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Premature Forgiveness
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Dear Pope Francis: I want to commend you for owning the painful fact of sexual abuse of children by priests as part of your Good Friday comments. Lent is ...
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Black Press USA Speaks with Rev. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis on Rape in the Black Community
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Rev. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis spoke with Black Press USA about sexual assault, the Black community and the role of the church. Rev. Davis Ellis will present a ...
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How Many? How Long?
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This might sound like the start of a bad joke: What do a theologian (John Howard Yoder) and a comedian (Bill Cosby) have in common? More than you might ...
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The Work of Tikkun Olam: Repairing and Restoring the World
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There are two important stories this week within the Orthodox Jewish community in the U.S. The first is the conviction of Nechemya Weberman, a Hasidic Jew in ...
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Dear Pope: Happy New Year
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I was encouraged in early December by your announcement that you are convening a Vatican Commission on Child Sexual Abuse to help you address the needs of ...
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Southern Baptists: Yes, but . . .
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“One sexual predator in our midst is one too many,” said Morris Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention executive committee. “Sexual predators ...
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"No He Didn't..."
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Dear Pope Francis: Did you really say this in a recent interview? In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis acknowledged the ...
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#ChurchToo: Mennonite Church Eastern Canada
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Ten Denominations Respond to Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s Invitation to Engage #ChurchToo Movement
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Guest Blog: Hope in the Research #6
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In this blog post, Rev. James Evinger highlights some recent research trends, including the emergence of diverse frameworks for understanding sexual boundary ...
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Dear Pope: Deep Trouble
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I do wish you had called me. Now you are in deep trouble. I see that human rights lawyers have filed a complaint against you with the International Criminal ...
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Dear Archbishop: Please Clarify
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Dear Archbishop Gomez:
Kudos for doing something. In response to the release of the personnel files on clergy sexual abusers in the Archdiocese of Los ...
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Dear Cardinal Mahony
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I realize that you are soon to retire as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. I can only assume that you are exhausted from dealing with sexual abuse ...
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Dear Pope: Off Track Again?
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I realize it has been a bad week for you and the Vatican. First, the Belgian police raid the offices of the Belgian Council of Bishops and remove records of ...
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Statement on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on Child Sexual Abuse by Catholic Clergy
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300 priests. Thousands of children. A powerful institution. Decades of harm and betrayal.
It’s been almost twenty years since the first public ...
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Please Proclaim from the Housetops
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“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, ...
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Oprah and the Jesuits
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The Jesuits have settled a lawsuit brought by Alaska Native survivors for $50 million, the largest single settlement against a religious order. At least 110 ...
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Guest Blog: Pope's 'New' Approach Makes No Sense
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This guest blog by Mary Dispenza, NW Directory of SNAP, discusses the failures of the new Vatican policy on reporting sexual abuse.
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Dear Pope: It’s Me Again
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I’m still waiting for your call, but in the meantime, I’m quite happy to provide you with a free consultation because it’s so important that you get this ...
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Spotlight Discussion Guide
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GUEST BLOG: Dancing in the Darkness
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My friend Amy doesn’t do windows. Unless she happens to be working on a computer system using Microsoft. In that case, she’s an expert, on single PC’s or ...
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Sometimes We See Justice Made
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When national Protestant denominations meet, there is a lot of necessary but mundane business that goes on. But sometimes something very important occurs and ...
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“‘A Day of Reckoning and Justice’ for Abuse Victims”
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This was the front page headline that greeted me Saturday morning in my local paper, The Seattle Times. The quote is from Clarita Vargas, 51, of Tacoma, WA, ...
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“I listen . . .”
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The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, was recently interviewed on 60 Minutes, discussing his efforts since becoming Archbishop to address the sexual abuse ...
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E-Books: Healthy Boundaries 101 and 201 Workbooks
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To help trainers and students during these days of social distancing, we're releasing our Healthy Boundaries 101 and 201 workbooks as ebooks.
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National Research Study of Women Survivors of Clergy Misconduct
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Opportunity to Participate: Baylor University, in collaboration with Hope of Survivors and the Grant Me the Wisdom Foundation, has launched a research study on ...
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Time to Step Up to the Plate
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This is the letter sent to the Seattle University community following the announcement in the press of a settlement of $166 million with over 500 survivors of ...
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Guest Blog: Hope in the Research #7
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In this blog post, Rev. James Evinger highlights some recent research trends, including research in diverse religious communities and settings that have been ...
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A Tale of the Usual and the Unusual
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The story of Mohammad Abdullah Saleem of Elgin, IL, is not unlike that of a Catholic priest, a Protestant pastor, a Jewish rabbi, or a Buddhist teacher who has ...
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Dear Pope: It's Me Again
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Dear Pope:
It’s been a while since I wrote to you. Like many people around the world, I’ve been watching your tenure closely, particularly regarding the ...
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Finally, Some Justice Made
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Good news is hard to come by in the work to address sexual and domestic violence. But last week was a pretty good week.