How an Abuse Victim Might be Guilted by Some Christian Hymns

I am in my church office on a Sunday morning going over my sermon notes and listening to our worship music leaders practice. Among other pieces, they will be leading us in this well-known and widely cherished Fanny Crosby classic, Blessed Assurance [Internet Archive link]1. (Most of you probably know that Fanny Crosby was blind.)… Continue reading How an Abuse Victim Might be Guilted by Some Christian Hymns

Dealing with an overactive conscience

One of our readers, Hislovejoy, sent us this request: I really appreciate Dr. George Simon’s work (and wish the friends my ex has turned against me would read and understand it all). I love his distinction between “neurotics” and a character-disordered controller. I have come to see that I have a VERY overactive conscience which… Continue reading Dealing with an overactive conscience