Are There Really 2 Sides to Every Story?
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been killing it this week. Between educating readers about Voddie Baucham’s creepy views of daughters and the...
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- Nov 11, 2021
- 4 min
Sexual Abuse is Abuse. Never Sex.
A few years ago at an advocacy event, I met Gretchen Baskerville while she was working on her much-needed book The Life-Saving Divorce:...
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- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
Sexual Abuse is not a Mistake nor is it Love
People.com needs to do better Recently People.com ran a brief article on Mary Kay Letourneau, who died at the age of 58 in 2020 from...
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- Feb 23, 2021
- 6 min
Twitter Theology and Abuser Allies 2
Since I wrote my last post on my concern regarding Christian leaders identifying with Ravi Zacharias instead of with his victims, I...
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- Feb 18, 2021
- 5 min
Twitter Theology and Abuser Allies
Last Friday on February 12, Owen Strachan, Baptist theologian, likely in response to the recent confirmations of Ravi Zacharias' abuses...
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- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Victim-Blaming: Do Intentions Matter?
The truth is that my intentions, and/or your intentions, do not determine whether or not victim-blaming has occurred.
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 7 min
Let's Agree to Stop the Victim Blaming
If you want to create a safer environment for the vulnerable, there are ways to do so, but blaming victims is not the way. In fact, blaming
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- Jun 6, 2020
- 6 min
Holding the Tension
This article was originally published on The Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth website. It seems like everyday over the last few...
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- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
3 Things My Ministers Did Right in Response to Abuse
This article was originally published on The Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth website. In June 2000, a courageous 12-year-old...
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- Jun 6, 2020
- 3 min
4 Ways to Create an Unwelcome Space for Abusers
This article was originally published on The Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth website. The last season has confirmed that the...
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- Jun 6, 2020
- 4 min
Recognizing Abuse
This article was originally published on The Institute for Collective Trauma and Growth website. Following the #metoo movement in our...
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- Aug 28, 2019
- 5 min
What's with the Standing Ovations?
Christian Leader Scandals and Grooming from the Pulpit The last few years have revealed a hideous underbelly within Evangelical culture -...
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- Aug 28, 2019
- 4 min
Let's talk about Bathsheba's Husband Uriah
A while ago in October 2019, there was a Twitter kerfuffle about King David. It began like this: Matt Smethurst, a managing editor at The...
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