Today's post is an anonymous, personal reflection on the experience of sexual exploitation in childhood. The reflection also draws on the biblical story of Amnon’s rape of Tamar (2 Samuel 13). On the one hand this is a declaration reminiscent of #MeToo, but it is also an expression of defiant and articulate silence and a… Continue reading Silence As Defiance: Tamar’s Desolation — a reblog from The Shiloh Project
Tag: victims’ resistance
A Letter to the Church – The Things I Couldn’t Tell You
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man… Continue reading A Letter to the Church – The Things I Couldn’t Tell You

