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Upcoming TrainingTeaching Healthy Boundaries 101 & 201 [April 2019]
Apr 30, 2019
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May 01, 2019
April 30-May 1, 2019 in Chicago, IL. This course will equip trainers to teach Healthy Boundaries 101 & 201. It is designed for those persons designated by their judicatory or organization to train clergy and spiritual teachers about healthy boundaries. Read more... |
What's NewDomestic Abuse & the Church Conference: April 27, 2019Network Event: Saturday April 27, 2019 in Moulton, AL Read more... Safe & Healthy Churches TrainingThe Safe & Healthy Churches Training will take place this fall in the Hampton Roads-Yorktown, VA area. To receive information, please complete the registration form. Read more... |
Recent Blog Posts
Guest Blog: Hope in the Research, #3
Since 2008, FaithTrust generously has posted a continuing document I compile, Annotated Bibliography of Clergy Sexual Abuse and Sexual Boundary Violations in Religious Communities. Intended as extensive and broad, the Bibliography, as of the semi-annual update of November, 2018, includes 80+ additions. It is now 1,710 pages, excluding the Introduction. From the new entries, four themes which deserve attention are identified below.
Guest Blog: The Moment It Suddenly Became Personal
It was a special day. It was the day of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s funeral. It was going to be televised on a Saturday and I was poised to watch the funeral no matter how long the services lasted. I taped every channel I thought would be airing her funeral and basically cleared my day so that I could watch the funeral live and listen to all the deserving tributes in word and song from her family, friends, and professional colleagues. It would be a history making day.
Notes on Men’s Anger and Women’s Truth
The performance put on by Brett Kavanagh last week was a sterling display of white male privilege. Watching as his nomination to the Supreme Court was slipping from his fingers in the face of the credible testimony of Dr. Blasey Ford, his calculated response was to lash out at the “unfair” process. He got to do that with seeming impunity because he is a privileged white man.
