Shunning in the church
When a group shuns, it rejects someone who has belonged. Find out why shunning in the church hurts so much – and why you can overcome.
When church leaders bully people and reject God
The day I realized what I had been seeing for years, it broke my heart: church leaders bullying people, rejecting God, leading their followers to do the same.
Cries of the shunned
In the middle of that dark-valley time, I often found myself alone with God, crying aloud and writing passionately in my journal. During that time too, I came to identify with David, the shepherd-poet-warrior-king, in ways I had not before. For David was also ostracized by people he trusted. And he cried out in distress - and in faith.
I will change your name
I will change your name! From wounded, outcast, lonely, afraid. To Confidence, Joyfulness, Overcomer, Faithfulness, Friend and Seeker of God.
Case of the battered boundaries
Why, in midlife, did I suddenly find my boundaries battered and my adulthood denied? The answer hinged on the skewed view of womanhood in my church culture.
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 – and his good news for women
Waylaid by God, I saw Peter embrace good news he had resisted knowing. And I began to grasp, at last, God’s good news for women.
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?
What if the ways the Southern Baptist Convention has handled clergy sexual abuse in its midst reflect the ways a narcissistic abuser handles getting caught out?
Cliques in the church
Cliques are by nature, exclusive. Where they occur in the church, they fragment the church. They prevent the people of God from becoming one.