Joshua Butler Digest

An abuse survivor’s poetic critique of Josh Butler’s "Beautiful Union" The neglect of intimate partner abuse in the advocacy community Is the Great Sex Rescue’s research peer reviewed? Let’s have an in-depth discussion. — This guest post by Andrea Aleksandrova is about how Sheila Wray Gregoire used the Josh Butler controversy to focus attention on… Continue reading Joshua Butler Digest

Bad priests do not triage the problems, they just pontificate from their skull brains (Butler Series)

How to be a bad priest:— Write about sex without triaging the problem of sexual trauma. Use language that will re-traumatise survivors of trauma. Characterise all sexual abuse as “violent acts”. Repeat divorce platitudes that you think are true because they’ve been recycled ad infinitum in Christendom. Utter a smidgeon of apology…with an empathy deficit.