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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

#105: Out of the Shadows (re-air)

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Authentic Intimacy®

Relationships, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Church should be a safe place. But far too often church is an easy environment for pedophiles and abusers to ruin lives, and destroy the faith of those they prey upon. In this Java with Juli meet two strong survivors of church leadership abuse as they discuss the signs and settings that may put you, or your children, at risk.

Guests: Joy Rider & Jo McGuire

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to Job with Julie, and I want you to think back a month or two ago when Larry Nasser was in the news.

0:07.7

You probably remember that he was a physician that was working with Olympic gymnasts and was just brought up on a number of horrendous charges.

0:19.2

And if you follow that news story, you'll remember that there was a brave woman, Rachel

0:25.0

Den Hollander, who was one of the victims of Larry Nasser.

0:29.2

And when she got a chance to speak to him in court, this was all over the national news,

0:34.2

she actually shared the gospel.

0:35.7

She talked about forgiveness, how Jesus forgives her,

0:39.6

and that she wanted to extend that forgiveness and grace to this man who had harmed her so horribly.

0:46.1

And if that caught your attention, you may or may not know that Christianity Today interviewed Rachel about her story.

0:54.4

And when I read what Rachel said in Christianity Today, it just broke my heart because I think

0:59.3

this is something that we see here at Authentic Inimacy.

1:02.9

Rachel, who is a strong Christian, said that it deeply regrets her to admit this, but that

1:08.3

church is one of the worst places that you can go for help

1:11.7

when there's a sexual assault.

1:14.0

And she's using the opportunity that she has right now as a public figure in the media

1:18.4

to bring attention to the fact that not only do we have to address sexual assault

1:22.9

that's happening in the workplace and the world at large, but also what's happening

1:27.4

within the evangelical church. And that's why we are workplace and the world at large, but also what's happening within the evangelical church.

1:29.3

And that's why we are re-earing a conversation

1:32.3

that we originally recorded a few years ago

1:35.3

with a ministry called Out of the Shadows.

1:37.3

And the co-founders of that ministry are Joy Evans Rider and Joe McGuire.

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