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 [...]
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 [...]
Verbal abuse is abuse just as much as physical abuse is. The psychological effects are the same.
A summary of Patricia Evans’ categories of verbal abuse from her book, The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond. A few of the phrases have been added from my experience with verbal abuse as [...]
