A Victim-Silencing Abuser-Protecting Tactic of the Wicked – “An Evil ‘Pious’ Silence”

Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit. (Psalm 35:19-20) As we have written in other posts, it is very characteristic of… Continue reading A Victim-Silencing Abuser-Protecting Tactic of the Wicked – “An Evil ‘Pious’ Silence”

Dealing with Abusive Men (a reblog from My Only Comfort by Ps Sam Powell)

They have greatly oppressed me from my youth, let Israel say —they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked. May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. May they be like… Continue reading Dealing with Abusive Men (a reblog from My Only Comfort by Ps Sam Powell)