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
Women who were married to abusive priests and pastors are for the first time revealing their experiences of sexual assault, control and fear. They say the church has known for decades that some clergy abuse their wives but has done very little to fix the ongoing problem. Raped, tracked, humiliated: Clergy wives speak out about… Continue reading #churchtoo Raped, tracked, humiliated: Clergy wives speak out about domestic violence
