We gave our lives to the church. Leaving the church was something we agonized over. After so much sacrifice, it hurts to just be dismissed as if we never counted.
Book Review—The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church Read More »
I am a victim of church abuse. As a poor and young church musician in the late 1990s, I was taken advantage of and guilt-tripped into serving to the point of exhaustion. You may blame my own stupidity for this, but no pastors actually took me aside to explain the concept of free grace. During
I am a victim of church abuse Read More »
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3FHMTAWHY&t=0&w=420&h=315] This is not Reformed polity. This is not sound exegesis. This is looking in the Bible for material to justify your bad behavior.
Driscoll goes all Nehemiah on their asses Read More »
Pearl: “Created To Need A Help Meet”
The Pearls out with a new how-to promoting abuse, no doubt…
Pearl: “Created To Need A Help Meet” Read More »
A lot has happened in the last year. I became a member of a mainline church, though we cannot attend very often with our little kids, and my wife’s disability—there simply isn’t enough time in the weekend for me to keep up with chores, and some Sundays my wife is just in so much pain
I Have Issues With… Read More »
Action news reported tonight that the coroner’s report was released today. The medical examiner confirmed Lydia Schatz died from rhabdomyolysis resulting from the torture and abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents, who whipped their children with 1/4″ plumbing supply line because it was endorsed by fundamentalist preacher Michael Pearl as the biblical
Note: these are updates from news outlets only, no inside information here. First, Paradise Post reports some new facts which were not previously published: 1) District Attorney Mike Ramsey says Kevin and Elizabeth “took turns” (previously we were told she held the children down). 2) Ramsey does not think a case against the Pearls “would
This is what Scripture says: Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; but whoever
Christians unite against child abuse Read More »
Butte County District Attorney Michael Ramsey revealed more details than have previously been described in the media in the Sacramento CBS affiliate’s newscast tonight, in a story that comes complete with props and dramatic reading. We now learn: Elizabeth allegedly held the girls down for “several hours” while Kevin beat them, hence the two being
Local DA provides more details to the big city reporters Read More »
“We do not teach ‘corporal punishment’ nor ‘hitting’ children,” Michael Pearl said, according to the Paradise Post. “If indeed these parents were abusive, and that has not yet been proven by the courts, it is regretful that our teachings were not able to turn them from their predisposition to abusive habits…” I think the quotes
Pearl still claims innocence, for himself and his followers Read More »