Okay #readathon friends, I hit a wall and totally burned out and had to nap for a few hours and eat dinner and just give my brain a break, since I'd been up since 5 am and spent most of the day reading heavy grad school stuff, but I'm back to it now feeling refreshed! Still going to go to bed at a good time though, I don't do all-nighters. 😂 #deweysreadathon #deweys24hourreadathon @DeweysReadathon #24b4Monday
Ever find a book so full of timely truth that you want to inhale it?
“Over and over, parents, congregations, and religious leaders deny abuse reports regardless of the weight of the evidence…Unspeakable damage can occur when we deny the possibility that a pastor who powerfully communicates God‘s word on Sunday could beat his wife or molest his daughter on Monday.“
Recognizing that evil might be resident among us is Step 1: Opening our eyes.
In only the first half hour this book, I can tell I‘m going to love it. If you‘ve ever experienced abuse, you‘ll find it validating from the first pages. It addresses the spiritual roots of abuse—of evil—and calls on the Church to “stop revictimizing survivors and begin facilitating their healing.” (James R. Beck) In Light of the #metoo and #churchtoo movements, the Church has a second chance to champion victims and call abusers to account.
Starting this now. I‘m in a much better place mentally than I was on Friday. I‘m hoping that holds out with the absolute BS I know this book is going to contain. I‘ve been waiting to read this book for a while. It‘s come in from the waitlist. I‘ve got my restart of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows on standby in case I need a break; otherwise that‘s next.
#boyerased #garrarsconley #conversioncamp #childabuse #spiritualabuse
