Audrey Luhmann

Their hope is my hope too. Someday, I will tell the children who gather, long after my own have left their childhoods behind:

“Evil came, and it fought hard. But we countered with peace and with love… and children, we won.”

Yet in my children’s eyes, I see a hope that refuses to concede that this could be the end. These young ones dream of the day when our nation is known by its welcome, when authority is held only to serve, when peace has taken deep root in our bones.

... I taught would always seek to protect and serve. They have watched boys almost their own ages be handcuffed and stuffed into unmarked cars by unidentified men, never to be seen again.

My children have witnessed nightmares.

...in our history books, blessedly decades, centuries – even millennia – behind us.

The evil is here; it is happening today, right now. My children have heard the sobs and the screams of the wife left behind. They have witnessed – have experienced themselves – brutality and betrayal from those...

As we witness fellow humans being kidnapped around us, I must find language to assure my children that God has not left us all alone. With a heaviness that threatens defeat, I accept that I cannot shield my children from evil, the levels of which I thought only existed in the past, chronicled ...

Thank God for the Unsatisfied — ACNAtoo Picture this: you haven’t eaten in days. You go to the soup kitchen, and they sit you down and put a plate in front of you with a single bean. You point out the stocked refrigerator and cabinets and o...

"I hear the voices of the bishops saying, 'They’ll never be satisfied!' and I hear the response echoing back through the ages:

'They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.' "

4 years on, Kelley Goewey offers this reflection:

Who Makes the Laws? — ACNAtoo If the consolidation of power and disenfranchisement of ACNA members’ voices concerns you, please contact your diocesan delegates and ask them to vote down the proposed amendment to Title I, Cano...

Members of the ACNA have spent 4 years calling for changes to the Title IV disciplinary canons as a result of widespread abuse and mishandling. Instead, the ACNA has centered its focus on narrowing members’ ability to bring the change that they have repeatedly requested.

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A New Push to Open the Doors on Childhood Sexual Abuse A man abused as a child at a Missouri Christian camp agreed to remain silent, and took his own life. His sister is pushing several states to ban such nondisclosure agreements.

Despicable cowards.

“Still, Kanakuk said that while they ‘support the right of victims to share their stories in pursuit of healing,’ insurers may insist that the specific terms of any settlement ‘must remain confidential.’”

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@holypost.bsky.social, could you comment on your interview with offender Nephtali Matta (Episode 281) and why you chose to remove the episode from your archives?

Min. 45:00 of today's new Wall of Silence episode, interview portions are alarming and 🚩🚩🚩.

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Ep 11: The Presentment of Bishop Stewart Ruch Part 1—The Evidence Podcast Episode · Wall of Silence · 03/25/2025 · 1h 27m

Seven cases in which ACNA Bp. Stewart Ruch allowed men with criminal or credible histories of predatory behavior into his churches - elevating most of them to leadership positions - without informing the congregations.

Evidence laid out in this new episode.

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Cutting this program will not significantly change our nation's financial state (<1% of national budget). Yet, it will alter forever the lives of many around the world. Jesus said that the second greatest commandment was to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Are we doing this?

Remember Jesus' words:

They will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' (Matt. 25: 44-45)

We have come so close to winning the battle against AIDS, but remember, AIDS is a virus, and without vigilant attention, it will spread again. USAID has had long bipartisan support, and Congress has never considered shutting it down.

USAID does vital work that keeps tens of millions of people alive, including 20 million people living with HIV who depend on daily medication paid for by the US government to survive.

When two men can unilaterally erase a government agency overnight, America is no longer a democracy, it is an authoritarian regime.

Please write/call/email your representatives in Congress. You can put in your zip code at congress[dot]gov and you'll go right to their profiles.

USAID has existed since 1961 (started by JFK) and does (or did) humanitarian and development work in over 100 countries worldwide. It was the largest funder of global health programs in the world.

I write about abuse of power, observing how leaders misuse their power & harm those they should protect.

Donald Trump just shut down a government agency (USAID) w/ no due process & no Congressional involvement, much less authorization.

Who will suffer? Those less powerful. 🧵

Ep 10: Scarlet Letters & Witch Hunts—a recap and reflection Podcast Episode · Wall of Silence · 01/30/2025 · 1h 6m

A new Wall of Silence podcast episode is out! Producer Chris Marchand explains more of how he was told to stop the podcast last summer.

Also included: a recap, an update, and a reflection.

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