The Importance of Language Surrounding Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse
The sociological concept of “moral entrepreneurs” explains how people with power shape what is considered right or wrong. In religious communities, leaders often act as moral entrepreneurs. To create safer communities, church leaders and congregants must change the way they talk about abuse and the way they respond to it.
Finding Language for Healing: A Survivor-Therapist’s Guide to Getting Started
I didn’t plan on marrying a narcissist or getting caught in a high-control religious system—but I did. For a long time, I didn’t have words for what I was going through.
You Are the Author of Your Story
When I first left, I didn’t tell many people about my past or background. I wanted to put it all behind me and move on with my life now that I had my freedom. But I had experienced so much disempowerment that I was struggling to move on. I slowly began writing down my story, and I discovered great healing in the process of putting my experience into words.
Book Review: A Church Called Tov
In A Church Called Tov, by Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer, it’s all about the root and the soil. It’s all about character and culture and what is allowed to thrive and what is tamped down into compliance and told to hush because ‘we don’t talk about such things,’ ‘that’s gossip’, ‘you need to trust that we as leadership have this in hand.’
This book may not be for everyone, but it’s pretty darn close.