As followers of Jesus, we are called to minister to everyone in church including sex offenders, but we should never do so in isolation from child protection professionals or in ignorance of the harm done to their victims. Simon Bass explains why.
Read MoreIf you are a Christian and also an advocate, sometimes you have a strained relationship with the Church. It is a struggle borne by many. GRACE Board Member Victor Veith explains why.
Read MoreSomething is wrong when churches protect perpetrators and marginalize victims. Mary DeMuth shares what happens when churches prefer predators, cover up sexual abuse, and demand victims forgive and forget.
Read MoreBoz Tchividjian provides his analysis of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ohio v. Clark.
Read MoreThe mishandling of sibling sexual abuse disclosures in the Duggar family has brought to the surface a painful topic that most of us would prefer to pretend doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, that is not an option.
Read MoreThe most important voices to speak into the issue of abuse are those who have been victimized. These heroes can teach all of us so much if we simply take the time to turn down our own voices so that we can truly listen to what they have to say. One such survivor shares her personal experience of being sexually assaulted in her home.
Read MoreSexual offenders have perfected a grand deception that sadly seems to work all too well inside faith communities.
Read MoreA Proposal for a Federal International Mandated Reporting Law
Read MoreA disturbingly common legal maneuver is utilized by attorneys across the United States which ends up discouraging victims from coming forward, David Clohessy explains.
Read MoreSome concluding thoughts on April’s annual Sexual Abuse Awareness Month.
Read MoreThe most profound theological questions posed often come from survivors of abuse. In this article, GRACE Board Member Victor Vieth writes what happened when a survivor of abuse asked him a haunting question
Read MoreIn this interview with memoirist Trudy Metzger, the truth is revealed about how the deep physical, emotional, and spiritual pains caused by childhood trauma cannot obscure a loving God who crosses the road and gets down into the dirt with the hurting and brutalized.
Read MoreWhy do so many churches fail to do the right thing when they learn that one of their own has been accused of sexual abuse? All too often it’s because the victimized are repeatedly overshadowed by the need to protect a “righteous” reputation.
Read MoreThere is increasing pressure to be “radical” for Jesus, but what does this mean? Is this a good thing? Boz interviews a young man who had bought into this “radical” Christianity to learn more. What is revealed is a cautionary tale that is worth exploring.
Read MoreIn the past 20 years, I have come across many situations where folks have found themselves conflicted about whether to say something after observing unsettling behavior between an adult and a child. Unfortunately, too many have decided it’s best to remain silent.
Read MoreToo often attitudes on foreign policy are imbued with ethnocentric undertones. We rightly mourn the loss of life in the womb and the death of U.S. soldiers, but often we are not moved by the massive collateral damage of war overseas.
Read MoreWe have witnessed a seemingly new boldness to communicate incredibly wounding and cruel words to victims of abuse. In his latest piece, Boz Tchividjian shares how words matter to a survivors.
Read MoreRe-examining the value of human life—at all stages.
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