The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church

The university abuser of Rachael Denhollander graduated from the Sunday school of Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and when I took her to the Bible study classes of my parents, I started organizing every week. Construction He brought a gift from Denhollander and asked

The experience of these children and abuse of this kind of abuse in India has launched the "abuse" campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize winner Satyarthi. As part of its mission, Satyarthi advised Indian religious leaders - many of whom have millions of fans - to solve this problem. "I asked them to announce them in their congregation or television channel," Satyarthi explained. "I told them that child's sexual abuse should not be regarded as part of faith, resist it, I will abandon it," he is not a Hindu, Muslim nor a Christian. Influence "

When it is abused, it seems that there is a big blind spot in the Western Evangelical Church, and the leaders can effectively give advice in the situation of toxic marriage and abuse. Survivors of abuse should receive safe and informed care from their religious leaders. Unfortunately, this is not the case in many places of worship in the United States. Leaders say they are responsible for devoting themselves to Gomer in the Bible as firmly as Hosea, if they want to see abusers changing, more praying. Change anyone. What is the lesson about what abusers need to repent and permanently remove their harmful lifestyle? When we abuse others and change personal responsibility for life, where is the teaching about the consequences of nature?