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“I think it is fair to say that most of us (men included) have encountered spiritual abuse in one form or another and for the most part we endure and press on. But the structural patriarchy that suffuses so much … Continue reading →

After a temporary hiatus from the spiritual abuse blog series while I traveled south to Pennsylvania and west to Oregon, I’m back in Boxford again, stationed at my computer, and ready to pick up where we left off. Statements I … Continue reading →

Last night, on the train home from the Philadelphia airport, I sat behind a black youth and wondered if, along with his backpack, he was also carrying a load of apprehension that something could go terribly wrong as he made … Continue reading →

According to statistics, by the age of eighteen one in three American women has been sexually abused. A statistic like this doesn’t stop at the church door. It marches right on in. This disturbing figure doesn’t include boys who are … Continue reading →

It is summer, after all. So I’m temporarily suspending the spiritual abuse series while I travel west to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday. Both Phil Monroe and I will resume that important discussion in a week or so. In the … Continue reading →

“Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too. … We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.”            —Sheryl Sandberg In 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal … Continue reading →

When I was in my twenties I listened as my uncle, a highly respected medical doctor in Oregon, was describing the kinds of conversations he had with patients who had been battered by their husbands. I never will forget his … Continue reading →

“You see things I don’t see.”  I could hardly believe my ears! The fact that these were the first words my father spoke to me after reading a chapter I’d written in Lost Women of the Bible profoundly impacted me. … Continue reading →

“The discussions may be difficult, but the positives are many. We cannot change what we are unaware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”    —Sheryl Sandberg One of the risks of initiating an online discussion on … Continue reading →

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela What better way to celebrate the blessings of our freedoms than by … Continue reading →