A victim of spiritual abuse – but not at the hands of Fletcher or Smyth – shares her firsthand experience:
I am a victim of spiritual abuse. It’s taken 15 years after the events to recognise this – and only then because of recent events.
The pastor’s dear long-suffering wife confided in me that he was, effectively, having an affair with a deacon’s wife, spending each weekly ‘day off’ from pastoral work with this other woman.
Why reputation is prioritised over protecting victims
In the four years of writing for Evangelicals Now, the published responses to my articles have been few and far …