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
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
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
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
Servants of Grace Pastoral Care in the Digital Age If you are struggling with digital communication, I encourage you to see it not as drudgery but rather as an opportunity to extend just a little bit of God’s grace and love to those you’re emailing or tweeting with. Russ Meek October 7, 2019
Servants of Grace I Opposed Him to His Face As we engage believers in the digital world, where it is quite easy to spew vitriol over minor differences, let’s make sure that we major on the majors and minor on the minors. Russ Meek September 30, 2019
