Comments on: Harvest Bible Chapel Acknowledges Failures, Still Claims Only Three Defendants https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/12/21/harvest-bible-chapel-acknowledges-failures-still-claims-only-three-defendants/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:57:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: SolarHacksaw https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/12/21/harvest-bible-chapel-acknowledges-failures-still-claims-only-three-defendants/#comment-99182 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:57:39 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=33876#comment-99182 In reply to Erp.

Or, they could be trying to pit the spouses against each other? Encouraging the wife to pressure the husband to give up, or worse, pressuring the wife to testify against her husband.

]]> By: Joe Misek https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/12/21/harvest-bible-chapel-acknowledges-failures-still-claims-only-three-defendants/#comment-99167 Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:49:54 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=33876#comment-99167 Nobody cares about them minimizing or marginalizing critics, or whatever other highroad-sounding Christianese they want to use. The public voices criticizing HBC care about the church minimizing and marginalizing everyone who witnessed the pastor being a bully or tyrant and dared to speak up. It’s a culture of silencing and intimidating people who witness duplicitous behavior in the leadership and in James.

The church wants the world to believe that every former elder who has spoken out about poor character behind the scenes is just disgruntled about the elder process or recent governance changes. So many different voices have spoken a remarkably consistent story about how, to quote Scot McKnight from earlier today, the person and the public persona of James MacDonald are quite different.

]]> By: Erp https://wthrockmorton.com/2018/12/21/harvest-bible-chapel-acknowledges-failures-still-claims-only-three-defendants/#comment-99166 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:46:20 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=33876#comment-99166 Perhaps harking back to the good old times (most notably Blackstone)? Husband and wife are one person (see coverture) and therefore they are only suing three people though two of them have two bodies.

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