Today I wrote to @JustinWelby & @churchofengland about my experiences as a YP growing up at Emmanuel & the wider Conservative Evangelical church.

I'm sharing what I wrote here bc I want people to know there's a whole other side to the #FletcherCulture conversation.(1/6)

My exps got excluded by @thirtyoneeight so I feel forced into it without the protection of anonymity that report could have given. I was let down as a YP, a woman & a queer person.

I'm not about to spend the next 5 years working with the church like I have in MH. (2/6)

I'll be too busy living my best life. Falling in love, boxing, walking dogs & dancing.

It’s up to them what they do with this. I promised myself yesterday that I’d never again let institutions & systems have as much power over me as I was forced to growing up (3/6)

I hope churches start listening to the masses at some point & do something.
And thanks to @greenbelt & @QTheology for showing me there’s a whole other world out there

CW: #ConversionTherapy, spiritual & sexual abuse, mentions of self harm & suicide, fundamentalism (4/6)

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