"There's staring, and there's screaming, and there's a secret third thing"
Seattle, Washington
Joined August 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sam's Wondering retweeted
Virginia Woolf wrote of looking glass shame — a “life long aversion and embarrassment“ of her own frame.
Survivors of incest may bear a resemblance to own abusers or accomplices.
It’s suffocatingly complicated.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I can recall churches requesting prayer for pastors, missionaries, police and politicians. Never recall a church asking for prayer for journalists. The @danielsilliman list of 52 people leaving Christianity Today, would be a good place to start. danielsilliman.substack.com/…
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I struggle with the competing desires to be acknowledged for the atrocity of abuse whilst wishing to be invisible; to speak aloud in the day while writing in the night; to grieve with fellow mourners whilst seeking solace in solitude.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I have never seen so much evil clothed in religiosity. It makes my head spin and my heart wither. Church is no longer a safe haven for the broken and the oppressed. It has become a hunting ground for predators, a stage for narcissists, and an MLM for shysters.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
29/ I see that between yesterday and today @TheRayCurryJr has dispappeared from the speaker lineup @reachjulieroys Restore 2027 conference replaced by courageous hero !Cindy Clemishire! Grateful to Julie Roys and to @ashley_cyn45518. Wish I could go to the conference.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I double-dog dare you to ask your church what they spent on a consulting firm for their ‘capital campaign’. All paid with tithe dollars, of course.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
I find the injustice in the world equally appalling, overwhelming, and unsurprising.
I have chosen to respond in small, sustainable acts of resistance that include organic and informed actions within my sphere of influence.
I can’t be well AND outraged all the time.
Sam's Wondering retweeted
If no one reported had reported on Life Sure, would anything have changed?
In 2025, Roys Report (RR) covered concerns surrounding Life Surge. This year, a secular publication picked up our story. And now, Tim Tebow and Craig Groeschel have cut ties with Life Surge. This is why investigative journalism matters.
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Sam's Wondering retweeted
11/ "As wives, one of the greatest gifts we can bring into our marriages is sensitivity-the ability to recognize the unspoken needs of our husbands. Sometimes, it isn't about what he says but about what he doesn't say"
~Tabitha Curry, 2025
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Sam's Wondering retweeted
27/ Oh. circling back to pastor @TheRayCurryJr saying "I found out all kinds of things: the men who slept with [raped] little boys,"
In North Carolina, knowingly failing to report child abuse is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Did Pastor Ray Curry report the multiple perpetrators?