Category: Sexual Abuse & Church
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PCUSA Ordination Exam on Judges 19
(Content warning: sexual assault) Yesterday two friends messaged me to ask: “Have you heard the news? The PCUSA announced the text for the Winter Ordination exam: Judges 19.” While I have stepped aside from doing “hot takes” on breaking news about sexual assault, I am choosing to respond. After all, this is my wheelhouse. I…
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The MeToo Art Project: Together We Are Breaking the Silence
Pieces from the MeToo Art Project will be on display throughout January 2020 at The Emporium in downtown Knoxville, TN.
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Survivor Care: What Religious Professionals Need to Know About Healing Trauma, a book review
I reviewed Christy’s Sims book “Survivor Care: What Religious Professionals Need to Know About Healing Trauma” for the Christian Century. Read the review here. You can order Survivor Care here. (an Amazon affiliate link.)
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Shame: Hope & Healing
Leading a workshop for church professionals around the topic of Shame was a powerful experience.
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Shame Thermometer or Shame Thermostat?
I want to become a Shame thermostat. I want to lower the temperature of Shame.
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“Raped Perfectly”
“People want you to have been raped perfectly.” That’s how Amy Schumer summed it up . . .
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
A friend posted this on Facebook, and I thought it should get a wider airing. Here’s her story: So today I had a strange and unsettling experience of finding out that there was a traffic court case that has been on my record for three years without my knowledge. But when a 2nd small traffic…
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Confronting Contempt, the Seed-bed of Abuse
Women know contempt from the inside out, even when we don’t use the word. Contempt feeds sexual abuse.
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A Strange Elation
Ever since the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump and Billy Bush surfaced on Oct 7, the media has been saturated with news about sexual assault. Like many other women, I have often felt jangled during the past ten days. But I have also felt a strange elation. At last we are talking openly about…
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“The Damage is Done, No One Can Undo It.”
By now you have no doubt read the details of Brock Allen Turner’s rape conviction at Stanford, including the letter his victim wrote. It’s a powerful letter, and I hope you’ll read it.?I took special note of a couple of sentences: ?You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my…