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… victim needs to be more important than the industry (or church, or school, or denomination) “looking good” or … background checks, and has initiated a program called Safe Sport which educates about abuse in athletics and …
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… conversation about abuse, one that rarely happens in church settings where issues of abuse, if they are talked … from the outside will be one of the forces that compel churches to start talking about abuse openly and pave the way towards an environment that is safe for those hurting from all kinds of abuse. What do you …
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… Abuse and the churches’ basically consistent failure up to this day to care … credibility. Sometimes when I’m feeling despair about the church, I’ll read the comments section of the latest abuse … tradition are present which would make the church a safe place for the vulnerable? What can Christians offer, and …
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… with the opposite sex. In ministry, for example, church leaders who abuse may pretend to be “progressive” by … meeting alone with a member of the opposite sex in the church—as a cover for initiating the grooming process and … to take place while maintaining clear transparency. Safe Church provides an invaluable set of guidelines to think …
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… One of the most persistent hindrances to creating a safe and healthy environment is a culture accustomed to … and enabled by our culture, both outside and within the church. We are not comfortable confronting the truth that the … to deny they hurt, to shrug if off and move on. Often the church teaches this kind of denial by insisting on a …
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… Since that time, the prevalence of spiritual abuse in the church has continued to fascinate me, not just for … and abusive authority is one that few denominations or churches can resist entirely. Several events in the news in … (happiness and holiness guaranteed by adherence to the church’s rigid code of beliefs and behaviors)—so survivors of …
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… Drew and Robin Paterson recently contacted Safe Church to alert us to the troubling problem of … on children and ways to protect children, please see Safe Church's Pornography Awareness resources . Dear Mr. … Our family attends one of the Christian Reformed Churches in Colorado. Over the past year, we have faced some …
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… the loss of what could have been, what should have been: a safe, unified family, absent of abuse and tragedy. Instead, … and responding to abuse; they also have a workshop for churches to learn how to prevent sexual abuse within their …