tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.comments2024-01-08T09:37:41.219-08:00Chain The DogmaPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger1691125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-45558805425076616152023-12-20T15:04:24.957-08:002023-12-20T15:04:24.957-08:00The woman recalled running into the officer’s son ...The woman recalled running into the officer’s son and alleged she was sexually assaulted by him after their relationship ended. She immediately told the officer about it but said he never encouraged her to report it and didn’t report it himself “even though he was still on duty and had an obligation to do so.”<br /><br />After begging him to provide her with their sex videos in June, she said thePerry Bulwerhttps://chainthedogma.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-9338430057687798822023-12-20T15:03:09.036-08:002023-12-20T15:03:09.036-08:00Woman accuses Victoria police officer of sextortio...<b>Woman accuses Victoria police officer of sextortion, grooming</b><br /><br />Officer suspended amid investigation into allegations of threatening to post woman’s sex videos online<br /><br />Jake Romphf Vancouver Island Free Daily December 14, 2023<br /><br />A woman has accused a Victoria police officer of grooming and extorting her with threats to post her sex videos online if she spoke Perry Bulwerhttps://chainthedogma.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-85569163640309434772023-11-23T12:19:08.476-08:002023-11-23T12:19:08.476-08:00While many like McElroy have left, others have, of...While many like McElroy have left, others have, of course, stayed, and are fighting for their vision of the faith. Some families who own convention grounds refused to hold their conventions this year, people familiar with the church say, after being told they would have to invite alleged sexual abusers to participate.<br /><br />“There are a lot of people in the church who are talking now,” says Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-7392498789856719662023-11-23T12:18:09.751-08:002023-11-23T12:18:09.751-08:00Like other workers, McElroy forewent romantic and ...Like other workers, McElroy forewent romantic and sexual relationships during her time in the work; the fact that overseers did not —even when not accused of outright abuse—strikes her as rank hypocrisy.<br /><br />“To hear about the overseers having decades-long affairs and having babies they didn’t take responsibility for, that pisses us off,” she said, speaking for herself and other former Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-64306673133345837512023-11-23T12:17:13.498-08:002023-11-23T12:17:13.498-08:00Murdoch, 70, is a current and lifelong member of t...Murdoch, 70, is a current and lifelong member of the church. He’s also the only publicly-named member of a group of people who run Wings for Truth, a long-running website which publishes educational materials as well as information about the sect’s issues with child sexual assault, including leaked emails from workers and overseers.<br /><br />“It’s not a sea change yet, but that’s what we’re Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-55822058890699537332023-11-23T12:16:11.429-08:002023-11-23T12:16:11.429-08:00At the time, Kropp was the mother of two young chi...At the time, Kropp was the mother of two young children, living in Oklahoma, where her then-husband was working. She had plenty of time and curiosity, and she’d started to have questions about the church, specifically its roles for women; like others who grew up within it, she’d been taught that she needed to have long hair and forego makeup. She’d also begun to be bothered by the idea that her Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-81368698727481935512023-11-23T12:15:10.362-08:002023-11-23T12:15:10.362-08:00Nothing happening in the church is exactly new. Ac...Nothing happening in the church is exactly new. Accusations of abuse have been surfacing for years. For just as long, there’s been a deep logistical and spiritual struggle over how to respond. One of the earliest people in the United States to speak out was a woman named Rebecca Ginestar, who in 1996 released a self-published book detailing what she alleged was a history of spiritual abuse and Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-58510606814417616132023-11-23T12:14:02.427-08:002023-11-23T12:14:02.427-08:00While some survivors are grappling with how to mov...While some survivors are grappling with how to move forward, other people who grew up in the church are trying to answer even more basic questions about their own histories—ones that, to date, they say the church authority figures have not helped with.<br /><br />One such person is T.S., the survivor who spoke to VICE News. When she arrived in the United States as a young child, she was in a Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-66020636678990312472023-11-23T12:12:59.444-08:002023-11-23T12:12:59.444-08:00In emails from Liles that have been posted on the ...In emails from Liles that have been posted on the ex-member message boards, she excoriated church leadership for failing to take action against alleged abusers, reminding them they had both a legal and moral obligation to do so.<br /><br />“Society expects institutions to keep their communities safe—especially the children,” she wrote in one such letter. “You may say, ‘Oh, he's an old man andPerry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-33932095156422850782023-11-23T12:11:57.415-08:002023-11-23T12:11:57.415-08:00“I hope we all can work together to find a way thr...“I hope we all can work together to find a way through these issues in a more united way,” Affleck added. “We are aware that our enemy’s most effective tool is wedge-creating divisiveness.”<br /><br />Despite the nominal lack of structure in the church, there are three men who insiders say have a special degree of power: Ray Hoffman, Dale Shultz, and Barry Barkley. Hoffman is the informal leader Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-67171881124474258132023-11-23T12:10:54.947-08:002023-11-23T12:10:54.947-08:00Selkie Hope grew up in the church, in a very liter...Selkie Hope grew up in the church, in a very literal sense. Their father was the fourth or fifth generation of believers in the family, and when Hope was a teenager, their overseer asked the family to move from Oklahoma to Missouri and take over what’s known as a “convention grounds”—a large property, often farmland, where the faithful periodically gather for days-long meetings to listen to Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-21746846325937111252023-11-23T12:09:36.154-08:002023-11-23T12:09:36.154-08:00For an overseer to be accused of sexual misconduct...For an overseer to be accused of sexual misconduct—or even sexual activity, given that workers are meant to be celibate—was already a serious scandal. As Smith’s letter began circulating through the community, though, the accusations spread too, rippling outward as in a pond that has been suddenly and violently disturbed. People began coming forward to say that Bruer was not the only one, and Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-46054687676902393842023-11-23T12:08:08.110-08:002023-11-23T12:08:08.110-08:00A Nameless, Insular Religious Sect Is Being Rocked...A Nameless, Insular Religious Sect Is Being Rocked by a Massive Sexual Abuse Scandal<br /><br />Known to outsiders as the “Two by Twos,” a little-known community is reckoning with a far-reaching scandal over sexual abuse, accountability, and power.<br /><br />By Anna Merlan VICE October 12, 2023<br /><br />The dead man was found in his hotel room, slumped over in a chair. It took six months more Perry Bulwerhttps://perry-bulwer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-30737662336833402282023-04-23T15:11:37.806-07:002023-04-23T15:11:37.806-07:00For my daughter and some, but not all, the most ob...For my daughter and some, but not all, the most obvious interpretation was about gender. Here were two men ganging up on one woman whose lifelong coping strategy has been to ignore sexist treatment and whose response to this debacle was to blame herself. But in the end Emily concluded that “maybe what was under attack here was not in fact womankind but skepticism. And lots of people really Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-29899472922391589342023-04-23T15:11:27.254-07:002023-04-23T15:11:27.254-07:00I staggered off the stage and found myself surroun...I staggered off the stage and found myself surrounded by people asking, “Are you all right? Do you feel okay?” and saying “You poor thing,” all of which baffled me. I guess I was still buzzing from the effort of concentrating and didn’t know what they meant. Then others started calling the men bullies, children, pathetic teen boys, and shouting about the outrage of two grown men turning on one Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-51282525900079346232023-04-23T15:09:59.958-07:002023-04-23T15:09:59.958-07:00With only ten minutes to go, I realized it was now...With only ten minutes to go, I realized it was now or never to ask my question. I grabbed the moment and jumped in with, “I would like, if it’s all right with you, to change the subject and ask a different question.” I reminded Chopra of our meeting ten years ago and then, to my own surprise and quite unplanned, I jumped up, leaned over him as he had done to me all those years ago, and repeated Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-63390968499354279002023-04-23T15:07:24.957-07:002023-04-23T15:07:24.957-07:00As ever, we got on well, talking about our lives, ...As ever, we got on well, talking about our lives, our meditation practice, our thoughts about consciousness, and our plans for the following evening. He said he was “done with debates,” and I didn’t mind that; I didn’t want to turn our event into a fight any more than he did. So, I suggested I might open with just a couple of minutes saying that I agreed with much of his spiritual teachings but Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-53382728723574987342023-04-23T15:06:07.417-07:002023-04-23T15:06:07.417-07:00My first, and rather dramatic, encounter with him ...My first, and rather dramatic, encounter with him took place ten years ago in a debate titled “The War of the World Views” with Menas Kafatos, Leonard Mlodinow, Chopra, and me (UofAConsciousness 2012). This was at the 2012 “Toward a Science of Consciousness” conference held every two years in Tucson, Arizona. Each of us began with a short lecture (UofAConsciousness 2013). I disagreed with Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-80437680784715249512023-04-23T15:01:52.173-07:002023-04-23T15:01:52.173-07:00How Spiritual Is Deepak Chopra?
Susan Blackmore
S...<b>How Spiritual Is Deepak Chopra?</b><br /><br />Susan Blackmore<br />SKEPTICAL INQUIRIER<br />From: Volume 47, No. 2<br />March/April 2023<br /><br />Deepak Chopra, Ayurvedic practitioner and famous promoter of mind-body medicine, is among the richest spiritual leaders in the world with ninety-five books to his name and a thriving, and very lucrative, alternative therapy business. He has Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-21589777058553942792022-12-18T16:18:40.213-08:002022-12-18T16:18:40.213-08:00Victims who believe their organization is mishandl...Victims who believe their organization is mishandling abuse allegations often have no one to appeal to. Complaints can only be dealt with internally.<br /><br />“We have mission boards who are accountable to no one but themselves who are funded by individual independent churches who are accountable to no one but themselves,” said Couts.<br /><br />In 2003, president George W. Bush signed the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-27067705261332268532022-12-18T16:18:33.168-08:002022-12-18T16:18:33.168-08:00Early whistleblowers including Couts and Van Reken...Early whistleblowers including Couts and Van Reken brought attention and ultimately change to many MK schooling options. In the past, boarding schools were considered standard for the children of missionaries—often starting at age six. Now only 4 percent of the 170 schools accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International offer boarding options.<br /><br />And yet, homeschooled MKsPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-91906624565190743412022-12-18T16:17:18.904-08:002022-12-18T16:17:18.904-08:00What Is a Missionary Kid Worth?
Risks remain high...What Is a Missionary Kid Worth?<br /><br />Risks remain higher in cross-cultural contexts. And misconduct is harder to report.<br /><br />by Rebecca Hopkins, Christianity Today, November 21, 2022 <br /><br />When Letta Cartlidge got on a plane as a teenager to leave her childhood home, she carried a secret. As the child of missionaries in Nigeria, she was sexually abused by a teacher at a Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-20196519556415271412022-06-17T15:14:31.998-07:002022-06-17T15:14:31.998-07:00That first RCMP class-action settlement covered fe...That first RCMP class-action settlement covered female officers who faced gender-based discrimination, harassment and assault.<br /><br />At the end of that process, 2,304 women were compensated. More than $125 million was paid to claimants and their lawyers with each victim eligible for a payout of between $10,000 and $220,000, depending on the level of harassment suffered.<br /><br />Unique to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-73434860425687719822022-06-17T15:14:21.359-07:002022-06-17T15:14:21.359-07:00Women working with RCMP suffered 'shocking'...<b>Women working with RCMP suffered 'shocking' levels of violence, sex assaults, says report</b><br /><br />Meghan Grant · CBC News · June 17, 2022<br /><br />Workplace pornography, sexual assault, racial slurs and grooming: those were some of the abuses suffered by women who worked and volunteered with the RCMP, according to a scathing report authored by three retired judges.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351157433332256814.post-48143051631919424172022-02-27T15:59:50.533-08:002022-02-27T15:59:50.533-08:00Yes, I think they can be. But I think we’ve got to...Yes, I think they can be. But I think we’ve got to start saying, what do we want police for? At the moment, they’re the default mechanism in society whenever we’ve got a problem. In terms of someone who is having a mental crisis, phone the police. Too often, you call the police and they shoot the person, because they don’t know how to deal with that. What we should be doing is we should be “Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com