Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
I let him abuse me to keep him from abusing me. The problem with fundamentalist Christian culture isn’t that it doesn’t teach rape is wrong, but that it doesn’t know what rape actually is. Fundamentalist Christian culture taught me that if it wasn’t violent or you didn’t cry for help, that wasn’t rape, that was… Continue reading I Let My Husband Rape Me, and Here’s Why… — by Amber Barnhill
I think it's crucial to highlight the myriad stories of church domestic abuse, including the impacts such abuse can have on children. My first memory of violence is of being dragged to my room by my panicked mother, who wanted my siblings and me — I was very young — to be quiet before my… Continue reading Shattering the silence: James’s Story of growing up with an abusive father
