Case of the battered boundaries
Why, in midlife, did I suddenly find my boundaries battered and my adulthood denied?
The forgotten key: Loving one-anothering
Our Lord is building his church. He told us what is key. “Love one another,” he said. When that is happening, all that embodies Christ’s love flows both ways.
Adulthood and the church that rejects it
Frustrated, exhausted, I realized: I would never count as an adult in my church system. Free at last, I’m embracing the adulthood God works in his own
Waylaid by God
What do you do when the Lord answers what you had not asked? This is where it began, my journey with God into his view of women and the church.
The abusers we have not seen
My first attempt to expose the abusers and abusive systems that hide in plain sight.
Is the SBC capable of Caring Well?
Many see the SBC #churchtoo issue as, primarily, a matter of wrongdoing on the part of some individuals and churches. But that approach gets us exactly the same place as when we try to figure out a narcissistic abuser by assuming he has the same qualities, feelings and motivations that truly caring people do.
Cliques in the church
Cliques are by nature, exclusive. Wherever they occur in the church landscape, they fragment the church. They prevent the people of God from becoming one.
Beth Moore and LifeWay: The ploy
When the "threat alarm" goes off in an abusive church system, the response is orchestrated and brutal. But it's church: Appearances must be kept up. People loyal to the system confuse while pretending to clarify, cover-up while pretending to address, attack while seeming to answer, put-down while pretending to help.
Dear Beth Moore and LifeWay: My plea
Behind the scenes at Living Proof Live, I'd found a celebrity culture - not the "one anothering" of the church of the living God. So with all my heart, I cried out for change.
Behind the scenes at Living Proof Live
This is what happened when I served as onsite leader for a Beth Moore Living Proof Live event. It’s a peek into celebrity culture, the exploitation and manipulation of women and abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention.