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Lori Anne Thompson on Truth, Trauma & Advocacy

The Roys Report

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The Dynamics of Clerical Abuse

All forms of abuse actually carry really similar characteristics. So you don't have to be abused in a church to experience a spiritual wound. The main difference between clergy abuse and abuse of a trusted other is that it conflates abuse with Christ or abuse with God. But when you're harmed in the name of hope, then there's no hope indeed.

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