Monthly Archives: June, 2016
Thursday Thought — Book Highlight: The Sociopath Next Door
Pastor Crippen has this to say about Martha Stout’s book, Sociopath Next Door: I would like to get [this book] into the hands of every person in our church. . . Then maybe we would all start getting it when Scripture tells us there are evil people in this world. The blurb from Amazon includes this paragraph: …
Be Done With Church Leaders who Prove Themselves to be Blind Guides
Here is what Jesus had to say about the established “clergy” of His day. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” And he called …
Coercive Control, Safety Zones, and Search and Destroy Missions — insights from Evan Stark
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan Stark (Oxford University Press, 2007). (affiliate link). Evan Stark brings illuminating analysis and insight into the topic of coercive control as it takes place in domestic abuse. And as the subtitle How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life makes clear, he focuses on how men coercively control women …
The silence of our friends — by Aimee Byrd, from Housewife Theologian
We’ve been betrayed. This is something that has disturbed me, as well as a handful of other women writers, for a while now. We’ve tried to respectfully engage, and we have been ignored. Completely. So I put a few rocks in my snowballs and threw them out, hoping the sting would provoke some men to …
Differences Between an Abusive Marriage and a Healthy One — a reblog from Give Her Wings
Many thanks to Megan C for giving us permission to reblog her article. So many times, women who have left abusive relationships hop right out of the frying pan and into the fire because a man comes along who is a tiny bit “better” than the former abuser. It is so difficult to see that …
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