sexual abuse – Red Letter Christians

Amid Recent SBC Report Release, Abuse Victim Advocate, Ashley Easter, Reaffirms Her Commitment to Uplifting Survivors

June 9, 2022

Last month an explosive report was released detailing the massive amount of abuse and cover up of abuse that has taken place within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over the past two decades. This was the...

A Review of #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing

Melanie Springer Mock

April 22, 2021

Books, Practical Justice, Theology

Allison’s work should compel Christians to contemplate the destruction wrought by purity culture, in our churches and homes and summer camps and institutions: in other words, every place where people thought they were safe, until the church leaders in their lives failed them, all in the name of purity.

Silence: The Facilitator of Clergy Abuse

Robyn Dyba

February 15, 2021

Church Life, Practical Justice, Women

The epidemic of clergy misconduct is not only the abuse itself, but the Silence that enables the abuse to continue to exponentially harm people. While perpetrators will always exist, the damage they do can be diminished and halted with a way to break through the Silence that protects power.

Bad Theology Promotes Sexual Abuse

Russell Meek

December 15, 2020

Church Life, Theology, Women

Genesis 1:27 is significant for those of us who once were blissfully unaware of the depths of abuse in our churches, for it secures our understanding of who and what people are. Despite any theology or ideology or actions to the contrary, people are people. They are not objects.