Boz Tchividjian explains three narratives that are most common among offending leaders.

Why do so many victims remain silent? In over twenty years of confronting abuse, Boz Tchividjian shares what he has learned about the silence that imprisons many survivors. 

A survivor of horrific child abuse and abduction while living in a Christian home, David Linwah shares what he has wanted the Church to hear for so long.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to minister to everyone in church including sex offenders, but we should never do so in isolation from child protection professionals or in ignorance of the harm done to their victims. Simon Bass explains why.

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. 

The most important voices to speak into the issue of abuse are those who have been victimized.   These heroes can teach all of us so much if we simply take the time to turn down our own voices so that we can truly listen to what they have to say. One such survivor shares her personal experience of being sexually assaulted in her home.

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

In this interview with memoirist Trudy Metzger, the truth is revealed about how the deep physical, emotional, and spiritual pains caused by childhood trauma cannot obscure a loving God who crosses the road and gets down into the dirt with the hurting and brutalized.

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.

There is increasing pressure to be “radical” for Jesus, but what does this mean? Is this a good thing? Boz interviews a young man who had bought into this “radical” Christianity to learn more. What is revealed is a cautionary tale that is worth exploring.

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.