Matt Drapps

Did you know I wrote a book about my experience in Sheffield with exorcism, Christian Extremism and Conversion Therapy? It's called Bringing Me Back to Me, and available from all good booksellers.

This is as close as you get to a straight version of Conversion Therapy Practices, where a church leader stirs, meddles and interferes with the sexuality, relationship and future of a person who is in love Deeply disturbing

VITAL READING: I've been in touch with someone who is standing up against manipulative church abuse of women, in this case using Coercive Control to push them into breaking up with a partner. It's a heart breaking story, and it parallels so much of what is experienced by LGBT+

@pucsiducsi @ladygaga Vanish Into You, this one has my heart

10 years bad luck if you don’t reply with your favorite song from "MAYHEM" 🖤

Spotify link: open.spotify.com/show/37rZUx4z1…

You can listen on Spotify or YouTube, or still grab the ebook, or readalong if you have the book 3 chapters a day follows the timeline through to NY

Tomorrow, LESSER LIGHT begins on the 23rd December with a pre-wedding gathering of friends, who soon start to remember why they stopped talking! A supernatural Christmas mystery

“We do not feel we have had justice”. Powerful letter from Smyth victim ⁦@Graham1munro⁩ in ⁦@ChurchTimes⁩ today . As he says, “patently Smyth was not stopped and was not brought to justice. No-one actually did what was needed”

BREAKING: The DA has withdrawn all statements made by Luigi Mangione during interrogation. He was not made aware he was being recorded, which violates Pennsylvania’s Two Party Consent Law.

The full story of the whistleblower who’s broken a confidentiality agreement to tell us she warned after the suicide of Father Alan Griffin that other priests were in danger…she says her complaints were ignored and she was forced out of her job. The @cofe insists she left by mutual agreement. Read here or watch my full report produced by @SachelleConnor on @Channel4News any minute open.substack.com/pub/channel4ne…

Watch the full report produced by the excellent @sachelleconnor tonight at 7 on @Channel4News

I don't know how anyone can deny or downplay the rise in antisemitic violence when 15 people are murdered and dozens more wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted the Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah. To deny the rise in violent antisemitism is to be completely untethered from reality.

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

My thoughts and condolences - along with the rest of London - are with everyone affected by the horrific attack at Bondi Beach, Australia today. The Met Police are increasing their visibility in our Jewish communities ahead of any Chanukah events.

@threadreaderapp Please unroll

That's all I want to say on it

Can we talk, briefly, about the Church Times article from yesterday which addressed the "whistleblowing" case one of my friends took to the Church of England, in which it was revealed that either a church organisation or a Safeguarding Officer had fabricated documents