When #BrokenRites was 10, it was Jurassic Park. Are we going to have to deal with those dinosaurs again?

Where are the conversations about alternatives to Facebook? We at #BrokenRites are getting more & more uncomfortable about our dependence on meta.

Who else?

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Sending out good vibes of solidarity to all those who have realised they need to make major life changes with the New Year. It can be a scary lonely place.
It's boom time for enquiries at #BrokenRites www.brokenrites.org
& your local #DomesticAbuse organisation.
Good #friendships are so important!

Screenshot of letter from Church Times letter page. From Dr Margaret Wilkinson. Madam- While our thoughts are quite rightly with those who have experienced church-related abuse as children, we must also acknowledge the problems faced by adults who do not meet the criteria for vulnerability but who, nevertheless, experience church-related abuse. This may have been domestic abuse, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, or other forms of abuse. Those who have suffered encounter the now well-documented problems faced by survivors of church-related child abuse, including reluctance to accept that such abuse occurs, obfuscation, failure to act, and lack of accountability. The church as an institution appers reluctant to recognise the need to respond to such situations, despite the well understood problems that arise from the abuse of power and of deference. MARGARET WILKINSON

A culture that isn't safe for kids isn't safe for any of us. Former #BrokenRites chair @maggie-w.bsky.social reminds the #CofE that these issues run deeper than a few 'bad apples'
#deference #SpiritualAbuse #DomesticAbuse #ChurchToo #clergy #safeguarding