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The Grammar of Control: How One Word Exposes a Pastor (opens the original)
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If you want to know what a pastor truly believes about power, don’t look at the theological doctrine on his church website. Look at his pronouns.Revisiting an old podcast sermon from our former pasto… Read more
Clergy Institutional Grooming (opens the original)
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There’s been a lot of focus lately on clergy sexual abuse and grooming, especially after Death of a Pastor’s Wife dropped on Netflix.What the documentary glaringly missed, though, is exactly what The Roys Report and specialists in the field have picked up on and run with. Maybe that omission was intentional. Maybe the director realised that leaving out something so obvious would actually end up drawing more attention to it.Has anyone asked the director about this? Just saying…<div class="
Guarding the Flock (opens the original)
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Article by Martin Shadwick, originally published by The Gospel Coalition 28th April, 2021 https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/guarding-the-flock/Re-published with permissionThe last ten years have shown it is possible to be a Christian preacher with global influence, to have authored widely read books, to head an internationally recognised ministry, to be a household name among evangelicals, to be a leader of leaders—and yet to be a sexual predator or a narc
The Inversion of Discernment (opens the original)
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It’s a warm spring night, and I’m sitting outside on the back deck on our old couch. It’s been relegated out here after being well and truly wrecked by our golden retriever. We got her three years ago, right when our family needed a therapy dog more than anything. She destroyed practically everything in sight, but we love her to bits.Just this week, a neighbour gifted us a practically brand-new couch. So tonight, after covering up the holes in the old one—the same couch that moved with us all th
Safe Open Hands (opens the original)
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To those who no longer call themselves Christians, to those who maybe still have faith but cannot walk back into a church. To those who have tried, who have set foot in a church and have shrugged, shuddered and run out…Maybe not physically, but mentally you’ve run out crying. I hear you. I see you. I understand you.We set foot in a church nearly every week since leaving our high-control church that we can only call a cult. We set foot in this church because former members of our high-control chu
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