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An Open Letter to Survivors of Abuse

Dear survivors of abuse, What happened to you was not your fault. You are not to blame. You did not deserve it. You did not...

On the Necessity of Transparency in Title IV Proceedings

At the 2018 General Convention, the House of Bishops offered a Listening Liturgy to acknowledge and lament the pain caused by clergy and others...

The Dangers of Subculture

By Sarah Puryear The recent Amazon Prime documentary Shiny Happy People is a devastating and incisive examination of the form of Christianity followed by the...

ACNA’s Scandals and Mine

Reading an article the other day about recent sexual abuse scandals in ACNA, I found myself enjoying it. I don’t know if an ugly...

When There Isn’t Safety at Home

By Justin Holcomb Recent quarantining due to the COVID-19 pandemic leaves many people vulnerable to suffering abuse when isolated in a dangerous situation at home. Many...

A Priest’s Cautionary Narrative

It seems still difficult to talk about all the ways in which laity abuse clergy. The power does not always lie on the side of the ordained.

Celibacy, Abuse, and the Formation of Desire

The clergy sexual abuse crisis is not born from a lack of sexual partners, but from disordered sinful desires acted out in predatory ways.

God is (Not) an Old Man in the Sky

The God we worship is beyond our imagining, our language, our control.

A Shocking History

What happened at church-run Native American boarding schools was abusive, traumatic, and buried.

Bishop: ‘No More’ to Abuse

Bishop Scott B. Hayashi is part of a series of TV ads that say “No More” to the abuse of women.

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