Bits and bobs I’ve added to this blog, and changes that will affect some of my subscribers.

Items I’ve added to the Resources pages

Over the last year or so, I’ve added various items to to the Resources section of this blog. Unfortunately, I have not been keeping a list of items I’ve added, so I’m only going to be able to tell you some of them….that’s what comes from having suffered burnout.

Added to Recommended Books — for more info on each of these books click here

Andrew Bartlett —  Men and Women: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. I highly recommend this book. Of all the authors who are addressing the thorny issues of men and women in the church and in the home, Andrew Bartlett has impressed me the most. Bartlett pinpoints flaws in both complementarian and egalitarian viewpoints. He started off as a complementarian but in writing the book he came to believe that women can hold leadership positions in the church, and that in marriage the rights and obligations of men and women are not entirely equal because husbands have a greater obligation to self-sacrifice (be willing to die for their wives). Click here to read how Andrew Bartlett answers the question What is the worst mistranslation in our English Bibles relating to women?

Philip Payne — Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters

Jess Hill — See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Bonnie Badenoch — The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships 

Judith Herman — Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

Emma Katz — Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives 

Allan Wade et al, — Response Based Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Violence

Dr Jessica Taylor and Jaimi Shrive — Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals 2023 

Added to Children of Domestic Abuse

Dr Emma Katz — scroll down this link to find her podcasts. Her blog: Decoding Coercive Control.

Added to Sexual Abuse

Three women who discovered their husbands were child sexual abuse offenders. One of these women chose to stay, the other two chose to leave. The article’s original title could be off-putting, so I have not shown it in this link. The article does not recommend that a wife stay with her husband when she discovers her husband is a child sexual abuse offender.

Added to Books I DO NOT Recommend — for more info click here

Gary Thomas and Deborah Fileta — Married Sex: A Christian Couple’s Guide to Reimagining Your Love Life

To my subscribers

There are two ways people can subscribe to this blog so they receive an email whenever I publish a new post. Some of my subscribers originally signed up by MailChimp, using the pop-up form which shows on your screen when you visit my blog. Others subscribed by WordPress. I have found MailChimp is really hard for me to operate. It seems to be designed for people who are more geeky than me. So I’ve converted all my MailChimp subscribers to WordPress subscribers. I think (I hope!) that all who originally used the MailChimp pop-up to subscribe to my blog should still receive an email each time I publish a new post. However, if you are receiving TWO emails each time I publish a new post, and that annoys you, unsubscribe from one of those emails. If you receive an email about my latest post and click through to my blog, you might see the MailChimp pop-up, but you can ignore it. It disappears after a few moments.

If you want to subscribe to my blog, here are simple instructions.

You can also keep track of my posts at the A Cry For Justice Facebook page. However, for various reasons, I encourage anyone who wants to comment at one of my posts to comment at the website cryingoutforjustice.blog, rather than at Facebook. Comments made at Facebook are ephemeral, but comments made at this site are longer-lasting. Comments at this site are fully moderated, but comments at Facebook are not moderated before they’re published. I can only hide or delete or ban commenters at the ACFJ Facebook page after their comment has gone live. That’s one of the reasons I dislike Facebook — I think it’s not a safe platform for victims of abuse.

Updating the FAQ pages

I’ve also been slowly updating some of the FAQ pages. This is an ongoing task! Often it involves removing items written by Jeff Crippen, but I do that on a case-by-case basis, so it takes time and thought. It also involves changing “we” to “I” to make it clear that I am the sole leader of this blog. When the FAQ pages were first put together, Jeff and I co-led this blog so I used “we” in the FAQ pages to refer to us as co-leaders. But since Jeff resigned in late 2017, I have been the sole leader of this blog. (You can see how much I avoid tidying up the blog. I’d much rather be writing new posts. 😊)

Happy New Year to all my faithful readers. 😊