Just like Crowder found it acceptable to churn out content with his marriage on the rocks, TNE leader Tim Whitaker is still pushing out content after his abusive behavior was exposed for all to see.
Hi there! Are there any updates since then? I am still a member of the Facebook group but unfollowed TNE on Instagram and Facebook. I will not be joining this new group on their app. I mainly stayed to see if there would ever been any accountability follow up to the “accountability” the board said would be put in place. But after a week Tim started content again. April Ajoy started back with him. It gives me great pause. An author and a scholar I respect just went on their podcast and it made me wonder if she knows this happened or not. I find the whole thing really concerning. It feels too much like the corrupt turn a blind eye church systems many of us left and don’t have a tolerance for.
I hadn’t seen any updates later. It’s so disappointing. For all the discussion of wanting to do better than the corrupt evangelical systems we left, it seems very performative when this situation arose. I was trying to weigh the information given by both sides, however, when I heard about Tim calling reporters who ran stories and getting angry and yelling at them that gave me great pause. And then it was never brought up by the board or disclosed to the TNE community. And the lack of what was going to change to provide the “holding ourselves” accountable action. I understand that some things are private employment matters; however, when it’s calling reporters and getting angry- that’s not private anymore. Honestly, it just feels deceptive- especially with the break and going back to business as normal- and never bringing it up again. And no mention of working with the original victim to make amends again.
Absolutely, honestly, none of us are perfect and no one was expecting perfection. Just want to be a part of a community where saying, I screwed up and this is what I am doing to fix it, openly and transparently, is normalized. Does that make sense? No more leaders who just get a pass.
Unfortunately evangelical Christianity is riddled with misogyny. Any religious group that values submissive obedience in its wives,and daughters may not be salvageable. I eas raised Catholic. I attended Catholic schools for 17 years (K through college). I walked away because of Catholicism's attitude toward the proper role of women,contraception, abortion, and sexuality in general I was 20. I've been a happy Wiccan ever since, which views Deity as male, female and anything else we can imagine and a lot we likely can't; gay and straight, bisexual and asexual. 55years later I've never had a moment's doubt or regret.
Lest you think I left Christianity because I don't know the Bible, I have read it cover to.cover 7 times, not including the readings I heard in Mass for 20 years. I also.have a minor in theology.
Hi there! Are there any updates since then? I am still a member of the Facebook group but unfollowed TNE on Instagram and Facebook. I will not be joining this new group on their app. I mainly stayed to see if there would ever been any accountability follow up to the “accountability” the board said would be put in place. But after a week Tim started content again. April Ajoy started back with him. It gives me great pause. An author and a scholar I respect just went on their podcast and it made me wonder if she knows this happened or not. I find the whole thing really concerning. It feels too much like the corrupt turn a blind eye church systems many of us left and don’t have a tolerance for.
Sadly, not much. They’ve kept up like nothing happened—a reason I couldn’t stay.
I hadn’t seen any updates later. It’s so disappointing. For all the discussion of wanting to do better than the corrupt evangelical systems we left, it seems very performative when this situation arose. I was trying to weigh the information given by both sides, however, when I heard about Tim calling reporters who ran stories and getting angry and yelling at them that gave me great pause. And then it was never brought up by the board or disclosed to the TNE community. And the lack of what was going to change to provide the “holding ourselves” accountable action. I understand that some things are private employment matters; however, when it’s calling reporters and getting angry- that’s not private anymore. Honestly, it just feels deceptive- especially with the break and going back to business as normal- and never bringing it up again. And no mention of working with the original victim to make amends again.
Hoping to start a group of TNE refuseniks…you game?
Absolutely, honestly, none of us are perfect and no one was expecting perfection. Just want to be a part of a community where saying, I screwed up and this is what I am doing to fix it, openly and transparently, is normalized. Does that make sense? No more leaders who just get a pass.
Friend me on FB…I figure if we start it more will follow.
Now we know how never-Trumpers feel. The thing I miss most is the community.
Unfortunately evangelical Christianity is riddled with misogyny. Any religious group that values submissive obedience in its wives,and daughters may not be salvageable. I eas raised Catholic. I attended Catholic schools for 17 years (K through college). I walked away because of Catholicism's attitude toward the proper role of women,contraception, abortion, and sexuality in general I was 20. I've been a happy Wiccan ever since, which views Deity as male, female and anything else we can imagine and a lot we likely can't; gay and straight, bisexual and asexual. 55years later I've never had a moment's doubt or regret.
Lest you think I left Christianity because I don't know the Bible, I have read it cover to.cover 7 times, not including the readings I heard in Mass for 20 years. I also.have a minor in theology.