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Friday 9th June 2023 Modesty/Purity culture is a terrible thing for a number of reasons. It is controlling, telling women what they can and can’t wear, where they can and can’t go, who they can be friends with, who they can talk to when, what they can do. This isn’t the freedom Christ came to …
17th June 2022 A pastor in `Texas has sparked outrage recently by saying gay people should be lined up and shot in the back of the head. Reading the commentary on this on the internet I noted how quick those who believe that being gay is sinful were to distance themselves from this guy, with …
Wednesday 31st May, 2023 Imagine the strength it must take to smile at your torturer, to step outside your front door and go about your day like everything is fine when it is not.Imagine how brave you must be, to go back to the place where you know you will be hurt, really hurt, but …
Tuesday 30th May, 2023 I’m not scientist, but one of the few things I remember from high school physics is the law of the conservation of energy. Science tells us that energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transferred or converted from one form of energy to another. In this blog post I suggested …
Friday 26th May, 2023 The last few descriptions of love all go together really, love bears, believes, hopes and endures. We are presented with a picture of love not as one that puts up with abuse, as many of us may have been taught to believe, but as one wholly committed to ‘pulling together’ in …
Monday 22nd May, 2023 If you’re a Christian and you’re following the example of Jesus then yes, yes you do. Moreover you should want to. Submission is a dirty word in our culture, misused by abusers, sexualised by the porn industry and generally misunderstood. But Jesus submitted and God wants us to do so too, …
Friday 19th May, 2023 There’s a reason I chose Always Hopeful as the name of my domestic abuse recovery programme.I thought I was hopeful when I was married.I hoped he’d be in a good mood each day, I hoped he’d be too tired to want sex when he came to bed at night, I hoped …
15th April, 2022 (Easter weekend) It was us who killed him.Not God.God did not require the death of Jesus. No wonder domestic abuse is rife in our churches.If the church is the Bride we turn the Bridegroom into an abusive husband.We portray God as abusive so is it any wonder we condone, commit or expect …
Tuesday 16th May, 2023 I say I’m going to stay away from controversial topics like abortion but then I hear a show like the show I heard on Premier Christian Radio this morning that really gets my hackles up, and besides, I don’t think we really can talk about domestic abuse without talking about abortion. …
Monday 15th May, 2023 Really? Like that the earth is flat? Or that horoscopes are real? Or that my abuser really is sorry and really wants to change? God doesn’t want us to be naive, Proverbs 14:15 tells us “The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps” we’re also warned to exercise discernment, …