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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

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Women, false responsibility and the church

  • Post published:January 11, 2025
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 19, 2025

A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church but often hidden in a fog. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.

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Case of the battered boundaries

  • Post published:August 6, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

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.

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Whatever happened to loving one another?

  • Post published:July 31, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

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.

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Adulthood and the church that rejects it

  • Post published:July 23, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 10, 2025

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

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God who inspires the prophets

  • Post published:September 26, 2013
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:March 11, 2024

“The angel said to me, ‘These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must…

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