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Reflections from those who've been there.
Sharon Clements
4 min read
Heights
I remember riding my first roller coaster like it was yesterday. I was probably 11 or 12, visiting Six Flags with our youth group, and I...
Sharon Clements
5 min read
Never Too Late
There are two things you need to know about my friend, Becky. She listens to Jesus, and she’s a phenomenal cook. Pies are her specialty,...
Connie Angel Sanders
2 min read
Twisted Reality
Have you ever suddenly found yourself "upside down" with a controlling leader? Maybe you asked a question you shouldn't have asked or...
Connie Angel Sanders
2 min read
Rescued
Ten years ago the Lord broke through the darkness to bring our co-founders and many alongside them into the light. The potency of the...
Sharon Clements
2 min read
Seen
I hung up the phone, my heart breaking over the story I’d just heard. Another woman. Another daughter, wife, mother. Another congregant...
Connie Angel Sanders
3 min read
We Had Hoped
Over the course of three Sundays in the last month, in two different churches across two states, I heard three different speakers teach...
The Way Home
1 min read
Healing from Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse (Featured Podcast)
In this podcast with Julie Roys of the Roys Report, Sharon Clements, Co-founder of The Way Home, shares about the tender, sometimes...
Connie Angel Sanders
2 min read
Necessary Endings
Life is full of endings. Some expected, some jarring—the loss of a job, a friendship, a marriage. Even when an ending is right or full of...
Larry Boss, M.Div.
3 min read
A Lament
“But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center...
The Way Home
1 min read
A Statement
We at The Way Home are deeply saddened and outraged by the abuse that predicated recent charges brought against a former pastor in...
David Pooler, PhD
5 min read
Never an Affair
I’m struck by the frequency that some Christians label any sexual activity between a married pastor and an adult congregant who is not...
Jacque Adkins
3 min read
Speaking of Sin: The Importance of Right-Naming
In recent years, the evangelical community has witnessed a troubling trend of minimizing the gravity of sin committed by influential...
Jacque Adkins
1 min read
Used Car Salesman
We walked away from you after that first meeting Certain That we had found our calling To be a part of something that mattered. You sold...
Connie Angel Sanders
3 min read
Abuse is a Big Word
Abuse is a big word. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. Words are funny things, holding nuance and implication, and changing...
Sharon Clements
3 min read
Is This How Jesus Would Treat Me?
I did not want to believe I’d been abused. The church I’d been a part of had been compelling and life changing. So many people had come...
Chris Adkins
3 min read
Who Are You Following?
After coming to Christ at a young age alone in my room reading the gospels, I was fortunate to have been discipled as part of a college...
Sharon Clements
2 min read
What Are You Hiding?
What do you keep hidden? Maybe it’s the stack of papers you swoop out of sight when people come over, or the plans you have for a...
Jacque Adkins
2 min read
Storm Warning
Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Katrina. In these three hurricanes alone, an estimated 338 billion dollars worth of damage was...
Sharon Clements
3 min read
For Those Stuck in Darkness
Pain is a warning light that tells us that something is wrong. It’s a light we should welcome, but all too often, we don’t want the bad news
Jacque Adkins
2 min read
One Simple Question
It was a simple question. But it was one I had not dared to ask myself. What are you doing? On the surface, I could answer that question...
Jesus calls us to be light in the darkness, exposing those things that are not like God no matter where we find them, even in those organizations we greatly love.
- Diane Langberg, PhD
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