For faith leaders and other supporters of adult survivors of child sexual abuse
Talking to survivors about love is complicated. Often those of us who have lived through childhood sexual abuse were told horrible lies about love. Now, as adults, it can be difficult to sort out. We sometimes don’t know whether we can believe anything that anyone says about love. So, as a supporter of survivors, very…
Love. A word so often used, but so rarely defined. People say they love a certain store, or mac’n’cheese, or a special sports team. Worse, they may say they love you but deliberately do things that harm you. So what is love? Of course we can barely scratch the surface in one short blog, but…
January 2026, Bearing Witness #4 – Finally, it’s important to bear witness to others. When we tell people some of what God has done, when we proclaim aloud the Lord’s wonderful works, it can encourage others and it can encourage us too. We have to be careful, though. -We must never betray a confidence and…
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