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Showing posts with label CHRISTIAN ABUSE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHRISTIAN ABUSE. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2015

MANY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES DISINTERESTED AND BIBLICALLY ILLITERATE ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!

Nicola Menzie of "The Christian Post" states as follows:
"The issue of domestic violence took center stage earlier this month when video emerged of NFL player Ray Rice punching wife Janay Rice inside of an Atlantic City elevator. The ugly event prompted numerous discussions, including introspective ones among Christians about how church leadership handles, or mishandles cases of domestic abuse. According to one survivor, biblical illiteracy among church leaders actually enabled her abuser.
Autumn Miles, founder of The Blush Network and author of the Appointed: Your Future Starts Now, spoke with The Christian Post about her own past as a domestic abuse victim and how growing up as a preacher's kid in a conservative church actually enabled her abuser.

According to a LifeWay Research survey published in June, pastors seldom preach about domestic violence, although a majority of these leaders consider domestic violence to be a pro-life issue.
"Researchers found about 4 in 10 (42 percent) pastors 'rarely' or 'never' speak about domestic violence. Less than a quarter (22 percent) speak to their church about the issue once a year," LifeWay reported..."

Read more at 

http://www.christianpost.com/news/author-and-abuse-survivor-disciplined-by-church-for-wanting-divorce-says-biblical-illiteracy-can-perpetuate-domestic-violence-124931/#FBm72OokJcscYKks.99

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

LYZ LENZ OF "BUZZFEED" STATES MANY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TEACH COMPLICITY WITH ABUSE!

Lyz Lenz of "Buzzfeed" states the following:

"Although my parents currently attend an Episcopalian church, swear, and drink a lot of wine, my family resembles the independent Baptist Duggars — America’s most famous Evangelicals — in many ways, one tragic. When my sister, then age 15, reported that she had been sexually abused by someone in our family, she was counseled by family members and church leaders that prosecution would make things worse. Better to forgive, they told her, and find true reconciliation with God. She was also warned that criminal proceedings would tear her family apart. And because she loved her family, she relented. After all, she was a child with nowhere else to go. She had been taught that her whole world was her family and her church, and they all conspired to keep her silent with the admonition to forgive. And forgiveness so often means complicity..."

For more on this topic, please click on the link below:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyzlenz/how-evangelical-churches-protect-abusers-like-josh-duggar?fb_ref=mobile_share