINALLY stood up for truth. Finally there was one brave man who stands up for victims in this "church." Lord have mercy.
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Talented women who are owed a public apology.
I think what makes me the most angry about
@butlerjosh
and
@PatrickKMiller_
disparaging our research today is that they were actually disparaging two brilliant millennial women, who did this while they were pregnant & postpartum.
Joanna Sawatsky is a brilliant epidemiologist.
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Can't make this stuff up. I enjoyed coffee during worship this morning. Jesus has set us free.
Imagine looking around at all the problems in churches right now and thinking, “Coffee. Coffee is the important thing to address right now.”
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@LucySRAusten
@colinsmo
@kkdumez
@JoelWBerry
Thank you,
@LucySRAusten
for your gracious reply to Colin. You and
@kkdumez
model Christ-like character in your tweets and it matters. Bless you.
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@faithandcoffeee
Exactly. Terrible re the birthing experiences being shown on TV. I wonder what choices the women even had?!?
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This is pure evil.
@bartbarber
, please intervene in this SBC church (High Street Baptist Church) where Senator Mike Moon is a deacon and Sunday School teacher.
There is no moral high ground in defending adults marrying 12-year-olds. Missouri Senator Mike Moon is a deacon & Sunday School teacher at High Street Baptist Church in Springfield MO, a church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
#ThisistheSBC
(thx
@DavidDzimianski
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@ChristaBrown777
@TGC
This is evil and horrendous. The harm
@TGC
is doing to survivors of abuse by publishing this article is despicable.
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Can't make this stuff up. OY
A theology that says a woman can be charged with ABANDONMENT for not obeying her husband's restrictions on her reading material is a theology of self idolization and abuse devoid of all things holy and good.
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Scot has been watching cooking shows and so was inspired to make this beautiful charcuterie plate for New Year’s Day! (Don’t tell the thebros).
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Immigrants look like people made in the image of God.
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They knew. This is the SBC.
Mohler and Pressler
December 2017 - two months AFTER the Rollins case broke
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This. 👇
The fact that Christians aren’t horrified and remain silent with the presence of swastikas in their city is remarkable.
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@goteamcarr
@sarahstankorb
It's just all wrong. Concern for the legalities > concern for victims. This happens all too often.
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Another news story that falls under the category of "you can't make this stuff up."
Jerry Falwell, Jr. announced today that Liberty University is being sued by the Dr. Jerry L. Falwell Family Trust, alleging the university has exploited Dr. Falwell’s trademarked name and image.
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@freedomsbride
And when did it dawn on you (like it did me) that snakes don’t have voice boxes?
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@BethMooreLPM
Amen,
@BethMooreLPM
! I love, love, love your stern words for these misogynists. Like we care what these misogynists think - "I'm entirely unbothered by your opinion."
This is why we need you on twitter!
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OMG. Just finished chap. 7 of
@sarahstankorb
book, Disobedient Women that details the history of
@ChristaBrown777
's story of abuse by Tommy Gilmore and the SBC's response (or rather lack thereof) to her pleas for help. The SBC's response is beyond maddening. Christa is a warrior.
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Love Beth Barr's new book project for which she received a grant - "Left Behind: How Southern Baptists Forgot Medieval History and Why It Matters for Women." Love Beth's historical research and looking forward to this one.
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Love this!
Male university students have walked out of their exam in protest against Taliban’s decision to BAN female students from university education.
Several male professors have also resigned so far.
This must happen across the country NOW!
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Maybe the SBC will listen to
@RickWarren
since they don't seem to listen to women and others who have been saying this over and over and over.
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@JennMGreenberg
One time Mark Galli called my husband because of something I said on twitter. My husband's response to Galli: You can talk directly to her. He never contacted me.
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"Y'all, this is messed up." "I don't ever want to hear another evangelical complementarian talk to me about other people's broken sexual ethics."
Does the author of the article have a book coming out or something??? Is he garnering publicity and attention???
I don’t ever want to hear another evangelical complementarian talk to me about other people’s broken sexual ethics.
Ever.
Y’all, this is messed up.
h/t:
@jacobhuneycutt_
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This response by Steve Fehrman is appalling.
Hi
@bartbarber
Are we to understand, then, that the SBC can disfellowship from Saddleback because they have female pastors, but can do nothing about senior pastor Steve Fehrman publicly speaking to survivors of child sexual abuse by a pastor like this?
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Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work or watch, or weep this night and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake
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Oh wow! Now I am even more proud of Emily Hyland for not signing an NDA at Dane Ortlund's church. More evidence of power and manipulation at this church from Dane and the leaders. Lord have mercy.
I also know that Ortlund's PCA church leadership tried to get Emily Hyland to sign an NDA & refused even to allow her to speak to them about Dane's retaliation against her unless she signed it. She refused.
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Not sure of the origin or accuracy of this quote, but it's a good one. "There is a total solar eclipse every 18 months somewhere on the face of the earth. But only the ones over America are prophetic."
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Sounds like it's time to call child protective services. 👇
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Boz says it like it is. There are many, many others like Franklin Graham. Tim Alberta writes about many of them in his book.👇
@Franklin_Graham
@realDonaldTrump
It no longer surprises me the length so called evangelicals will go in order to stay in bed with this anti-Christ. Why not be honest and admit that there is nothing this godless goon could say or do in which you would condemn him and walk away.
He has become your Jesus.
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@janefortruth
Also, the grooming of the young women being made to feel responsible for the men's behaviors - just stop that already.
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Absolutely horrific, and the harm that he continues to cause is devastating. 👇
“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.”
— John MacArthur
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Oh good Lord, this is horrific. 👇
No. Victims of CSA are not responsible for “covering up”. At all. Under any circumstances but esp in a community where children are punished for not cheerfully complying, punished again for any protest/anger & required to “restore fellowship” w/adults who hurt them. 1/2
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"All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well." Julian of Norwich.
Rest well, friends.
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Thank you,
@pastordmack
for stating this truth so clearly.
"I cannot ... trust a person's theology that concludes that Donald Trump and Jonathan Edwards (who wrote a sermon on the back of a slave receipt...) are saved, but MLK was not... That's White Supremacist theology..." 👇
If you believe Donald Trump is a Christian, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was not…your belief is driven by White Supremacist theology. If you don’t believe MLK’s declaration of returning to his father’s God, was not a declaration of returning to his father’s orthodoxy, then you
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Despicable, evil and against the way of Jesus.👇
Charlie Kirk called compassion for migrants “one of the major moral failings of the American church” and mocked pastors who believe the Bible teaches to welcome migrants with love:
“Deportation can be a very loving thing. Go back to your country of origin.”
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Read, weep and be angry. "The average abuser, it turns out, is a religious adult male in a heterosexual marriage."
"Study after study has found that queer people do not harm children at higher rates than other people. The average abuser, it turns out, is a religious adult male in a heterosexual marriage"
Important work by
@RLStollar
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Agree! 👇
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are the embodiment of how Evangelical Christianity should have always looked like within American politics.
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He worked at Saddleback Church.
This is the SBC. 👇
California megachurch evangelical youth pastor, Ruven Meulenberg, who is currently awaiting a retrial for previous child sex crimes, has been charged with molesting a fourth child.
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Rest in peace; rise in glory Dr. Katherine Koonce.
Just yesterday, I had the great privilege of worshipping with Dr. Katherine Koonce, head of Covenant School. Today, she went to be with the savior she loved while protecting the children she loved.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
🙌🏾😭💔
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Can't make this stuff up. 👇
Jim Bakker and Lance Wallnau assure Bakker's television audience that Trump is a Christian because multiple right-wing pastors "have led him in the Sinner's Prayer": "I'm sure one of 'em stuck."
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Read, weep and be angry. Lord have mercy. No words.
Former staff at Knoxville church see a familiar pattern in Northern Seminary’s complaints about Shiell’s leadership via
@baptist_news
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Beyond grievous. Read, weep and be angry.
They had a secret list of 700 known sex offenders in their ranks and this is their priority.
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@BethMooreLPM
You are a terrific role model for all of us believers, Beth. Your openness to ideas outside of your "tribe" is heart-warming.
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Praying for the whole Keller family.
Health Update: Today, Dad is being discharged from the hospital to receive hospice care at home. Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often. He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus. His family is very sad because we... 1/3
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Oh yeah. Or Galli calling my husband and said I was "bearing false witness" for questioning Ed Stetzer and James MacDonald! I almost forgot that!!!
I still remember when Mark Galli accused Wade Burleson and me of "violating the 10 commandments" over our questions about Ed Stetzer's relationship with James MacDonald. Now this.
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"Calling out evil doesn’t erase good. Calling out evil is the only way to get rid of evil before it overwhelms the good." - Beth Barr
Love this quote from Beth Barr.
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"If you think Julie Roys is the problem, you're missing the real problem." Amen to this. 👇
Here's what I think about
@reachjulieroys
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