In the wake of recent events in Christian sub-culture, I am grateful to have guest blogger Dani Ross share how wrong theology leads to destructive consequences.  I’m not going to assume to know what exactly brings a man to find pleasure in the sight of a black-and-blue-faced woman whom he instructed to endure violence at the hands of her own husband.   “I hope you’re happy,” she said to him.  And he responded, “Yes ma’am, I’m happy.” Honestly, something breaks inside of me when I think on it too much.  But maybe it’s not thinking about the reality of this toxic teaching that has brought us to where we are today. This type…

When Mary DuMuth was a child, the sitter paid to care for her neglected her. As a result, she suffered unspeakable abuse at the hands of some teen boys who “took her out to play” every afternoon. Mary spoke up about being repeatedly raped, and the sitter promised to tell her mother. Yet the nightmare continued. So for years Mary thought her mother knew and did nothing; only later did Mary learn the babysitter had kept her lips sealed tight. Through the ministry of Young Life, Mary came to know Christ during her teen years. And she began to heal. Yet when she married, she found some of the trauma came…