ClaraBow

@KSPrior Isn’t it wonderful to have the fresh enthusiasm of people with can-do attitudes who are delighted to help you? It brings such vigor. I am appreciating that right now about my youngest son and his wife who just relocated and are staying with me until they settle. Such a blessing!

Two of my beloved former students came over today to help me organize and shelve the books in my little library. This project is almost complete!

@MBurtwrites It seems pretty clear. He just wants women to never speak about anything. The misogyny is so rampant. It’s insane. Has he ever wondered what Mary and Martha did while listening to Jesus teach in the presence of men?

How does this not make people at least begin to question if this is all based on man-made rules? At some point this just reads like fear of women.

We live in crazy world.

Abuse is always fruit borne by the abuser. It is never caused by the victim. All victims, children or adults, need understanding and protection, not blame.

If a woman speaks to a crowd of pastors, is it evidence of her teaching men? Or is it only “teaching” if she uses Scripture? Or is it only wrong if she explains Scripture, and in that case, does it suddenly become “preaching” regardless of the setting? Or is it only preaching if there’s a pulpit involved? A Sunday morning service? A title? Meanwhile, the same movement insisting women must never “teach men” somehow has no issue platforming women like Megan Basham to address rooms full of male pastors when it serves their cultural or political priorities. So apparently a woman can instruct, influence, warn, persuade, and shape the thinking of men… as long as everybody agrees not to call it “teaching.” She can serve, sweat, pray, and deliver the same exact message about Jesus as any man she knows- as long as we don’t call her a pastor. If this doesn’t feel like God’s heart, I suspect it’s because we all pretty much know it’s not.

Ed Gallrein received 10,854 “mail in” ballots votes tonight. Thomas Massie lost by 10,280 votes. That’s not a coincidence.

Dear Thomas Massie, Tear it all fucking down on your way out. Sincerely, America

🚨 JUST IN — Thomas Massie concedes the race: “I would've come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede.” “And it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.” That line is going to detonate across Washington. Massie just turned his concession speech into a missile aimed directly at the flood of outside money and foreign policy influence that consumed this race. The most expensive House primary in U.S. history ends with one final message: This wasn’t just Kentucky voting. This was the political establishment making an example out of someone who refused to fall in line.

Important to remember that Massie remains in Congress until January 3rd, 2027. It’s time for him to expose EVERYTHING.

@JaredCBurt It’s called GASLIGHTING, the most frequently used tactic of highly narcissistic manipulators. They make good people question themselves while they rolls over everyone in a cloud of faux spiritual superiority.

Can someone explain to me how removing hundreds/thousands of churches over a tertiary issue, and refusing to cooperate in gospel ministry with them, is an attempt at unity?

Why is homosexuality constantly singled out, while adultery is literally listed in God's Ten Commandments and often gets overlooked?

@teachthemx3 Guess what? It happens at private schools too.

I have a senior on my roster who hasn’t attended my class a single day this semester. She showed up today for the first time. We have 7 days left before grades are finalized for seniors. My administrator just asked me to see what I can do to help her graduate. In case anyone here is a new follower, this is why I’m leaving public education.

@KaeleyT I thought he was LDS..?

What the heck happened to JP Sears? This is ghastly. A collection of anti-Semitic he-man woman haters who don’t know Jesus at all.

Their story speaks to the profound failure of @WheatonCollege to safeguard students & care properly for staff & families It speaks to ways marriage is idolized in eva communities such that betrayed women experience isolation, shame, & community silence instead of support & help+

Yep.

A *podcaster* counts as “acting as a pastor”?!

i’m still trying to figure out how we went from "go green" to AI data centers in every state

@JosiahHawthorne Why is this the hill???

The old Law Amendment only said “affirm, appoint, or employ.” Mohler’s new proposed amendment has wording so broad, you could conceivably charge a church with breaking “friendly cooperation” with the SBC just for having, say, a Beth Moore book on the tract table.

@KaeleyT Exactly. Classic DARVO.

So many, many strangers have come to my page in the last three days to strongly declare that Julie Roys is bad news. They accuse her of gossip, of slander, of division, of witch hunts. I am not going to say she does her job perfectly. None of us do. What I will say is that she is METICULOUS with receipts. If she makes a claim, she's going to make darn sure to back it up with evidence, which is a helluva lot more than the people coming here to condemn her are able to do when asked why they dislike her so much. You know what else she does that these guys NEVER do? She repents when she gets things wrong. She owns her mistakes. She apologizes for them. She names her sin, and not in the slimy damage-control way we see in so many churches where the pastor only issues a half-ass vague apology so he can retain power. Women who rock the boat in the church are held to a much higher standard in the public eye than many of our pastors are. John MacArthur publicly excommunicated Eileen Gray in front of thousands of people and encouraged his congregation to treat her like an enemy when she refused to return to her criminally abusive sexual predator of a husband. He never apologized. Mark Driscoll can call women "penis homes" and use church funds to advance his book to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and be credibly accused by literally dozens of church members of pastoral abuse, and yet he's invited to be a keynote speaker at major Christian conferences. Doug Wilson can call women cunts and harpies and lumberjack dykes. He can say that American slavery wasn't bad. He can preach that women shouldn't vote. He can write softcore porn about sex robots. He can harbor numerous pedophiles in his church and shame their victims into silence and still be invited to lead prayer sessions at nationally important events. Greg Locke can abandon his marriage and marry his secretary. He can abuse his congregation and make bogus accusations about having proof that Joel Osteen is an actual pedophile, and he's still on the main circuit. Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels, Robert Morris, Tullian Tchividjian, Paige Patterson, Mile Bickle, and on and on and on ad nauseam. How long did it take for any of the truths about these guys to be known? And how would anyone know if people like Julie weren't tirelessly doing the work most of us neglect? It wouldn't. But if you'd rather pretend like the real problem is Julie Roys instead of a culture of whitewashing abuse, then at least have the courtesy to apply the same standard of care in reporting that she does: Bring the receipts. Show me where she reported something untrue about someone. And then tell me why you're more upset about her talking than you are about these leaders abusing their power. Apparently "nobody is perfect" applies to pastors who spiritually terrorize people, protect predators, exploit congregants, lie, bully, manipulate, and destroy lives. But let a woman raise her voice too loudly while exposing it, and suddenly precision, holiness, gentleness, and biblical ethics become urgent concerns. I'm sorry, but no. I don't buy it anymore. If your greatest outrage is reserved for the people exposing rot instead of the people creating it, you are not protecting the church. You are protecting the machine.

@brmorris @RuggieriJulia This is true of every form of abuse and it’s treatment within the church. The abuser lies habitually to get away with their favorite form of sin/abuse. Duplicity is the name of the game. And yet we believe them when they say the words “I’m sorry.”

Ask your church leaders if they’ve done education on sexual predators and on the trauma of survivors. If not, beware.