If you are a Christian and also an advocate, sometimes you have a strained relationship with the Church. It is a struggle borne by many. GRACE Board Member Victor Veith explains why.

Something is wrong when churches protect perpetrators and marginalize victims. Mary DeMuth shares what happens when churches prefer predators, cover up sexual abuse, and demand victims forgive and forget.

Boz Tchividjian provides his analysis of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ohio v. Clark.

The mishandling of sibling sexual abuse disclosures in the Duggar family has brought to the surface a painful topic that most of us would prefer to pretend doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, that is not an option. 

Sexual offenders have perfected a grand deception that sadly seems to work all too well inside faith communities.

A Proposal for a Federal International Mandated Reporting Law

A disturbingly common legal maneuver is utilized by attorneys across the United States which ends up discouraging victims from coming forward, David Clohessy explains.

Some concluding thoughts on April’s annual Sexual Abuse Awareness Month.

The most profound theological questions posed often come from survivors of abuse. In this article, GRACE Board Member Victor Vieth writes what happened when a survivor of abuse asked him a haunting question

Why do so many churches fail to do the right thing when they learn that one of their own has been accused of sexual abuse? All too often it’s because the victimized are repeatedly overshadowed by the need to protect a “righteous” reputation.

In the past 20 years, I have come across many situations where folks  have found themselves conflicted about whether to say something after observing unsettling behavior between an adult and a child.  Unfortunately, too many have decided it’s best to remain silent. 

Too often attitudes on foreign policy are imbued with ethnocentric undertones. We rightly mourn the loss of life in the womb and the death of U.S. soldiers, but often we are not moved by the massive collateral damage of war overseas.

We have witnessed a seemingly new boldness to communicate incredibly wounding and cruel words to victims of abuse.  In his latest piece, Boz Tchividjian shares how words matter to a survivors.

Re-examining the value of human life—at all stages.

Examining the crisis of culpability at Hillsong Church when pastor Brian Houston failed to report his predator father, Frank Houston, to authorities.

Michael Reagan and Jerome Elam, both survivors of childhood sexual abuse, write about the unique dynamics and devastating stigmas.

Taking a page from the popular Netflix series, Boz Tchividjian lays out how “The Underwood Scheme” and how it would look when deployed against the vulnerable in a church setting.

Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis explains how the Black church can directly confront child abuse, beginning within its own community.