Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there. (Gen 24:6) A "Hoover" is a metaphor taken from the popular brand of vacuum cleaners, to describe how an abuse victim (trying to assert her own rights by leaving or limiting contact in a dysfunctional relationship), gets “sucked back… Continue reading Don’t Get Sucked in by the “Hoovering” Vacuum of the Abuser
In following the story of Marie Notcheva over at The Wartburg Watch, I read the following comment by a "friend" of Marie's on Facebook. I decided to highlight this comment here in a post because THIS tactic of threatening God's wrath for exposing evil in a church is really rather common. Here is what this… Continue reading How the Threat of God’s Wrath is Used to Silence Abuse Victims
