Who Am I in Christ? The Bible Tells Me How God Sees Me In Lecrae’s song “Dirty Water” he points out the damage done by telling, being told, and believing lies about who we are: “Worthless, worthless, 400 years we done heard that My family… Russ Meek May 6, 2020
ERLC God is Father to the Fatherless, So Christians Must Love the Fatherless among Us The United States Census Bureau reports that more than one out of every four children in the United States lives without a father—biological, adoptive, or step—in their home. Children without fathers are at a substantially higher… Russ Meek March 22, 2020
I Was Wrong. I’m No White Knight I’m a white, middle class man. I attend a church of mostly white, middle class people. My church is located in the middle of a very poor, almost exclusively black neighborhood. The… Russ Meek February 28, 2020
Sojourners The Burden of Safety Doesn’t Lie with the Abused On Friday, Megan Twohey, one of the journalists who broke the story about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged abuse, released an interview she conducted with Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s criminal defense attorney. As the interview came to… Russ Meek February 13, 2020
You’re Home Now: Hannah Kate Williams’s Story of Abuse and Hope in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Hannah Kate Williams is a survivor of sexual abuse. Her daughter, Evie Ruth, is a victim of sexual abuse. She would be twelve years old now, but she never had the chance… Russ Meek February 11, 2020
Sojourners Inside the Fight to Keep an Abuse Apologist off the Church Stage “If you stand up to sexual abuse, you must remain standing,” Susan Codone recently told me. She’d said the same thing on Twitter in response to news that Paige Patterson, former president of Southwestern… Russ Meek February 7, 2020
Sojourners Why Social Media Is a Last Resort for Survivors of Clergy Abuse The church shouldn’t need a hashtag to shame it into taking sexual violence seriously. Abuse survivors shouldn’t have to look to Twitter and Facebook and blogs to find a place to belong, to be believed, and to give voice to their trauma. Russ Meek January 18, 2020
Religion News Service The SBC’s Same-Sex Abuse Problem If our zeal for a biblical view of sexuality outshines our desire to protect the people in our churches, something has gone very, very wrong. Russ Meek December 18, 2019
Red Letter Christians How the Misuse of Matthew 18 Bullies Abuse Survivors Into Silence Matthew 18:15-17 is inadequate — and becomes itself a tool for abuse — when it is used to bully abuse survivors into silence. Russ Meek December 16, 2019
