When Church Hurts: Part 2
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts Speaking out against wrongs being perpetrated in the church . . . that was my most egregious sin. And because of it, I had lies told about me,...
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by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts One day I received a call from the new pastor at another church in the same town. They were looking for a person to direct the choir and lead...
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by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts For a few years, I had the privilege of serving in my church in several ways. I took classes, my husband and I took care of a significant portion...
View ArticleWhen Church Hurts Part 6
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts Though we never had a meeting with Elliot or the leadership, I was again asked to teach a class and was also helping with a conference that our...
View ArticleAccountable To Whom?
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal It continues to disturb me how many parallels there are between my church experience and the continuing Mars Hill drama! Apparently Mark...
View ArticleMagic Words Syndrome
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal I recently re-read a couple of the emails (or nasty-grams, as I call them) I received from one of the board members of my old church. It was...
View ArticleJournal Entry, April 1, 2010
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts If you’ve ever wondered what goes on inside the head of a person who is mired in spiritual abuse, this is an example. It is an entry from the...
View ArticleDay 2 of 21 Days of Healing: Reclaim Your Power – Part 1
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts First, let me remind you that if you are walking through these 21 Days of Healing, keep working on Day 1. “God loves you with an everlasting love.”...
View ArticleDay 3 of 21 Days of Healing: Reclaiming Your Own Power Part 2
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts If you are following the 21 Days of Healing, please remember to continue to work on changing your brain. You will want to continue to replace the...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Churches Deal With Disagreement?
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal Yesterday I sat in the school car park being entertained by the behaviour of the man who had desperately wanted to be ‘king’ at my ex-church....
View ArticleNot Quoting Quiverfull: Hanging Onto Your Faith After Leaving
by Jennifer C. Martin from the Patheos blog Unfundamentalist Christian and Jezebel.com – How Sexism in the Church Almost Ruined My Life Churches that devalue women are contributing to the breakdown of...
View ArticleIs This Your Pastor?
by Ellen cross posted from her blog When Church Hurts Here is another interesting article on Covert Narcissism – specifically in the pastorate. As I read the indicators, I was again nodding my head in...
View Article‘Bloom Where You’re Planted’ as a Thought Stopping Cliche
by Cindy Kunsman cross posted from her blog Under Much Grace All images by Cindy Kunsman at Under Much Grace and used with permission. Article is 4 pages long. I’d heard that phrase before, but even...
View ArticleDoes the Church Know What Love Really Is?
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal “If You are struggling with any area of [this] information it is your problem, not ours. If you feel a breakdown in trust and relationship it...
View ArticleA Call For “The Church” To Repent
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal Around this time last year, a policeman came knocking on my door, summoning me to a court conference two days hence. My eldest son, who was...
View ArticleMarry Your Toxic Spiritually Abusive Church
After going through some old links in a bookmarks folder I have been revisiting many people that NLQ has quoted extensively in the past. I was looking for links to a pretty terrible book review site we...
View ArticleThe Deception of the Spotlight Effect
by Cindy Kunsman The Spotlight Effect describes the misguided perception that more people are aware of us and watch us than is actually the case. As children, we believe that we are the center of the...
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