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My experience with pastors and domestic violence

After having reviewed the book, Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know, on a previous blog entry, I would like to add my own account of how pastors dealt with me when I tried to get help as a victim of domestic violence.
At the time I was going to two churches. I attended the [...]

12 Days in a Verbally Abusive Environment

No good tree bears bad fruit,
nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.
People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briars.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart,
and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored [...]

Domestic Abuse I - Defining Abuse in Domestic Violence

This is the first of twelve posts based on literature I received at a local shelter serving victims of domestic abuse. I will be adding some information based on my own experience with domestic abuse. I have been given permission to post this material, but will not disclose the source because I am currently making [...]