30 okt. 2020

that the church isn’t safe

At an untold number of Christian churches and institutions, according to Washington Post, works the silence on sexual abuse is deafening. Statistically, evangelical pastors rarely mention the issue from the pulpit.

According to research from the evangelical publishing company LifeWay, 64 percent of pastors said they talk about sexual violence once a year, or even less than that. Pastors drastically underestimate the number of victims in their congregations; a majority of them guessed in the survey that 10 percent or less might be victims. 

But in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 4 women (women make up approximately 55 percent of evangelicals) and 1 in 9 men have been sexually abused. There is no evidence suggesting those numbers are lower inside the church.

Immanuel Baptist Church faced a choice, the same one before many American churches today: Face the sin in their midst and make the church a place that follows the biblical command to care for the powerless and victimized — or avoid the disruption and churn out another generation of silenced victims who learn that the church isn’t safe.

I know that internal investigations, etc., have as much effect to it as with corruption, that is, nothing. Only publicity and -> the loss of reputation and -> the rule of law, will do it well. No matter a long time ago I got a sexual abuser caught red-handed, dead-bang, in one Camphill  Movement place -  someone must had been stopped this abuse there.

Later I threatened that I give it all to the public media. I put an end to the exploitation there.



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