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
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
Biblical Recorder The Line Isn’t Fuzzy. Youth Pastors Shouldn’t Date Youth The legal age of consent should not blur our vision on these issues. No youth pastor should “date” or engage in any sort of sexual relationship with any person under their care. Russ Meek November 27, 2019
Sojourners Jules Woodson: “Andy Savage Has Disqualified Himself from the Pulpit” Given the SBC leadership’s silence on this issue, Woodson would like to see the rank-and-file members of Southern Baptist churches raise their voices in protest. Russ Meek November 14, 2019
Religion News Service Was Bathsheba Raped? Yes, and Why That Matters Ideology drives action, and for many evangelicals a skewed perception of power dynamics and sexual violence is at the wheel. Russ Meek November 1, 2019
For the Church The Bible Told Us Every Girl Was Sour? The theological problem with purity culture and how we talk about the plague of pornography is that it sexualizes women (and men, though I think to a lesser extent). Russ Meek October 30, 2019
