"There's staring, and there's screaming, and there's a secret third thing"
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1/ @WillowCreekCC is approaching their 50th anniversary--so towards 5 full decades of multiple sexual predator clerics and never-ending Institutional Cowardice and Institutional Betrayal of victim-survivors: a thread (this thread is gonna get so. long. over the next 8 months)
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According to investigatory report, ABWE “lied about & hid the existence of 100s of documents pertaining to Ketcham at the direction of ABWE attorney Robert Showers.” Yet Southern Baptists still platformed Showers at a seminar to educate churches on abuse.
christabrown.substack.com/p/…
1/ hi @ChristaBrown777. Recently I came across the story of Donn Ketcham, a baptist missionary medical doctor who spent 50 years sexually assaulting his minor patients, both in Bangladesh and the USA.
2/ Many people in @ABWE_Intl knew about his predation, and they never stopped him.
But the thing that really stuck me was that his dad, Robert Thomas Ketcham, a pastor for decades with @RegularBaptist , was ALSO a sexual predator pastor.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
If you’re Aussie and get the chance to watch the Fox News election coverage today, be aware it’s the funniest show in town because never have we seen a bigger collection of sad-sack grifters, hopelessly corrupt liars and furious sooky-la-la dickbrains in all our born fucking days.
It’s freaking hilarious and the chance of a lifetime to watch the MAGA melt-down in glorious technicolour.
Cross fingers this blue landslide continues.
#Midterms2026
Here's a list of 18 people whose decades of failures allowed @ABWE_Intl missionary medical doctor to sexually abuse children in Bangladesh and the USA for 50 years.
Hi @ChristaBrown777 May I show the most horrifying thing I recently learned that happend among Baptists?
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I love the work @compassion does among children. But what this whistleblower reveals is extremely concerning.
An AI tool he developed found more than 25,000 cases of suspected grooming in letters between sponsors and the children in Compassion's program. The whistleblower says Compassion has failed to adequately address the danger and is instead threatening him with legal action.
I hate to say it, but this is typical circling-the-wagons behavior. I'm really disappointed. Full disclosure, I've sponsored Compassion children for decades.
roysreport.com/compassion-in…
Sam's Wondering retweeted
It’s important to clear something up that I see misunderstood quite often.
If a pastor has a sexual relationship with a parishioner, it can never be described as consensual. This isn’t opinion – it’s a matter of clergy ethics.
It is malpractice – and an abuse of power.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
Compassion International’s own AI tool flagged 25,810 suspected grooming cases in letters sponsors wrote to children. A whistleblower who helped build the tool says @compassion still has no process for canceling those sponsors.
roysreport.com/compassion-in…
Sam's Wondering retweeted
"I think your sexually abusive behavior that harmed at least two women disqualifies you from public ministry...," Dr. Michael Brown
@DrMichaelLBrown
Sam's Wondering retweeted
Going into debt to support a church isn't necessarily an act of faith. It may be an act of financial recklessness. And pastors shouldn't confuse the two.
Yet as @WillowCreekCC seeks to raise $100 million, pastor Shawn Williams is praising families who took out personal loans and second mortgages to fund the church's first building in 1977.
roysreport.com/willow-creek-…
1/ I want y'all to know that New Tribes Mission / Ethnos360 started a magazine in 1943 that ran through 2017 entitled "Brown Gold".
Its title is 100% doing exactly what you think it's doing.
This thread is eventually going to get so. so. long. #Ethnos360 #NewTribesMission
16/ I'm a little bit curious about how Theresa Sidebotham became so evil. She's a little bit like ... Eichmann. yeah, that's the simile, right there. Like some kind of Eichmann for Molech. What happened to her, one wonders, over there in Java, as a child?
17/ Perhaps even MORE interestingly--what if she went through some miraculous transformation and became a follower of Jesus? That'd be a thing to behold . Here's Dr. @wademullen on Dark Side and Light Side Leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Sam's Wondering retweeted
.@WillowCreekCC is asking congregants for $100 million over two years, with participation from 100% of members. Senior Pastor Shawn Williams held up the people who took out second mortgages to fund the church's first building in 1977 as models of faith.
More than half the money would go to the church's general operating budget.
roysreport.com/willow-creek-…