Resistance and backlash to social change

If you are working to promote social change, you can expect to meet resistance. Resistance may occur in any setting (e.g. a local church, or the Christian community at large). It may come from individuals or collectively, and from men or women. When it comes to social change, people (and organisations) are on a continuum,… Continue reading Resistance and backlash to social change

Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children

Trigger warning. "It's like the abuser's evil was shared with me and in a sense I became one with it." The sexual intimacy a woman has with her husband means that they are "one flesh" — whatever that phrase means. For me, the pollution of an abuser having sexual intercourse with me affected me to… Continue reading Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children