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Tag: Spiritual abuse

  • Trust After Spiritual Abuse

    I’ve been a churchgoer for my entire life, from conception up until now. Calling myself a Christian is something of a later thing, but I am careful now to never assume that a churchgoer is a Christian. Although my faith and the way I follow Jesus has changed, I consider it one of my life’s…

  • Coping With the Time

    As a Canadian, it is almost all I can do to bear with the constant breaking news over who is doing what to whom– especially in the form of the current administration to our south. “51st state”, tariffs on, tariffs off, a “call to arms” from our leaders telling us not to buy from or…

  • Critiquing Your Faith – Or What’s Left of It

    In recent years, there has been much noise around the “deconstruction” of your faith, primarily in Evangelical Christian circles. To be sure, it’s a long and painful process to recognize that the way certain religious practices (and by “religious”, I mean those ways of being that are meant to create connection and community, not the…

  • What I Mean By “White Supremacy”and What to Do About It

    This may sound like a strange way to start blogging once more—especially on a site more closely linked to my practice as a psychologist—but I’m beginning here because something I’ve said and written in other contexts requires clarification. If I am taking on the role of a psychologist who cares for and applies insights from…