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Emotional Abuse IS Physical Abuse More precisely: emotional abuse can become physical abuse in the body. The body processes emotional abuse much like it does physical abuse, according to the book, THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE. It has long been known that trauma does not...
87 Ways "The Body Keeps the Score" After Trauma Trauma is not only remembered in the mind; it is carried in the body. In the work of two of the best-known trauma physicians, Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., and Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., trauma appears not merely as an...
Hosea Is Prophetic Symbolism, Not a Marriage Manual When I post about some divorces being biblical, I get comments such as this one: “Read the Book of Hosea,” as if Hosea’s bizarre story in the Bible settles the divorce debate. But Hosea and Gomer's marriage is not a...
Divorce Is Good Sometimes Most of us wish divorce were never necessary. I certainly do. Marriage was meant to be loving, undefiled, protective, and lifelong. But sometimes a covenant that was meant for protection becomes a place of bondage. And when that happens,...
7 Ways the Epstein Files That Can Teach Us to Protect Ourselves from Predators One of the most disturbing claims I’ve seen is that Epstein studied human nature deliberately—not to understand people in order to love them, serve them, or protect them, but to manipulate...
Open Letter to Russell Moore: Divorce as God’s Protection of Abused and Betrayed Spouses This is an updated version of the email I sent to Russell Moore two weeks ago. Dear Russell Moore, I’ve followed you for many years, and I’m writing as someone who has often...
Do Children Resent the Parent Who Leaves a Destructive Marriage? What Two Community Polls Can—and Cannot—Tell Us We've always been told they do. But these two polls suggest the story is more complicated when there's abuse or betrayal. Many Christians are told that if...
What Wayne Grudem Overstates in Judith Wallerstein Thirty years ago, in 1996, Wayne Grudem did an analysis of Judith Wallerstein’s second book, Second Chances, one of three books she had already published that discussed her longitudinal 25-year study on divorce and...
Wayne Grudem Changed His Mind on Abuse, Divorce, and Remarriage Dr. Wayne Grudem’s acceptance of divorce and remarriage after abuse is revolutionary precisely because he is Wayne Grudem. He is a pillar of conservative evangelical theology, not a liberal theologian....