Rise and Shine Movement

10/13/2026

Great job, Gentle Giants Academy!

07/14/2026

Wisdom.

If your church wants to be safe...

04/12/2026

She has a great point here! We must allow our children to follow their gut and teach them what it feels like in their bodies.

04/02/2026

For those who follow who find healing in the teachings of The Bible or are curious, please checkout Lisa Radcliff's new book, "God Is for Me: A Biblical Character Study of God's Heart for the Sexually Harmed." Lisa doesn't take abuse or the healing of harm lightly, nor does she white-wash justice or forgiveness. We are grateful for her voice!

God Is for Me: A Biblical Character Study of God's Heart for the Sexually Harmed

03/31/2026

Information we should all know and hope we never need.

12/31/2025

Sadly, I witnessed this after being told in my prevention training that it would happen. People will surround the perpetrator, not the survivor, in families, in organizations, in courtrooms, and, yes, in places of worship. And that's the most unloving response for all involved.

I watched a video where a pastor was confronted by one of his victims.

And then something painfully familiar happened.
People rushed the stage.
They surrounded him.
They laid hands on him.
They prayed for him.

Meanwhile, the woman who had just named her harm stood alone.
No prayer.
No care.
No protection.
No ministry offered to her.

This is not an isolated moment.
It’s a pattern. It is one that I can name situation after situation to you that has followed this pattern.

When abuse is exposed, churches often move quickly to comfort the pastor and slowly, if at all, to care for the person who was harmed. Our desire to see beloved leaders, pastors, and Christian celebrities “restored” often comes at the cost of truth and justice.

But here’s the hard reality:
You cannot restore someone to a position they have disqualified themselves from without retraumatizing the victim.

Restoration language that bypasses accountability is not grace.
It’s harm.

Victims do not need to watch a congregation rally around their abuser while they are left unseen, unsupported, and spiritually abandoned.

They deserve better.
They deserve care.
They deserve protection.
They deserve a church that centers their healing, not the reputation of the one who hurt them.

If your first instinct is to protect the pastor,
and not the person who was harmed,
something is deeply wrong.