Also in here: I spoke with a person who has been out monitoring ICE in Minneapolis — a religious high schooler who has done the same in Chicago for months.
He told me ICE’s response to observers like them in Minnesota is already more aggressive — on average — than they’re used to.
Join ACNAtoo on December 27 for a live discussion of the Ruch verdict and its implications for the future of the ACNA.
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Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago.
“Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.”
“It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”
The new allegation, by a woman identified as “Jane Doe 1,” appears in a revised ecclesiastical complaint — known as a “presentment” — submitted to the denomination on Thursday.
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Note that welfare programs are basically part of LDS and Quiverfull cultures. The Sister Wives family and the Duggars, before they got that reality TV money, were using government assistance to support their huge families. Hate those cultures but I *still* support all their kids having full bellies
OPINION: Our churches need to wake up. Advocates and abuse survivors aren’t the devil’s employees. If you want to find the devil, follow the church leaders who leave a trail of broken bodies in their wake. That is the road to hell.
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World Magazine was intimately involved with promoting Christofascism throughout Marvin Olasky’s leadership.
We were polished arrows for God, intended to fly beyond our parents’ sphere of influence.
If you lose an arrow in a battle, you don’t get it back. It’s expendable. That’s why you need a whole quiver of them.
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Thank you! Please speak with survivors of this movement @wickdchiq.bsky.social!
Thank you for covering this! Those of us who lived this nightmare 20 years ago have a lot to say: religiondispatches.org/want-to-know...
The Quiverfull daughters would like a word.
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“Here’s the bottom line: very important information is being withheld from you by the Court, the Archbishop, and the Archbishop’s staff.”
Rachel Thebeau, Esq., Asst. Counsel to the ACNA Provincial Prosecutor, describes what she witnessed in the trial of Bp. Ruch:
On 7/20/25, Abp. Wood announced that Archdeacon Job Serebrov has been appointed as the new Provincial Prosecutor. However, concerns have been raised regarding Serebrov’s undisclosed ties to the Greenhouse Movement and leadership in the Diocese of the Upper Midwest.
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His resignation includes a request that the entire trial record and full transcript — all properly redacted — be made available to all ACNA members.
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I do too! @responsiblehs.bsky.social
Many of HSLDA’s board members are close associates of Speaker Mike Johnson—doing as much as he can to destroy public education and send scrambling families to be placed under the dominion of his friends.
The Very Rev. Dr. Dan Alger has shaped the ACNA’s church planting strategy for over a decade as the Provincial Canon for Church Planting and the director of Always Forward.
In May 2025, he was removed as rector of Redeemer, yet there has not been a transparent process.
Were you homeschooled in Wisconsin? The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives invites participants for the first-known oral history project dedicated to the voices of homeschool alumni.
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Jun. 11 the ACNA published the Bishops’ Presentment against Bp. Ruch, previously unseen by ACNA members for 2.5 years. It was then removed for redaction and has not been returned. We are re-posting the presentment today, properly redacted.
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Worth a read although the team rejected my proposed title: "Who Makes the Laws (Ashey's version)."
Are you worried that your town might face a hostile takeover from Christian Nationalists? Look for these common factors.
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Would you consider joining me? You can donate financially or simply share my message to raise awareness about Mezzo Allies’ work.
Change requires collective action. So here I am, participating in a virtual walkathon to raise money for Mezzo Allies’ mission.
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As the daughter of church leaders who should have reported family-controlled sex trafficking, I grieve with survivors. As an advocate, I work to end oppressive systems through education and policy change.
Mezzo Allies is doing critical work to train people around the country. I joined their board because I see the devastation that family-controlled trafficking inflicts on vulnerable children. Family-controlled trafficking and organized abuse create unique challenges for survivors.
I have worked with several survivors of family-controlled trafficking. My friend Kait Gannon is one of the most vocal survivors. She and Laurie Krull are co-founders of Mezzo Allies, a non-profit that educates people about family-controlled human trafficking.
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41% of all human trafficking victims report that their exploitation began with a parent or a caregiver. When the home is the crime scene, traditional responses fall short. Survivors are criminalized, dismissed, or retraumatized.
As a mother, it is a hard truth to acknowledge that parents are the most common abusers of their children. Sex trafficking is awful. Family-controlled sex trafficking is infinitely worse—and it’s far more common than we realize.
We think that the buyers are perverted people on the outskirts of society, not the elder in our church, the volunteer fire chief in our town, the teacher at our school. We do not want to believe that our pastors and parents know about the abuse and have failed to report it.
