The Facts. — stories
Stories.
First-person accounts from people the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church has withdrawn from, cut off, sued, schooled, or employed. On-record by explicit written consent. Reviewed by the contributor before publication. Removable at their request. Never used for a joke.
Intake open — first stories in review
How we’ll publish.
Testimony is editorial work. Every story that lands here will go through the same pipeline:
- Intake. You send us a draft in your own words, privately. See the contact options below.
- Editorial pass. We edit for clarity and factual sourcing, not tone. Your voice stays yours.
- Consent on file. You sign off in writing on the final draft, your byline (or pseudonym), any identifying detail, and whether specific people, dates, or places should be redacted.
- Publish. The story ships with a clear consent statement, an edit history, and a removal contact.
- Takedown on request. If you later ask us to take it down, we do. Promptly. No argument.
Where a contributor needs anonymity, we publish under a pseudonym or as a composite account and mark that clearly. Where a named individual appears in a story, we limit detail to what a named public-record source (court document, parliamentary submission, mainstream-journalism piece) already carries.
What we will not do.
- Publish identifying detail without your explicit written consent.
- Use your story to make a joke. Register C (the snarky mirror) and testimony do not share pages.
- Sell, syndicate, or license your story to anyone else. We publish it; you own it.
- Name private minors, spouses, or relatives unless they are already named in a public-record source and you have asked us to.
- Keep your story up after you ask us to take it down.
Send a story.
Two routes, pick the one you’re comfortable with:
- Send a confidential tip — the primary intake. This is the route to use if you want any identifying detail off GitHub.
- Open a GitHub issue — only when there is no identifying detail you need to keep off a public repo. We will move the conversation off GitHub before any draft is written.
If you’re in crisis or need support now, start with the Resources page. This site is a signpost, not a crisis service.