About a dozen of us sat in the classroom. Chairs had been moved around, not as a neat circle but turned so we could see each other. As psychologists-in-training, we were talking about clients — well, not about specific clients but types of clients and their problems. Who did we… Read More »The Soul Wound of Childhood Sexual Abuse
I’m convinced that the Christian understanding of all things related to human sexuality has been fundamentally and possibly fatally flawed for over 1500 years. While the Bible itself is not preoccupied with human sexual proclivities, it didn’t take long for the Christian church to embrace pleasure-hating theologies aimed at controlling… Read More »Time to End Sex-Negative Theologies
Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea who the Duggar family was. To my surprise, it appears that many people in North America have been following this conservative Christian family. Further, the Duggar’s seem to be very influenctial among various Evangelical Christian lobbying groups. It seems that they… Read More »The Duggar’s: Abuse and Conservative Religion
It took me a long time to admit, but he was right. He was right about a lot of things. It often takes sons a long time to admit that their fathers’ were right all along. On this issue, it’s been a gradual process of moving from, “He doesn’t know… Read More »He Was Right All Along