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6 years

I rest in two words: God sees.

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Sickened. Friends, this is NOT a moral failure just because it happened decades ago. It was the worst kind of grooming and abuse. Let's call this what it was. R*pe.

Pastor Robert Morris confesses to ‘moral failure’ after woman claims he began molesting her at age...

Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, which attracts an estimated 100,000 worshipers weekly, has confessed to inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady more than

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Mary DeMuth

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I've watched the first two episodes of Shiny Happy People, and what I've noticed (besides all the cringy, awful, icky stuff) is that JESUS is never mentioned. It's all rules and authority, authority, authority.

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6 years

MYTH: Sexual predators are creeps and social outcasts. TRUTH: They are typically charming, the life of the party, well liked and applauded.

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6 years

Is anyone else tired of worship songs all about us and very little about God?

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3 years

Sometimes God calls us to write, not to be published but to be healed.

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2 years

I would like to live in a world where survivors get standing ovations and perpetrators get justice. Is that too much to ask?

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2 years

I'm beginning to see that the more mature a believer is, the less they take offense, the less they retreat to insecurity, and the more they err on the side of kindheartedness.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

Teachers and pastors: please don’t call what David did to Bathsheba “an adulterous affair.” While, yes, David committed adultery against his many wives, Bathsheba had no say. God did not blame her; the blame of the predation fell solely upon David. This was no mutual affair.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

Dear #SBC18 There are 970 minutes of programming at your conference, of which 12 minutes are allowed to a woman. That’s a little over 1% of the voice, yet there are more than 55% of women in your congregations. WHY?

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Mary DeMuth

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4 months

Perhaps one of the most perplexing parts of leaving a church is not being asked why. I get it. I understand it feels like gossip, but so few people are curious. I would love someone to be curious, not for uncovering dirt, but for understanding our pain and shouldering the story.

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Mary DeMuth

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2 years

It’s not “ruining” a Christian leader’s life to expose the truth about their predation. It’s called love. Love of justice. Love of the victimized.

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4 months

When you've loved your church for over two decades, then leave, it's the deepest of losses. To say I am grieved is an understatement.

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3 years

Something is troubling and wrong about churches who are more moved by the tears of a pedophile than the tears of their victims.

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5 years

I have found that survivors, while they struggle to work through the heinous crime they’ve experienced, find it equally excruciating coming to terms with people who KNEW but did nothing. Bystanding (and not acting) is egregious and wrong. We are called to protect the innocent.

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4 years

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass

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5 years

"It is not gossip to expose predators. It’s telling the truth for the sake of preventing future victims. When they began harming others, they relinquished their right to privacy.” from my upcoming book.

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4 years

Here’s my unpopular opinion: If someone has sexually preyed on people in their care, they are exempt from ministry forever.

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6 years

I don’t share my story because I want to live back there in the trauma, I share it because others are just coming to terms with their own trauma and need to know they’re not alone.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Let me be clear: To out a predator publicly IS NOT GOSSIP. It's justice. It's protecting more people from being harmed. Brave disclosure is the very essence of God whose heart ALWAYS bends to the vulnerable. To not speak up is sin. Let’s flip the narrative, folks.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

Dear Southern Baptist Convention #SBC21 , I feel used, and here’s why.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

Writers: a warning. The spiritual warfare around your completed book is often dealing in the same subject as the book. I’ve finished my misunderstood book, and guess what? Yep, I’m battling misunderstanding. I just want to prepare you...

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3 years

I could use some prayer.

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2 years

I am grateful for @BethMooreLPM 's fidelity to Jesus.

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19 days

I think this pathway of healing from an unhealthy church is going to take longer than I thought.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

The church should never be a platform for celebrities–it must be the fellowship of the unnoticed, a place of healing for the broken, a community where the fame of Jesus trumps everything.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 months

There is grief in leaving a church you've called home for so long. And anger. And confusion. And this feeling of being untethered.

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3 years

Friends, I could use some protective prayer right now. I won’t go into it, but let’s just say when you try to speak up for those who are hurt, a big ol’ target appears on your life. I’m brokenhearted over this recent trial. It makes me mourn for the state of the church.

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3 years

This has been a harder week in retrospect. Prayers appreciated for a renewed perspective, genuine joy, and hope that darkness will be overcome by truth and light and empathy and love.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

If a predatory & narcissistic leader is publicly outed, Mark my words, they will forsake the hard work of years-long restoration in favor of a big, indignant comeback infused with grace language and little or no repentance (or even recognition of) the carnage they left.

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4 years

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. Romans 12:10 I delight tonight in honoring @BethMooreLPM who spends her life for the kingdom.

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1 month

It's hard to notice a toxic system when you're swimming in it. Sometimes you have to step outside to see clearly. And then it's a lot easier to discern.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

What if we looked at church growth not in terms of numbers of folks in pews but by the utterly changed lives of the broken who were dignified heard loved graced empowered? Revival parades this kind of upside down change of culture where the little are great

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Mary DeMuth

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15 days

I am rewatching The Secrets of Hillsong on @Hulu , and it’s been difficult, particularly as I process the system I left last year. I’m beginning to think there is a bad-actor playbook for some of these abusive ministries. Some observations: Protect the institution. At any cost,

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

If a pastor has harmed others, particularly in a predatory way, he is no longer a shepherd but a wolf. Call me harsh, but a wolf should never shepherd unless they’ve undergone significant reformation (years) and counseling. Wolves make predatory shepherds.

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3 months

I am not petty. I do not make rash decisions. I am not prone to hype. I am not immature. I can take a joke. My decision to leave my big ol' church was not capricious. I cannot be easily dismissed as disgruntled or immature or a hater.

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1 year

This will get me in trouble, no doubt. But let me just say how exhausting it is to have a preaching gift continually maligned and thwarted and demonized.

Robert Downen

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#BREAKING Southern Baptists have officially kicked out Saddleback Church, the megachurch led by famous pastor Rick Warren, over its support of female pastors. #SBC23 #SBC2023

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

Words to a sexual abuse survivor: I believe you. The trauma doesn’t define you. You have immense value. I am so sorry. Your story matters. It’s normal to grieve. Take your sweet time. Your empathy is a superpower.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

I don’t know how to fix a denomination or a hierarchy, but I do know how to pray. So I will.

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7 years

White supremacists naming Jesus as Savior forget: Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jewish man who preached radical love for all.

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3 years

What if we measured a ministry’s effectiveness not by the wideness of its reach, but by the depth of discipleship it’s produced?

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6 years

"If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him." Oswald Chambers

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

Thank you @BethMooreLPM for preaching the beautiful, engaging, life-altering gospel at @LPConnect at our weekend services. What a joy to worship alongside you + @katarmstrong1 @sandraglahn @KelleyMMathews and @RebeccaACarrell . What a powerful, redemptive God we serve.

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6 years

For abuse survivors: I am finding it harder to work through and forgive those who failed to protect me (those who KNEW but looked the other way) than even my abusers. Have you found that to be true?

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3 months

Please continue to pray for us. For protection. Talking publicly (though veiled) about church hurt has consequences. I'm weary.

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5 years

Thank you @BethMooreLPM for absolutely, flat-out loving Scripture. You are unashamed of the Gospel, and your voice has encouraged me deeply.

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5 years

Thanks for the hug, @BethMooreLPM . I needed it.

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6 years

i may be small & my voice weak but i am loved relentlessly by a God who does much with little.

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7 months

This is an unusual grief, of leaving behind a church you loved for so long.

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5 years

Re: sexual abuse cover up. God is on a Truth Tour, cleaning His house. Be assured that sexual abuse will be uncovered, and the leaders who covered it up will be brought to account. We cannot be brazen enough to believe we can outwit God in our coverups. He sees. Confess now.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 months

There is a pervasive and undercurrent of disdain for women in places like this. It's so "natural" that it's become the water we swim in. Friends, I'm so tired.

Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here!

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3 months

Breastfeeding is "just gross." Josh Howerton admits he plagiarized his apology from Joby Martin, and many have asked me what Joby Martin was apologizing for. Several of his congregants have sent me this:

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

Today my husband Patrick and I have been married 30 years! God has been so faithful.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 months

People mistakingly believe that anyone who brings a correction to the church is its hater. NO, God corrects those he loves. Paul corrected the churches he planted and loved. This is normative. It is NOT a spiritual attack from the enemy. Judgment begins in the house of God.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

The #SBC21 needs Moore.

Beth Moore

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3 years

Me and @drmoore at the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

Jesus's church doesn’t need leaders to preserve its reputation. He's more than capable of doing that. Remember He's always on the side of the widow, orphan, marginalized & abuse victim. If the church elevates reputation over the cries of the broken, it's broken itself.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Why hadn’t I realized this before? God said to Jesus at his baptism: “This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.” He was pleased with Jesus before he did a single miracle. Could it be he says the same of his children? He flat out loves us before we did anything significant?

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

I am so grateful for the sacrifice of my husband to drive ALL NIGHT LONG so I could be on a sexual abuse panel today at the #sbc19 Thanks @megannlively for the picture!

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

Does anyone else feel like there’s a crisis of empathy in church structures? That the main aim is to protect reputation rather than love and shepherd the broken?

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3 months

If you've been hurt in church, or if you've experienced spiritual abuse, what was the hardest thing to get over/work through?

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2 months

Unspoken prayer request for yours truly. Just a hard, heavy day.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

Change the world in six words: I was wrong. Please forgive me. #6wordworldchange

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Mary DeMuth

@MaryDeMuth

6 years

I wrote 5699 words today. My back hurts. My brain hurts. My eyes hurt. But I will finish this book by month’s end.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

The question is not whether sexual abuse happens in our churches. It will happen (sadly). The question is what will we do when we learn of it? The answer: report to the authorities. Find tangible help for victims. Own whatever permitted such a thing to happen. Apologize. Weep.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Rape is a crime. To call it mere sin or “an inappropriate relationship” negates its traumatic effects. A crime. A crime. A crime.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

When the church won’t air its dirty laundry, the press will, and it won’t be pretty. Best to simply be honest, valuing integrity & transparency more than reputation management. But somehow the powers-that-be still think hiding works. Rest assured, there will be more Nathans.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Ever felt on the outside, longing to be included? You’re normal. So many of our Christian systems boast outsiders & insiders. What I love about Jesus? He welcomes us who feel un-included to the extravagance of a welcoming table. When I feel alone, I picture that table.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

I am weary. Prayers appreciated.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

When will we understand the beauty of laying down power? Jesus chose to lay down his power at the cross. The result? The salvation of us. Yet we wrongly think that currying power will get us places in the kingdom. Not true. The way up is down. Pride, though, precedes destruction.

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

I am aching for his wife, their kids, and all the children whose images he curated on his hard drive. So much devastation.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Jesus, I pray for @rachelheldevans that You would speak gently to her in this state between wake and sleep. Heal her seizures. Empower the doctors with insight. Be her breath. Restore what’s been lost. Amen.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 months

Sometimes God calls people not to pastor a church from a well-lit stage, but to pastor the broken who have fled out the back doors of church. It's the most beautiful congregation.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

Thanks @BethMooreLPM for hearing the voice of the Spirit, heeding it, and obeying come what may. I pray for deep, abiding encouragement today. I know the storms whip and rage, but remember that you stand upon an unmovable rock, keeping your footsteps (and heart) firm.

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2 months

When you can't speak honestly about an abusive church system without retaliation, then the church is controlling and unsafe. Healthy dissent is normative.

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3 years

I’m grateful for @BethMooreLPM ’s fidelity to Jesus and the Word of God. Plus she’s feisty.

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4 months

Well-seasoned disciples typically don't leave a church for a superfluous reason. And the decision, in the end, is agonizing. For us to leave meant that many, many red flags had been noticed, experienced, and unaddressed.

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

We are seeing an unprecedented exposure of predatory people in the church. I know as grace-loving people we love a good redemption story, but please beware of the nature of those who have spent their lives stealing innocence from others. They are cunning. They deceive. #churchtoo

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Mary DeMuth

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4 months

Idea: pastor conferences that give the stage to faithful preachers in small to mid sized contexts, whose hearts are bent toward serving their flock. Over: conferences platforming already platformed preachers who seem to be more about empire than kingdom.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

Please don’t email me your conspiracy theories.

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3 years

"When God wants to change the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the mourners, those who are hungry and thirsty for God's justice, the peacemakers.” @profntwright

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2 years

Quit blaming those who bravely disclose sexual abuse. Save the outrage for the sexual perpetrator.

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3 years

My friend Richard reminded me today that when Adam and Eve sinned, God did not abandon them or walk away. He pursued them even then. This is the Father who loves his children. This is the God who pursues us. This is good news, and it is beautiful.

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3 years

Re: Ravi. Yes all sin is equal in that it separates us from God, but when one commits a crime against another, there are real life consequences & we can’t slap a “sin is sin” argument on it. To do so is to prefer a perp & re-harm the survivor. How does that represent God’s heart?

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

She believes in the power of prayer: @BethMooreLPM

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5 years

It’s the tattered who reveal the face of Jesus but we prefer the shiny, famous, eloquent, successful Christians. We prefer their narrative to the cries of the broken forgetting that Jesus disguises himself in tattered clothing.

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2 years

The SBC as a leadership and institution is far more afraid of litigation than they are of God’s holy gaze.

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5 years

I flat out don't care about the feelings of a serial predator. I don’t give a flip at how many famous people they know & who believe their “Poor me” cries. If they have harmed others, the shame belongs to them, and their criminal actions have earned their sullied reputation.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

When we renewed our vows in Israel where Jesus preached the sermon on the mount. By God’s Grace, we have been married 29 years now.

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1 month

Prayers appreciated, as this kind of truth telling carries risks. But my sincere prayer is that folks feel seen and heard. If you have walked through church bewilderment, you are not crazy, and you are not alone.

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When corrupt leadership is exposed, believers like author @MaryDeMuth have made difficult choices to exit their home church. Now Mary shares how to navigate leaving a toxic church—and what to do in the face of bewilderment & righteous anger after betrayal

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Mary DeMuth

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Publicly exposing abusive leaders doesn’t actually damage their reputation. Their ACTUAL reputation is simply exposed. It’s their carefully crafted public persona that’s obliterated. Jesus did the same public calling out when he spoke of the Pharisees. #belikeJesus

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My heart breaks at the hearts broken by church systems that use, abuse, harass, gaslight, undermine, financially ruin--all under the guise of "doing ministry." Good Lord, please topple these systems.

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5 years

DRUMROLL: This is the book I was born to write: We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis. #WeToo

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Mary DeMuth

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3 years

OK I need to get off the twittersphere for my mental health. Here’s what I know: God is good. He sees. He hates injustice. He knows when leaders thwart justice and malign the hurting. He will bring reckoning. I can pray and act and speak and write. And then surrender.

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Instead of lament (which is important), right now I'm viewing leaving my last church as God's rescue, which has beautifully reframed it for me.

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5 months

Something I struggle with as a Christ following woman. I want to display humility, but I also want to exercise the gifts God has given me. For so long, I saw the closed doors as ways to tame my pride. Now I'm not so sure. After awhile all the closed doors just ushered in sadness.

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Mary DeMuth

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1 year

1. Some nefarious things you may not know about Christian publishing. A % of famous Christians do not write their books. Sometimes they don't attribute the writing to the person who wrote it (ghost writer). Thankfully, more are acknowledging the collab writer on the cover.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

My husband’s mom died last night. Prayers appreciated for our family.

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

Thank you, Jesus, for strength, for rewriting my story, for hope in the midst of difficulty. I give YOU glory for this book. It is Yours, my offering to You and the church. Do with it as You please. #wetoobook #launchday

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Mary DeMuth

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6 years

Most don’t realize that perpetrators have narcissistic personality disorder or are socio or psychopaths. Did you know these are almost impossible to reverse? Because we love redemption, we grant perpetrators who are masters with scripture a hall pass. #thetypicalprocess

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Mary DeMuth

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5 years

I kept my story under my panicked ribcage For ten years A decade wondering If I were the only one With this story And when I let it fly It went dismissed Disbelieved. Disheartened, but by God’s grit Within me I told again And this time it stuck Not to my ribs But to Your heart.

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Mary DeMuth

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4 years

Guess what? Grateful to share this exciting news with the twitterverse:

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