recommended resources

Hearing these stories may stir more questions than answers. Here are a few resources if you’re interested in how to support, advocate, and respond to victims of abuse.

• Primer on Abuse: “What to Watch For” specifically on the abuse expression unique to religious spaces, by Hagar's Voice

• A simple guide of best practices when “Walking With Survivors”, by Hagar's Voice

• Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, by Margaret Heffernan

• Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church, by Dr. Diane Langberg

• When the Church Harms God's People, by Dr. Diane Langberg

• A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing, by Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer