A Scriptural response to the question of adult children with controlling parents following the command “Children obey your parents.”
via “(Adult) children obey your parents”? Part 2, for adults raised in Patriarchy — Here’s the Joy
Tag: False Teachings
My Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse by Ally Kern, guest post on The Junia Project blog
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Please share to raise awareness in your circles! “I thought my dreams were about to come true when I [finally] got married. I left my family, friends, and my job as a pastor in Canada to move to the U.S. for love. I had waited a long time to…
via My Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse — The Junia Project
Nothing like The Sheep Sermon to make you feel stupid, disgusting, and useless — -by Rebecca Davis @ Here’s the Joy blog
Not long ago I visited a church where I got to hear The Sheep Sermon again. It had been quite a while, years I guess. But The Sheep Sermon hadn’t changed a whole lot over the years. It even still had the part about the broken leg.
via Nothing like The Sheep Sermon to make you feel stupid, disgusting, and useless — Here’s the Joy
This is What Enables Evil to Hide in Our Churches — A Cry For Justice blog by pastor/ex-cop Jeff Crippen
This post is difficult for me to write because I have lived it so many, many times. The subject gets my blood pressure, dander, ire and anger “up” big time. I hate this stuff. It is soooo prevalent in our churches and there is no excuse for it. This time, as is so common, it […]
via This is What Enables Evil to Hide in Our Churches — A Cry For Justice
From Complementarian to Egalitarian: My Story by Jenn Dieringer— The Junia Project
I was 32 years old before I heard the word egalitarian. My universe was very small growing up. I, sort of, realized there was a Christian culture outside of my soft patriarchal, quiverfull one. But that’s how it was always understood. Being out there, on the fringe, barely Christian, if they were Christian at all.…
via From Complementarian to Egalitarian: My Story — The Junia Project
Things I Wish You Understood: An Open Letter to Ministers From a Family Violence Survivor (via TGC Australia) — Speakingtruthinlove’s Blog
Originally posted on A Cry For Justice: This stupendous article by an anonymous woman was published yesterday at The Gospel Coalition Australia. Things I Wish You Understood: An Open Letter to Ministers From a Family Violence Survivor To the ministers of the church universal I am a family violence survivor. It seems weird to me…
How Lori Alexander’s Teachings May Keep Women in Abusive Relationships. – by Spiritual Sounding Board blog
Lori Alexander, Emotional Abuse, Headship, Submission -by Kathi I’ve been reading Lori Alexander’s blogs for quite a while now. Just when I think her writing is the same old boring rhetoric she always blathers on about, she ups her game. Her recent post, “How Not to Get Married” is one that actually should be titled, […]
via How Lori Alexander’s Teaching May Keep Women in Abusive Relationships — Spiritual Sounding Board
The Gospel Rules for Friendship From John Piper’s Desiring God Leave Me Exhausted on The Wartburg Watch blog
A bunch of made up questions to let you know, definitively, if you are in a sinful friendship.
via The Gospel™ Rules for Friendship From John Piper’s Desiring God Leave Me Exhausted —
The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22 – Marie O’Toole’s blog
When the call to ‘submit’ is wielded like a weapon, it is a sure sign that the follow-up verses on “loving [you] wife as Christ loved the Church” are not being obeyed. Christ never intimidates or t…
Source: The Hi-jacking of Ephesians 5:22
GBFSV SPIRITUAL ABUSE VICTIMS' RECOVERY 