Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Another person who attended Jeff Crippen's church has testified1 that he manipulated and controlled people. Here is this person's testimony: I too attended Jeff Crippen’s church for several years. I agree with what Sister has stated. He was a former police officer. I thought this may have been where he learned some techniques to manipulate… Continue reading Another person testifies that Jeff Crippen manipulated and controlled his congregants.
Police ticket shows that William (Liam) Goligher engaged in sexual activity with a female partner in a public park in the daytime. Goligher and his co-adulterer hid this for years.
Victims usually stay with abusers because they face entrapment barriers that prevent them from leaving. "Churches must evaluate the entrapment barriers they create and perpetuate that keep victims entrapped in abuse," says Andrea Aleksandrova in her superb article Becoming A Safe Church: How churches can become safe spaces for victims of domestic abuse. I am… Continue reading Churches must evaluate the entrapment barriers they create and perpetuate that keep victims entrapped in abuse — Andrea Aleksandrova
I am angry and grieving about Liam Goligher being a wolf in shepherd's clothing. Nine years ago he and a married woman Susan Elzey (a deaconess at his church) were both arrested and pled guilty to committing an offence in a public park. Goligher and Elzey kept this secret from the church for nine years!… Continue reading Liam Goligher turns out to be a wolf in shepherd’s clothing
Does "one flesh" refer to the act of sexual intercourse? Or does it signify kinship? Joshua Butler argues in Beautiful Union that "one flesh" means sexual intercourse. ...one flesh zeroes in much more directly on the center of sex itself: bodily union. ... One flesh is about the merging of two separate bodies into one.… Continue reading What does “one flesh” signify? Fictive kinship? Or sexual intercourse? (Butler Series)
Why would I keep writing about Josh Butler and Beautiful Union when most people who were talking about it have moved on? I will keep writing on Butler because I believe that Butler's thesis greatly enables men who abuse their long-term female intimate partners, and this fact has not been sufficiently attended to yet by… Continue reading The neglect of intimate partner abuse in the advocacy community (Butler series)
A Cry For Justice 